Building authentication for applications is a run of the mill task we have all encountered at some point or another. In the past, most developers would have reached into their tool belt and pulled out restful authentication. Lately, a new kid on…
Continue Reading…We’ve finally arrived at the moment of the map. For the last several articles in the Loccasions series, I have promised things like “in the next post we will deal with the map” and “I will lower taxes,” and I have not…
Continue Reading…Twitter Bootstrap is a great way to quickly build a very polished web site. By now, we’ve all seen Twitter Bootstrap – it’s a great CSS and Javascript library open sourced by Twitter that makes it easy to produce a very polished…
Continue Reading…In this post, I want to finally get the Occasions MVC sequence done. This is the seventh post in the series, and I thought we’d be farther by now. Those responsible for our less-than-expected progress have been sacked. First, however, let’s make…
Continue Reading…On a day like any other, I was scanning through my Twitter feed searching for knowledge and inspiration. Although I didn’t know it yet, this day of Tweet Fishing would prove fruitful and change the direction of Loccasions forever. (You should imagine…
Continue Reading…Our last post flushed out the Events model and created a very basic home page. Hopefully, by the end of this post, we will be able to add, modify, and delete events from our user home page. CRUDdy Events Unless you’ve just…
Continue Reading…In our last post, we ended with very basic authentication working. However, we are faking out the events_path in our sign_in spec, which is where we’ll start. A successful sign-in redirects to the user events page which, presumably, has a list of…
Continue Reading…In the last post, we finished our first user story. That user story was pretty simple, but it flushed out the design of our home page. The next user story, As an administrator, I want to invite users to Loccasions is not…
Continue Reading…In the last post, we ended with our application structure. In this post, we’ll start with our first user story As an unregistered user, I want to see the home/landing page. There are a few things to point out in this short…
Continue Reading…Up to this point in the Rails Deep Dive series, we’ve focused on digging down into the entrails of the framework, attempting to uncover some of the ways that Rails accomplishes its magic. Going forward, I want to create a Rails 3.1…
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