I’ve started learning Rails and Ruby 3 years ago now, and now all my side projects are made in RoR.
I’ll be ready soon to release my third rails application, but having launched earlier this year serialcooking.com I’ve learn a lot on good RoR good practice in terms of development, deployment and maintenance.
I just wanted to [...]
So that’s it, you want to start development with Ruby on Rails, but you don’t know where to start.
The good thing is Ruby on Rails has a very clever and smart community, and you can find lots of documentation on the web.
Here is quick summary on where to start.
Books
If you really want to learn Ruby [...]
First time I wanted to use Jquery with Ruby on Rails I had some difficulties understanding how it can works.
Sure, you can easily use Jrails, that’ll brings you RJS helpers with Jquery, but I quite like the unobstrusive way, so Jrails is not (for me) the best solutions.
Let’s code together
What do we want?
We are going [...]
After having released www.serialcooking.com, I needed to do something just for me (I work on serialcooking with Nathalie).
This monday, I started a web implementation of Tweetdeck, and even if it’s now finished now, it goes very quickly.
I’ve used twitter_auth, and worked on it only 2 nights currently, but I want to realease it as soon [...]
It was the big things weeks ago, but I didn’t had time to test it. Twitter_auth, allows you to user the twitter authentication on you application. And it’s really sweet!.
Let’s do a small implementation together.
Step 1: Prepare your development box
Because Twitter doesn’t allow the callback parameter anymore, you’ll need to setup your workstation.
I recommend to [...]
Today I’ve played with twitter_auth, and I must admit it’s really sweet.
As I leave for a camping trip this afternoon, I’ll not be able to write a tutorial on how to setup you development box, but I’ll do it on Monday.
You can just check my source code on github. (You’ll need to add the database.yml [...]
After resintalling my workstation on Ubuntu Jaunty (for using EXT4), I had to reinstall my development softwares.
Using Giantrobot 2009 Rubyit’s guide to Mac Os development as a guideline for this post, I’ll present here my current Linux configutation for Ruby development.
Also opinionated (Gedit over Netbeans), this configuration suit all my need for developing everyday. (And [...]
These day, sun come out on Bristol, it’s warm and lovely, and with this one came some neat ideas.
First of all, I’m currently working on the brand new serialcooking design, under the KISS mantra. Hope it’ll know the success we want. If you want to follow the serialcooking development process, you can add the serialcooking [...]
Hi everyone,
I haven’t updated this blog since a while, but I’ll make my best to keep it up-to-date now.
First of all
Well, I now it’s a bit late, but in France it’s not unusual to give our Best Wishes until the end of January, so Happy New Year to everyone.
What’s new ?
Since the last post, we [...]
Rails rumble, this competition where Ruby on Rails developers were invited to code a web application in 48 Hours, is now over. Since today 00:00 GMT precisely.
I participated this year, and managed to develop a personal stretch reminder, called Sheep Fit. You can visit the application for the beta use here. The [...]