Software Development —
Ruby on Rails does indeed live up to its reputation for productivity and developer happiness, that’s for sure. Over the course of three weeks or so, I’ve been through the whole lifecyle of a Rails app and had a blast with it. It was launched a week or so ago and is up [...]
Every so often I come across a great tool and I like to spread the joy around. I’ve just installed Firebug, a Firefox plug in, which is:
..a new tool for Firefox that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript [...]
As I start writing a post titled, ‘Why I love Ruby,” it occurred to me that I’m probably not the first person to post such an entry. hmm.. wonder how many others have written those same exact words? Enter the phrase, “why I love Ruby”, surrounded in quotes, into Google and there’s your [...]
I still need to post a ‘why I love Ruby on Rails’ list, but in the meantime, here is one of my favorites.
You can execute Ruby interactively via irb, aka ‘Interactive Ruby’. Irb is a Ruby shell that’s let’s you do all sorts of cool stuff. And when developing with rails, you can [...]
I’ve heard so much about RoR lately, I had to try it out to see what all the hype is about. I have to say the jury may be still out in some regards, but in others it’s in and it’s very impressive.
The Ruby install is a breeze. There’s a ‘one-click’ install for [...]