Posts Tagged Ruby on Rails

Using the Amazon ECS Gem In Your Rails App

Amazon.com offers a tremendous amount of web services to developers looking to display their products. They benefit from this because developers make all sorts of cool apps for browsing Amazon. For example, nifty 3D Flash experience CoolIris (formerly known as ‘PicLens’) added Amazon functionality to their product. It’s a win-win for developers and Amazon because it drives traffic to the site while paying developers referral fees. Read the rest of this entry »

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Best of 2009, Ruby on Rails Edition

It was a good year for Rails. In 2009, we saw a number of exciting developments and a lot of great tools were released. Rails 2.3 was released in March 2009 and met with much fanfare. Rails has seen the introduction of templates, engines and a lot of other great features. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tracking What’s Hot with Ruby Toolbox

Knowing what software is popular, current and updated regularly is a crucial aspect to developing successful websites. All developers benefit from being knowledgeable about what software is kept up to date but for Ruby on Rails developers this is doubly true. Enter Ruby Toolbox, a website tracking Rails plugin popularity on Github. Read the rest of this entry »

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Useful MySQL commands with Ruby on Rails on a Mac or in Linux

Because RoR is so high level often times you can feel disconnected with what’s under the hood. Often times you need to view what objects, or columns, you are working with. Or you delete columns. Here are a handful of common mysql commands that I use often in RoR. Read the rest of this entry »

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