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September Workshop: Yowza!

Posted on September 7, 2012 by brookr in Rails

 Learning Rails on your own? Are you attempting the “self-taught” route to learn Ruby on Rails? That’s how I learned. But books, blog posts, and screencasts were never enough to get the ball rolling for me. I’d get through some examples, and lose motivation. Ever find a screencasts that answers ALL your questions? Me neither. [...]

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5 mistakes that make you look like a Rails n00b

Posted on September 6, 2012 by brookr in Rails

Update: As pointed out in the comments & elsewhere, these bad practices are common to those learning many (most?) programming languages, and are not necessarily specific to Rails. My experience is just with teaching Rails, where I see these often, so that’s the context in which I can assert that they are common. But if these hit [...]

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Rake on Rails: At-A-Glance Poster

Posted on July 6, 2012 by brookr in Rails, Tools

Rails Tools: Rake Rake is a handy tool that becomes like a good friend for most ruby developers… The kind of friend that helps you out when you need to move, and the kind of friend that you occasionally need to offer some guidance to (bundle exec, anyone?). I use it every day to get [...]

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The Very BEST Way to Learn Ruby on Rails

Posted on May 19, 2012 by brookr in Novice, Rails, Ruby

The Question Over on Quora, somone asked: What’s the best way for a beginner to start learning Ruby on Rails? — Anonymous My first reaction was very post-modern: I can’t tell you what’s best for you! But then I thought about it, just a little bit more. The truth is, I probably can tell you [...]

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Client-side Time Zone Support

Posted on May 16, 2012 by brookr in Rails

The Default Rails 3 stores all times in UTC format, and will often end up displaying times in the server’s timezone (depending on the settings). So, unless your server is in the same timezone as ALL your users, they may well end up very confused. Easy Fixins I needed to address this on a recent [...]

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Hope for the Best, Plan for the Worst

Posted on May 16, 2012 by renee in Misc

I recently had something happen, that I must admit, I was not prepared for, and I’m going to tell you what I’ve learned from this experience. Hopefully, you can learn from my story, and not have to go through this yourself. My House was robbed on Sunday. Luckily we were not at home, and neither [...]

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This is Why Learning Rails is Hard

Posted on March 27, 2012 by brookr in Novice, Rails, Ruby

Ruby on Rails Has Many Dependencies It’s in the name. Rails depends on Ruby. But as anyone learning Rails can tell you, it depends on a lot more. There is a whole corpus of tools and concepts that a modern web developer must be familiar with. On top of those, Rails comes with it’s own [...]

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Launch: Rails Fundamentals Workshop

Posted on March 25, 2012 by brookr in Novice, Rails, Ruby

Ready to Get Technical? You love the Internet. You use web apps daily. Maybe you even work at a company that produces web apps or a tech startup trying to gain traction with a new web service. But if you aren’t a part of the technical team, perhaps the details of how these things work [...]

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Haml by Default in a New Rails App

Posted on March 16, 2012 by brookr in Apprentice, Rails

(UPDATE: Daniel Kehoe, the maintainer of the RailsApps repo, graciously accepted my contribution. I’ve updated the links to point to the master project.) The really short version Generate a new rails app based on a template that includes Haml (and some other nice optional features). rails new ProjectName -m https://raw.github.com/RailsApps/rails3-application-templates/master/rails3-haml-html5-template.rb The lazy one works the hardest [...]

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Introducing…

Posted on March 16, 2012 by brookr in Novice, Rails, Ruby

Welcome aboard! This site is dedicated to helping you dive into Ruby on Rails and it’s complicated, but totally learnable, ecosystem. ReadySetRails is a live and in-person training class dedicated to getting you up and running with a modern development toolset. Stay tuned for more info! Our first course offering will be launching soon.

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