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The Ravine

over 5 years ago by Jeff Cohen on Softies on Rails.
If you're reading our blog, chances are good that, like me, you were/are working with a non-Ruby, non-Rails technology most of the time. And going from...

PeepCode: RESTful Rails

over 5 years ago by Brian Eng on Softies on Rails.
Just finished watching topfunky's latest Peepcode screencast on RESTful Rails. Highly recommended, even if you already "get it" with regards to RESTful...

A great Rails cheat sheet

over 5 years ago by Brian Eng on Softies on Rails.
Benjamin Gorlick has posted a quite comprehensive Rails cheat sheet over on his blog. A pretty good resource for those getting started or just need that...

Extra tip regarding scaffold_resource

over 5 years ago by Jeff Cohen on Softies on Rails.
In my last post I explained how to use the new scaffold_resource generator, and I said that after the generator runs, you just need to edit the migration...

Quick guide to the new scaffold_resource generator

over 5 years ago by Jeff Cohen on Softies on Rails.
Before I begin, I want to thank Ezra for making me aware that this generator is now available in edge rails. Recently I described how to live on the edge...

Chow.com launched

over 5 years ago by Brian Eng on Softies on Rails.
Just read over at PJ Hyett's blog that they've launched Chow.com, a great site which is (unsurprisingly) about food. The amazing part is that their small...

Rails 101 for Microsoft Developers

over 5 years ago by Jeff Cohen on Softies on Rails.
A while ago we asked if there would be any interest in a Ruby on Rails class geared especially for current and former Microsoft developers (C#, VB.NET,...

Site back up

over 5 years ago by Jeff Cohen on Softies on Rails.
Our site went down again today. We've just had it with our current hosting provider, and so we're going to move to a new one soon. We're probably going...

Official Ruby website has been redesigned

over 5 years ago by Jeff Cohen on Softies on Rails.
And that's putting it mildly! It's a fresh design that's been long overdue, and I think reflects the culture of the Ruby community at large very well.Check...

Stuff I (and maybe you) didn't know about irb

over 5 years ago by Brian Eng on Softies on Rails.
Whoa! Here's a damn fine article by Chris Wanstrath about all kinds of neat stuff you can do with irb and script/console. $ ruby script/console --sandbox...