Archive for the “Ruby on Rails” Category

For a couple of years, i have been using Subversion to manage my projects. I’ve heard about Git many times in the past and since it’s a Linus Torvalds creation, was pretty much interested in taking a closer look. Moreover, my interest in Ruby on Rails, has given me an extra kick towards that direction. You see, RoR uses Git by default, in order to manage your projects. Of course, you should not be surprised. You already know that Rails makes decisions for you and that is what gives it so much power. It saves you configuration time over conventions.

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If you already are a Rails programmer, i’m pretty sure that you have already been dazzled by the things that Rails can do for you. However, all this convenience comes at a cost. That cost comes for the fact that you need to know how to work with the internal Rails conventions and traps. Since i’ve been programming in Rails for quite some months now, i would like to give you what i think are some very useful tips that will make your Rails life easier. On my previous post, i’ve described how Rails associations work, so you might want to take a look. Let’s now take a look at some important Rails techniques-tips.

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Ok, ok, I can’t hide. I am a huge Ruby on Rails fan. It’s been a couple of years that i knew about RoR existence, but i never actually got to learn more about it, never engaged myself to its internals. For years, i’ve been coding A LOT using PHP, mySQL, Smarty or other template engines, Pear and the likes. As much as i liked all these, the truth is ugly; they are too damn slow for a single programmer to work with.

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If you have been using Ruby on Rails to create your websites or web applications, i’m pretty sure that you are looking for a fast and easy way to drop your database and recreate it, as well as feed it with your fixtures data. This procedure is actually 4 different tasks, but using a simple trick, you can make it very easy for you.

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Lately, i’ve been quite interested in learn more things abour Ruby Programming. To be sincere, i always wanted to learn a bit more about the language, but I’ve been into some WordPress Theme programming the past 2-3 months. Hopefully, i will write some posts about this subject as well, in the future.

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