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 [...]
View PostRuby 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 [...]
View PostReady 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 [...]
View PostWelcome 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.
View PostRuby has many nice methods for checking an objects existence. Rails extends those to be even more expressive. But they don’t all behave the same way, and some are more suited for certain tasks than others. Understanding how these work can beat back the bugs and clarify your code. Here’s a quick run down of [...]
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