theRailWorld.com
Blog URL http://therailworld.com
Located Bangor, County Down United Kingdom
Tags Ruby Rails Programming, Ruby, Rails, Programming, Belfast, Web, Design, Development, Ruby on Rails
Phil McClure blogs about Ruby on Rails related topics.
Latest Blog Posts
- Sunspot Full-text Search for Rails/Ruby on Oct 24, 2009
Sunspot I had the recent pleasure of using Sunspot, which is powered by Apache Solr, to provide full-text search functionality for a Ruby on Rails recent project. Installation/Configuration Installing Sunspot is reasonably simple. I installed the...
- Sass and the Compass Framework on Oct 14, 2009
My Experience with Compass So, as you may have noticed, I have given the site a bit of a make over... and I thought it may be nice to make my first post be about the tools that I used to create the new look. In particular I want to talk about the w...
- Nested Object Forms in Rails 2.3 on Oct 2, 2009
The Problem If you work with web applications on a a regular basis, at some point you're going to have to deal with gathering user input for storage in a database or for passing on via email. As you start to model more complex "problem domains, you...
- Caching with Rails Part 1: Page Caching on Oct 2, 2009
Why do it? There are three types of caching in Rails. In this tutorial we are going to concentrate on Page Caching. Page caching is the simplest and fastest form of caching in Rails. If you want to reduce the amount of times your Rails app hits...
- How to Create a Blog from Scratch Using Ruby on Rails on Oct 2, 2009
Brief Overview of Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails is a framework for the Ruby language, which is used for rapid development of web applications. It does this by allowing you to concentrate on solving your clients’ problems and not getting caught up in...
- Blueprint CSS Framework on Oct 2, 2009
There are many tasks that you need to do everytime you start a new web project. Some of these tasks are defining the layout of your website, performing a global reset and typography. The Blueprint CSS framework can be used to ease the pain of repea...
- Create a Twitter App with Rails: Demo Data on Oct 2, 2009
Get the Code Using Git! To get the demo data for the up and coming noupe.com "Create a Twitter App" tutorial you can do the following. From the command line, you can grab the code from git hub: > git clone git://github.com/overture8/Twitter-B...
