Three great tastes that taste great together You have an Exchange Server and you need an employee roster. You might be thinking, “We’ll just create a database for that.” Let’s really think about that. If you do, then you have two databases…
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 my article Ruboto: Ruby’s and Android’s First Born, I covered one way to use Ruby for mobile app development. In that article, we created a native Android app in JRuby that could run on Android’s Java Virtual Machine. This time, we will dip…
Continue Reading…Urls, Uniform Resource Locator, are fundamental to the web. These are the addresses that are used for finding web pages or, more specifically, ‘resources’ as they don’t actually need to be web pages, they can be anything from images, files or even…
Continue Reading…Asynchronously Adding and Deleting Resources in Sinatra In part one of this tutorial we went through how to add and delete robots into a database. In this tutorial I’m going to show how you can leverage the XMLHttpRequest to perform actions in…
Continue Reading…Adding and Deleting Resources in Sinatra In this tutorial I’m going to go through how to use Sinatra to add and remove resources to and from a database. To demonstrate this, I’m going to build a tiny web app called The Robot…
Continue Reading…Welcome to the last part of this series. The aim of this series of tutorials has been to take somebody who has never used Sinatra from creating an app to deploying it. You can find the other parts of the series at…
Continue Reading…In Part 2 of this tutorial, we used DataMapper to save tasks to a database back end and created a web front end that used Sinatra to show, add, delete and complete tasks. In this tutorial we will make it look a…
Continue Reading…In part one of this tutorial, we set Sinatra up and displayed some pages. Now the fun really starts – we will be using a database to store our tasks in. In this tutorial we will be using SQLite for the local…
Continue Reading…In this tutorial, I’m going to show you just how quick and easy it easy to use Sinatra to create a simple To Do list app.
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