Posted by Daniel Butler
Wed, 03 May 2006 13:41:00 GMT
David A. Black is releasing a new book entitled Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers, which will help you take your Ruby skills to the next level of zen while working within the Rails framework. He writes, ”Ruby for Rails helps Rails developers achieve Ruby mastery. Each chapter deepens your Ruby knowledge and shows you how it connects to Rails. You’ll gain confidence working with objects and classes and learn how to leverage Ruby’s elegant, expressive syntax for Rails application power. And you’ll become a better Rails developer through a deep understanding of the design of Rails itself and how to take advantage of it.”
Read on for a short review.
Book Home Page at Manning Publications
Order Book from Amazon.com
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Posted in Ruby on Rails | Tags book, rails, ruby | 3 comments
Posted by Daniel Butler
Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:28:00 GMT
Camping is a micro—nay! nano— development framework for web-connected applications, like blogs,
to do lists, or other teeny utilities. Version 1.4 is out, and why the lucky stiff nourishes our collective intellect with this:
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Posted in Ruby, Programming | Tags camping, framework, ruby | no comments
Posted by Daniel Butler
Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:36:00 GMT
DevTower is “used to synchronize the development of Ruby On
Rails applications with developers working simultaniously
on multiple systems with Subversion.” It enforces certain group-development practices which help protect your schema and data from renegade developers or commit mistakes.
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Posted in Ruby on Rails, Programming | Tags collaboration, database, development, ruby | no comments
Posted by Daniel Butler
Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:26:00 GMT
If you would like ISO 8601 time and date formatting by default in your Ruby on Rails application, add the following code to your environment.rb file:
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_
FORMATS.update(:default => '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions::DATE_
FORMATS.update(:default => '%Y-%m-%d')
Posted in Programming, Ruby on Rails | Tags rails, ruby, standards | 1 comment
Canoe on Sandbar, Coldwater Creek, Florida (November 2003)
