We all know how easy it is to create a Rails app, but what about when your app is ready for production? The first thing you need to do is to set up your server and install the proper libraries, so fire…
Continue Reading…RubySource is always looking for awesome talent to share their knowledge. If there’s a technique, tip, or approach you’d like to share, you should definitely get in touch. We’re currently looking for Rubyists that are motivated to share their knowledge with the…
Continue Reading…I’m not sure if there’s anything more intimidating than getting up in front of experts and saying your thing. Especially when you know so little. Here on RubySource, we have the .NET to Ruby and PHP to Ruby categories. But what if…
Continue Reading…Why Jekyll? As a Rubyist you’ll often see example code that starts like rails new blog and it is tempting. Many of us have gone down that rabbit hole because, as a programmer, it feels right to start from scratch and have…
Continue Reading…Padrino is a web framework, closely related to its cousin, the Sinatra web framework. It tries to offer the flexibility of development of Sinatra and a wide array of helpers, tools and add-ons of Rails. Padrino, Italian for “godfather”, is built on…
Continue Reading…If you’ve ever developed something using Ruby then you know it’s a blast to use. It flows well, reads well, and has lots of cool ways to get things done. Beyond the day-to-day APIs you might be used to, there lies a…
Continue Reading…In my last article, I started installing Rails, explaining some of the options that are available, and briefly identifying each of the gems that Rails uses. This week, we’ll finish covering the gems and discuss the bits of Rails that make up application generation.
Continue Reading…Last week we started working through the implementation of HAML, a popular templating language for HTML. We got through the parsing step, leaving the compile step to cover this week. If you haven’t read the previous article, I encourage you to do so now. This article will make a lot more sense that way
Continue Reading…With the recent release of HAML 3.1, I decided to venture into its depths to figure out what makes it tick. What beasts lurk in the bowels of a templating system?
Continue Reading…Our resident PHP developer Mal Curtis discusses a feature of Ruby that eases the management of repeated code. Read on to discover about Ruby’s mixins.
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