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It was such a cliche of a title, I just had to use it. I’m sure you have heard of the great BDD tool Cucumber , but what you may not know about is how smelly cukes can be. I have recently been... Read More
Maybe customizing Twitter Bootstrap’s designlike this wasn’t such a good idea! Back in November I discussed various options for integrating Twitter Bootstrap into a Rails 3.1 app, including... Read More
Last time we completed the client-side items needed to display the Events on the User Events page. Our focus now turns to adding and removing events asynchronously using Backbone. In our screenshot... Read More
Sometimes the idea for an article strikes me out-of-the-blue, like a lightning bolt or an airborne toxin. The quality of these sudden onset ideas varies greatly, and it usually directly proportional... Read More
Last time we setup our client-side code and made the map. In this article, we’ll get Events integrated into our Backbone-based client code, displaying the collection of user Events. Event Views... Read More
This simple 5 step tutorial will create a working Rails 3.1 app using Twitter Bootstrap Last month I discussed all of the different gems that are available for integrating Twitter Bootstrap with a... Read More
Part 1 of this post covered my experiences in .NET when writing tests, and how that helped me getting productive in Ruby within a short period of time. Part 2 covers my experiences in Ruby, going... Read More
Building authentication for applications is a run of the mill task we have all encountered at some point or another. In the past, most developers would have reached into their tool belt and pulled... Read More
In the previous article we thinly disguised a Rack tutorial as a comparison of PHP and Ruby. The aim of the article was to point out that most PHP developers start out on a pretty well thought out... Read More
So far in these posts on switching from .NET to Ruby we’ve looked at Classes, Namespacing, Documentation, Methods, Variables, and the Ruby Environment. We’ve covered a lot of ground. Today,... Read More
Class variables in Ruby have a bad name. It’s true, they are considered harmful, borderline evil. So why the bad rap? Read More
Twitter Bootstrap is a great way to quickly build a very polished web site. By now, we’ve all seen Twitter Bootstrap – it’s a great CSS and Javascript library open sourced by Twitter that... Read More
To some, cutting gems is considered an art for the minerally inclined. In the Ruby world, however, gem cutting is a matter of life. Creating RubyGems can be easy , but also a trap for a novice. By... Read More
In this post, I want to finally get the Occasions MVC sequence done. This is the seventh post in the series , and I thought we’d be farther by now. Those responsible for our less-than-expected... Read More
