This post marks the first in a series to help you start from nothing and end with a Rails application. Although there are many posts/series on this subject, I feel like basic Rails tutorials, especially in the wake of Rails 3.1 changes,…
Continue Reading…Continuing from my last post about RVM, this time we’ll install Rails. Again, this series attempts to give you a bit of a deeper dive into getting started with Rails, so we will go through some of the options available when first creating your world-changing Rails application, as well as the gems that are installed along with Rails.
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…In this installment of our deep dive into an introduction to Rails, I will focus on application generation. In other words, I am going to put the rails new command under the microscope and see what we can find.
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…
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…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 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…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…