Darcy Laycock
Darcy Laycock is a web application developer from Perth, Western Australia. By day, he writes code for The Frontier Group and by night he's a Code Monkey for Youth Tree (A youth-oriented organisation) from Perth and avid contributor to open source ruby projects.
Darcy's articles
In this tutorial, Darcy Laycock will show us how to add CoffeeScript to a Rails application. In this case, we’ll continue building on our “shorty” url shortener from my Building Your First Rails Application series—to add some basic JavaScript using CoffeeScript and Barista, a gem to add seamless CoffeeScript support to Rails applications.
This topic is going to teach you about Darcy Laycock's 10 Ruby on Rails Best Practices - Part 1. Enjoy!
Welcome to the second part of our two-part tutorial. Last time, we installed Ruby on Rails, generated an application for shortening URLs and created the Model for it. Now we’re going to create the Controller for our application, write the View and see if we can get the application to work.
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This is the part 2 of Getting Started with Rails 3, by the author Darcy Laycock. In this part, we're going to create the Controller for our application.