Just saw demos of this great online rails ide. It looks amazing. You can start writing code right away without installing anything. Webserver and database work immediately. I signed up for the waiting list right away. »
I want to create a somewhat bigger website and was looking for a decent host for Ruby on Rails. I found a host that looks really good calledslicehost. For 20 dollar a month you get your own machine (or actually a part of it) that you can setup the way »
In 2 lectures we tried to build a small cd managing application (how oldskool). For simplicity reasons we used the following datamodel. These steps were done: Create a database with the three tables Create the rails application on the commandline: »
The has_many_and_belongs_to_many relation is a very powerful construct in Ruby to set a relation between two entities. You can use this for many to many relations. For instance the relation between a person and a project. A person works in many projects »
This week a lot of nice discussions took place on our weblogs. Here are some highlights: Is client server communication between Ruby and Flex faster when using xml? link The unconscious part of your brain takes in a lot of information without you actually »