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A collection of 20 posts

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Using S3Mock with Rails for AWS S3 Connectivity

In my Rails apps, I'm frequently connecting to S3 to save or read resources. I had been connecting locally to AWS S3 in the DEV environment, and while this was ok, it meant I always had to be connected. Enter S3Mock, a project from Adobe. With S3Mock, I

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Rails Counter Cache Gotcha

Introduction Today I was attempting to use Rails’ counter cache feature to save on expensive queries. My model’s association is a has_many :through. I ran into issues on my first attempt but eventually came across the answer after beating my head against a wall for quite some time.

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Riding Rails - Building a Web App (Part 05)

Hello again and congrats! You’ve made it to the end of the series (Part 5) of Riding Rails. Today we’ll develop a details view for each job and wrap up the series. This series is just a taste of what you can do with Rails. Anyway, let’s

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Riding Rails - Building a Web App (Part 04)

Thanks for coming back, this is Part 4 of Riding Rails. Today we’ll be discussing routing, controllers, and views. These will finally bring our application to life. I’m going to try to keep this part short, but we have a lot to cover. Let’s get started! Missed

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Riding Rails - Building a Web App (Part 03)

Welcome back to Riding Rails, this is Part 3. In this part, we’ll be working with GitHub Jobs and persisting the information in our database. We’ll see how far we get today. I think there will at least be four parts to this series. I’m coding this

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Riding Rails - Building a Web App (Part 02)

Welcome back to Riding Rails, this is Part 2. In this installment, we’ll talk more about models and introduce testing. In case you missed it, check out Part 1 as this builds on what we started. We left off last time learning about migrations. We just scratched the surface

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Riding Rails - Building a Web App (Part 01)

Now that you have Ruby and Rails installed, let’s put Rails to work by creating a real application. In this post, we’ll build a job search application. We’ll utilize GitHub Jobs as our initial data source, but the idea behind this app is to aggregate different job

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Starting With Rails

In my last post I walked you through installing Ruby on your machine, be it a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer. If you remember, I planned to help my developer friend set up Rails on his machine. So with Ruby set up, you’re ready to install Rails. Let’s

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Ember.js - Articles You Can't Miss

There’s been a lot of activity in the Ember.js world over the past few months in the shift to 2.0 and beyond. Because of this, there have been many excellent articles on the web relating to Ember. I’d like to point out just a few of

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Bring Rails to ASP.NET MVC With Restful Routing

When I’m working with ASP.NET MVC, I find myself wanting to do things “the Rails way.” There are a lot of excellent conceptions/conventions in Rails where I think ASP.NET MVC could really learn something. One thing I really dislike about ASP.NET MVC is the way

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ActiveRecord Queries - Drop the Question Marks

You learn something new everyday! Of course it’s in the documentation, but it’s easy to overlook features. Background As you may or may not know, ActiveRecord lets you specify conditions in a multitude of ways. Take the first example from the docs: class User < ActiveRecord::Base def

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Ruby Beauty – Rendering a Rails Partial for a Collection

Continuing with my exploration of Ruby on Rails as a .NET guy, here’s an awesome example of Convention over Configuration at work. I decided to add bite size snippets of some of the cool things I encountered in Ruby and Rails. If you are interested in more, see my

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Ruby Beauty – Rails and Time Zones

Continuing with my exploration of Ruby on Rails as a .NET guy, here’s an awesome example of Convention over Configuration at work. I decided to add bite size snippets of some of the cool things I encountered in Ruby and Rails. If you are interested in others, see my

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Ruby Beauty – Method Naming Conventions

Continuing with my exploration of Ruby as a .NET guy, here’s another example of Ruby’s expressive syntax in action. I decided to add bite size snippets of some of the cool things I encountered in Ruby and Rails. If you are interested in more, see my other Ruby

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ActiveSupport Singularize Problem

I just happened to encounter a problem with the ActiveSupport inflector in my Rails app. Here’s the problem: words that end in ess seem to be an issue. For example: 'dress'.singularize # => 'dres' 'business'.singularize # => 'busines' 'address'

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Ruby Beauty – Optional Parentheses on Method Calls

Continuing with my exploration of Ruby as a .NET guy, here’s another example of Ruby’s expressive syntax in action. I decided to add bite size snippets of some of the cool things I encountered in Ruby and Rails. If you are interested in more, see my other Ruby

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Installing Ruby on Rails on Windows

So it’s not like this doesn’t exist elsewhere on the ‘net, but in case you stumbled upon one of my other Ruby on Rails posts and I caught your interest, here’s how to get started developing Rails apps on Windows. If you’re a little resistant to

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Ruby on Rails Shared Hosting Mongrel Issues

I have had just about nothing but issues getting my Rails application running on my shared host. I’m not going to mention the company since they have been somewhat helpful, however I’m not thrilled with them. I don’t want to give them any good or bad press

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Ruby on Rails Shared Hosting Gem Issue

I recently signed up on a shared hosting plan for playing around with Ruby on Rails apps. I finally had an app roughly together, and I wanted to test out my deployment using Capistrano. I was able to configure my deploy.rb file so everything uploaded correctly, and figured that

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My Affair with Ruby on Rails

As I’m sure most of you know, I’m a hardcore C#/.NET guy. The majority of my work as been on the web, and I’ve been using ASP.NET since the earliest betas. ASP.NET’s profound effect on web development is still going strong to this