RubyTapas: Short screencasts of gourmet Ruby code, served up daily

RubyTapas: Short screencasts of gourmet Ruby code, served up daily

Here's the pitch: you're a Ruby on Rails developer. You can code up a blog in 15 minutes, and an ecommerce site in half a week. You eat routes files for breakfast and when you sleep you dream in HAML.

You're ready for more. You know Rails is built on a language of extroardinary expressive power and elegance. Maybe you've watched master Rubyists craft exquisitly concise methods that would make Java programmers weep with envy. Or maybe you've been reading about SOLID principles, but you're not sure how to apply them to your Ruby programs. You'd like to level up your knowledge of the core Ruby language, but you also have milestones to hit. You don't have the time to read thick books or go to week-long training sessions.
RubyTapas is for the busy Ruby or Rails developer who is ready to reach the next level of code mastery. Daily short screencasts will introduce you to a wide variety of intermediate to advanced Ruby concepts and techniques, as well as core Object-Oriented design principles. Lead by head chef Avdi Grimm (author of Exceptional Ruby), you'll go from journeyman to master, one small, tasty plate at a time.

My Hero, Heroku | Rapture In Venice: A Mobile Developer for iPhone, iPad, and Android Development in Denver, Colorado

My Hero, Heroku | Rapture In Venice: A Mobile Developer for iPhone, iPad, and Android Development in Denver, Colorado

A friend and co-worker of mine, Tony Hillerson, was once scheduled to rebuild a backend system for a client of ours. His idea was to replace our tiny little PHP friend with a Heroku implementation. He described it as Rails on a cloud and I kept it in mind cause I loves me my Rails. Amiright?

About 8 months later, a customer project came about and I felt Rails would be the perfect solution for the services and web site he needed. (Full disclosure: it always is.) I decided to look into Heroku and, let me tell you, what a success the project has been!

LUG Villafranca Programming Course

LUG Villafranca Programming Course

This document gives a brief outline of the programming course organised together with the Linux User Group of Villafranca, Verona, Italy. The course introduces programming in JavaScript, Ruby, and fundamentals of Ajax over a ten week period. In twenty intensive hours, students are introduced to the tools and methods used in modern programming practices, and the author's twenty years of experience.

This document is being published on the Internet in parallel with the course. Once the course has finished, it will remain as a tutorial for other fledgling programmers.

Ruby on Rails, Part 1

Ruby on Rails, Part 1

This week's lesson starts us on a two part adventure building a web application using Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework. You'll need to install Ruby on Rails – we're using version 2.0.2. Our application also uses RMagick and SQLite. Installing RMagick is explained in this FAQ, we're using version 2.0.0. Installing SQLite is explained in this How-to, we're using the Ruby SQLite3 wrapper version 1.2.1. Windows users will need both the .exe and .dll versions of SQLite. The Ruby on Rails Wiki page also gives helpful information for SQLite.