Rails Source Code Annotations

I’ve been catching up on my blog reading and I’ve stumbled upon an article describing a great new feature in Edge Rails that lets you add annotations to your code. You can use TODO, OPTIMIZE and FIXME to mark parts of your code. Then you can use rake notes to list annotations - which is [...]

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Rails Simplified: Migrations

When you start learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails you are faced with very powerful set of tools and sometimes it can be overwhelming. You are often faced with long cryptic explanation of some feature and all you want is a quick overview of what it does and how you could use it.
Rails Simplified will [...]

Amazon on Rails - search Amazon using Rails and Ruby/Amazon

Currently I am working on my first big Rails application and I needed an simple and quick way to get matching movies and music based on user entered keywords. The best place to get such information is Amazon as they have almost anything in their store.
So I decided to write a small Rails application that [...]

Install Ruby and Ruby On Rails on Ubuntu

Recently I started messing around with Ruby and I wanted to set it up on our local server, so I gave InstantRails a go - and it worked perfectly.
Meanwhile we changed our operating system and switched from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu Dapper), so now I needed Rails for Ubuntu. Unfortunately (or luckily) there is no [...]

Ruby installation on Windows

Recently I’ve started playing around with Ruby and Ruby On Rails on our hosted server. Since I liked it a lot I have finally decided to try to install it on our local Windows server. While I was doing it I found that most of the online tutorials are not all completely accurate, i.e. they [...]