All Posts in Rails

Oct. 8th, 2011

Part One: Compass and Sass

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Problem As a Ruby on Rails developer, you have a lots of choices for creating visually wonderful websites. And with the introduction of Sass in Rails 3.1, CSS has become easier to code then ever. But, say, your Rails app grows and with it so does Sass and CSS. With… read the rest of the article

Posted in: Design, Rails, Ruby, Web Design

May. 20th, 2011

Deploying a ruby rails3 app to heroku

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Heroku, in the least, is a super awesome way to get a test or integration server up and running fast. How fast you ask… Lets say you start with a rails app that is ready to post. It isn’t in git yet. Get your heroku account setup. Now type this…… read the rest of the article

Posted in: Heroku, Rails

Apr. 5th, 2011

Querying Ruby on Rails data through RadRails

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With just a little work you can add the ability to see into the sqlite database that Ruby on Rails uses as a default for your project. Step 1. Install the plug-in Since RadRails is based on Eclipse you can use any plug-in written for Eclipse. For this task we… read the rest of the article

Posted in: Rails, Ruby

Mar. 12th, 2011

Adding users to Ruby on Rails

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Wow… That was easy. Devise is a great little gem that lets you add user accounts to your rails application. It should be one of the first things you setup. It has addons to hook up facebook logins (via the Facebook Graph API) and OAth. I didn’t try any of… read the rest of the article

Posted in: Rails, Ruby