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• 04.30.09
  Why we chose Rails Ruby on Rails | (0)

  This is a reply to Rails is a Step by bryanp. Check out metabahn for some awesome guys who really know their stuff. I'm posting it here also because it got pretty long. First off, I agree with the sentiment of the post, Rails is not the best way in all situations, just like PHP, Sinatra, Merb, Grails and whatever that busted C++ web framework is called are not the best way for every situation. However, Rails is a pretty good way. I believe that Rails is sufficiently versatile that most web-based applications could be written successfully in Rails. Partly because of ...
• 11.26.08
  Rails 2.2 and RubyGems Open Source, Ruby on Rails, ruby | (0)

  Rails 2.2 was released earlier today, so you may be tempted (as indeed I was) to install it right away and play with the new features (such as Array#forty_two ) Well, there are a few things you need to be aware of before you start the update process. One is you must have rubygems 1.3.1 installed to use rails. The default way to do this is with [sourcecode language="sh"]sudo gem update --system[/sourcecode] However, there is a problem with updating rubygems this way when you don't have rubygems-update installed. You can get around this by using [sourcecode language="sh"]sudo gem install rubygems-update sudo ...
• 06.30.08
  RSpec Stories On Rails Ruby on Rails | (0)

  Using a story to drive your development tasks is a good idea, even when there is only 1 team member. Writing stories helps you stay focused on the requirements without getting side-tracked into something that isn't working toward the end goal of your app. There's always time for script.aculo.us later! Using RSpec stories also means you have tests to run against your code so you know that fixing something probably didn't break something else. First thing you want to do is get the RSpec on Rails plugin installed, and generate the RSpec code. $ ./script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec.git $ ./script/plugin install git://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec-rails.git $ ./script/generate rspec Stories ...

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