Thoughts on ActiveRecord Callbacks
Guidelines I use for determining if and how I want to use everyone's favorite before/after hooks in Rails
Guidelines I use for determining if and how I want to use everyone's favorite before/after hooks in Rails
Heroku is a phenomenal service for deploying small apps since they have a great free plan. Rack-Jekyll is a gem that makes deploying a Jekyll site to Heroku easy, but there are a couple gotchas with making the current version work.
Though it might be one of the most abused terms in web development today, learning and using REST correctly can make life much easier for you.
Partials in Rails are a powerful tool to create DRY-er code, but, once you go beyond the basic use-cases, you can quickly find yourself frustrated. Here's how I managed to solve one problem I ran into.
Inherited resources is a wonderful, and powerful gem and with a few tweaks we made the base functionality much more generally useful.