One of the ideas put forward at the recent Summit Awesome Manchester Hackathon was put forward by Tom Oakley for a simple Content Management System that used Markdown. The idea didn’t get selected as one of the Hackathon projects, but I thought…
Continue Reading…At the recent Summit Awesome Hackathon in Manchester, my team were working on a web app that updated a user’s bio on various social networks in one place. This meant getting down and dirty with various social network APIs (not a pretty…
Continue Reading…I’m really pleased to announce that my book Jump Start Sinatra has just been published in electronic format. The book is small, which is fitting because Sinatra is too (but perfectly formed!). The idea is the same as with all the books…
Continue Reading…When it comes to web development, Sinatra is amazingly flexible. Unlike Rails, it isn’t opinionated in the slightest and basically lets you make all the design decisions. It does have some conventions, such as automatically looking for view templates in the ‘views’…
Continue Reading…While I’ve been working on my little book about Sinatra, I’ve picked up a few helper methods that Sinatra provides. Some of these I already knew about, but hadn’t really used much and some I didn’t even know about. Sinatra has a…
Continue Reading…Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t written so much on RubySource lately. The reason for this is that all of my time has been taken up writing a brand new book all about Sinatra! A few months ago, the…
Continue Reading…In the last article, we managed to build an app that allowed users to show off their HTML, CSS and JavaScript skills by creating ‘riddles’ – small snippets of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. As an added bonus it also allowed users to…
Continue Reading…JSFiddle is a site that’s been around for a while now. It allows you to create a ‘fiddle’ which is basically a self contained page of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. These can be used to show off a particular technique or bug…
Continue Reading…The flash is a handy little helper method in Rails that lets you store information between requests. When your application processes a request, it usually ends by redirecting to another url, which generates another request. The flash is a hash-like object that…
Continue Reading…A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about how I rapidly built my personal site using Sinatra. While I was building the site I started thinking about the best way to add JavaScript files to the pages. After playing with…
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