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Deploying a Nesta CMS Blog with Pygments Syntax Highlighting to Heroku

3 months ago by pogodan on Ryan's Scraps.
Blogging and/or setting up a simple site should be a simple proposition. There are a lot of great frameworks out there that handle the software portion...

Site Relaunch

3 months ago by pogodan on Ryan's Scraps.
I’m currently in the middle of putting a fresh coat of paint on RyanDaigle.com, the previous home of the What’s new in Edge Rails series. All...

What's New in Edge Rails: Skinny on Scopes

~2 years ago by Ryan Daigle on Ryan's Scraps.
I go into a detailed explanation of using ActiveRecord scopes in Rails 3 over on EdgeRails.info. I won’t be cross-posting for too much long, so update...

'What's New in Edge Rails' Moves to EdgeRails.info

over 2 years ago by Ryan Daigle on Ryan's Scraps.
For awhile I’ve wanted to move the “What’s New in Edge Rails” series to its own site to reflect the fact that it is an independent and self-sustaining series...

What's New in Edge Rails: Set Flash in redirect_to

over 2 years ago by Ryan Daigle on Ryan's Scraps.
This feature is schedule for: Rails v2.3 stable Rails’ flash is a convenient way of passing objects (though mostly used for message strings) across...

What's New in Edge Rails: Independent Model Validators

almost 3 years ago by Ryan Daigle on Ryan's Scraps.
This feature is schedule for: Rails v3.0 ActiveRecord validations, ground zero for anybody learning about Rails, got a lil’ bit of decoupling mojo today...

What's New in Edge Rails: Default RESTful Rendering

almost 3 years ago by Ryan Daigle on Ryan's Scraps. [Linked from: Space Babies]
This feature is schedule for: Rails v3.0 A few days ago I wrote about the new respond_with functionality of Rails 3. It’s basically a clean way to...

What's New in Edge Rails: Cleaner RESTful Controllers w/ respond_with

almost 3 years ago by Ryan Daigle on Ryan's Scraps.
This feature is schedule for: Rails v3.0 REST is a first-class citizen in the Rails world, though most of the hard work is done at the routing level...

Rubyists, Learn Some iPhone Skillz

almost 3 years ago by Ryan Daigle on Ryan's Scraps.
If any of you Rubyists are going to be attending the FutureRuby in Toronto this July and have an interest in learning how to work some magic on the iPhone...

What's New in Edge Rails: Database Seeding

~3 years ago by Ryan Daigle on Ryan's Scraps.
This feature is schedule for: Rails v3.0 I’m not sure if this was ever stated explicitly has a preferred practice or not, but for the longest time many...