Category Archives: Ruby / Rails

I received this e-mail today (2011-01-27) about the end of Ruby on Rails support in NetBeans… Here’s a link to the announcement on their website:  http://netbeans.org/community/news/show/1507.html This doesn’t surprise me at all, and I’m glad I switched to RubyMine a few … Continue reading →

There’s a new way to Install Ruby and Rails on a Windows Machine I wanted to make a small post to point you curious Windows developers over to the new Rails Installer for Windows web site (approx January 18, 2011), which … Continue reading →

Some developers confuse the terms Authentication and Authorization. At first, I also kind of lumped them both in the same bucket. Eventually, I figured out the differences, and wanted to address the issue here to help clarify things a bit. … Continue reading →

I wanted find out for myself what the reported HAML goodness is all about, so I spent a little time to educate myself on the basics, and then I took to converting one of my Rails erb files over to … Continue reading →

I am proud to report that I have successfully installed and used the Devise authentication gem in my little test app that I am building learn Rails. I’m still a newbie at all this stuff, so anything that I can … Continue reading →

May 26, 2010 – Last night I attended my first ever Ruby users group meeting. It’s a meeting of the RubyHam Yahoo group for us folks here in Birmingham, Alabama. There were about 15 people there, and four short presentations … Continue reading →

In case you’re interested, here is a link to the RubyHam users group in Birmingham, Alabama. They have monthly meetings, usually meeting on the first non-holiday Monday of the month. The meetings are around lunch time, rather than at night. … Continue reading →