Rails offers an ORM layer. This layer is not a very strict layer. To filter or sort objects, you are actually writing SQL code. There doesn’t seem to be much complaining in the community about this mis-feature. In fact in the Agile Web Development with Rails book, the author basically makes snide comments about people [...]
Site wide layout One common method of creating common look and feels in web development is to split up all the common code into a header file and a footer file and include those files in every single interface page. This is better than embedding all that html code inside each page, but it is [...]
In Rails 2.0, fixtures has been improved. You no longer need to specify ID. You can check out the screencast. unfortunately, it does not support the has_one (as far as I can tell). I have a location object that specifies a phone number, a name, and an address object. It is specified as follows: class [...]
This documents how I create Ruby on Rails applications and deploy them to my server. I have created a bare bones apache web server that hosts ruby applications using MySQL. It also assumes you have Ruby on Rails set up on a Macbook Pro. Server Side User mkdir ~/myrumbleapp mkdir ~/myrumbleapp/www mkdir ~/myrumbleapp/www/current mkdir ~/myrumbleapp/logs [...]
General Install Ubuntu 9.1 server using the Bare Server option The first thing I like to do is add my account to the /etc/sudoers file. This just guarantees that I can always use sudo, even if I mistakenly mess up my group assignment. sudo visudo # /etc/sudoers root ALL=(ALL) ALL user ALL=(ALL) ALL user should [...]
Not sure why but I had a heck of a time running my ruby on rails code after updating my Mac to Snow Leopard. I use MacPorts to do my development so I simply removed it and all of my ports as well as the gem I had installed in my home folder. I went [...]