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The best environment for Rails on Windows
Fabio Akita has put together an excellent how-to on how to setup your windows machine to succesfuly install a perfect environment to develop Rails applications.
Before starting out, ignore some of what’ve already read elsewhere: it is not necessary to use full blown IDEs such as Netbeans or Aptana. You can, but you don’t need to. [...]
jQuery turns 3 years old and v1.3
Back on January 14, 2006, a brash, young and talented developer named John Resig put out a personal project to the OSS world and hoped it could benefit *someone*. Little did he know that 3 years later, his side project would become one of the most influential frameworks for developing JavaScript-based applications. Today, the jQuery [...]
Free Ruby lessons
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RubyLearning offers free online Ruby programming courses and since 2005, over 6500 participants spread across 140+ countries have learned Ruby programming.
And once you’re there, grab a copy of a Free eBook on Merb
Validatig non AR Models in Rails 2.1>
Since Active Record changed in Rails 2.1, now you have to do this.
Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.6-20090113
New version of Ruby Enterprise Edition.
Release Notes.
Getting started with Rails Testing
A cool free guide from Rails Prescriptions to creating Rails tests as an integral part of your development process. Available in DRM-free PDF format.
Web Dev Project Estimator
Although most web designers have an idea of how long a project will take based on their past experience, far too often this guess becomes a final estimate. If you’ve ever been 300+ hours into a project that’s paying you for 100, I’m sure you know first hand why this can be a serious problem [...]
Git branch on the command prompt
This is a great way to show the working git branch on your terminal prompt:
Put the previous code on your .profile or .bash_rc file, then close and open the terminal and navigate to a git repository, you will see the current working git branch on the prompt
Congratulations to GitHub.com
Congrats to GitHub.com Team for winning the Best Bootstrapped Startup of 2008 award in The Crunchies.
You can view the full list of winers here
Welcome to rubyninjas.com
Hello and welcome to rubyninjas.com
RubyNinjas.com plans to be a one stop resource for tutorials, tips, general information about the great Ruby Programing Language and Web programing in general.
So we will try to make this a great place to read and share and if you are a ruby ninja and want to contribute in this, drop [...]
