Classes Are Not Objects
I was reading a blog post by Derick Bailey last night and I got into the comments due to a few tweets that I saw (I’m on Twitter if you want to follow me). It was a lot of noise and ranting, but one...
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I had a bit of a meltdown on Twitter the other day… well, it wasn’t really a meltdown, it was just frustration. Frustration with C# and desperately wanting a language which allows me to work without a...
View ArticleRails 3 Baby Steps – Part 1
Go here if you want to see an index for the entire series. As you may have seen from many of my past blog posts, I’m a big fan of Ruby. I’ve been a web developer for a long time now, but for the most...
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Rails 3 Baby Steps – Part 2
Go here if you want to see an index for the entire series. In the last part of my series on Rails 3, we got up and going with Ruby, RubyGems, RVM, and finally Rails. It may have seemed like a lot of...
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Rails 3 Baby Steps – Part 3
In the last entry in my Rails 3 series we looked at hooking up a Controller and View so that we could render a page in the browser. By doing this we technically had a working Rails app, but we were...
View ArticleRails 3 Baby Steps – Part 4
Go here if you want to see an index for the entire series. In this post we are going to take a look at a typical CRUD controller in Rails. We will use a modified version of the controller generated by...
View ArticleRails 3 Baby Steps – Part 5
Go here if you want to see an index for the entire series. In the last entry of my Rails 3 series, we started looking at how you would implement a typical CRUD controller in Rails, but we really only...
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Unblock Rails UI Testing with Cypress
Unblock Rails UI Testing with Cypress Everybody knows that Cypress is the best way to test your UI. Actually, that’s probably not true yet as Cypress went into public beta in October… but soon...
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Takeaways From RailsConf
At Simple Thread, Rails is our favorite framework for building web applications. Even after all these years, we still think it is the most productive framework out there for building awesome web...
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RailsConf 2018 – Top 10 Favorite Talks
Videos of RailsConf 2018 went up last week on Confreaks. When our team got back from RailsConf, we all made notes of our favorite talks, which I’ve summarized below. Note: These are not necessarily the...
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