Most Rails integration efforts revolve around integrating with third party vendors, but much less is being said about how a Rails based application can be a key contributer and consumer of different apps and legacy databases in an enterprise environment. This is the story of PIT, the Programme Information Toolkit, …
Have you heard the story of the poor code monkey? The one who had to prove to his boss that his web app actually worked? Are you the poor code monkey? See how Selenium on Rails can make it easier to take the pain out of view testing by writing …
Jim Rea demonstrates Track Magic, a plugin for Panorama that allows Rails developers to interact directly with Rails databases on the desktop without a browser. http://sdruby.com/podcast/62
Considered by many developers to be one of the fastest frameworks for building applications, Rails has come a long way since 2005. Slated for release later this year, Rails 3 will feature some innovative new features that will make the developer experience even better. Rails 3 will also be the …
Guyren Howe has considerable experience with both MySQL and PostgreSQL. He discusses the myriad technical and other advantages to using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL for, well, pretty much anything. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. http://sdruby.com/podcast/55
Move a find into the model to clean up the controllers and remove duplication. Also see how you can call these custom find methods through an association. http://railscasts.com/episodes/4-move-find-into-model