Archive for the ‘Ruby on Rails’ Category
Why Rails Feels like a Developers Only Playground
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
I’m a designer and I work on Ruby on Rails projects or at least I’d like to. I actually competed in the Rails Rumble 09. The issue is continuing to find any work designing projects for Rails. This despite the fact that I’m told on a regular basis there is a shortage of designers working [...]
The Best Windows Ruby on Rails Setup Part 2
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
This is the second part to getting a Windows machine set up for Ruby on Rails Development by having Ubuntu running inside Virtualbox. View Part 1 here. Today’s screencast will walk through installing Ruby, rubygems 1.3.5 and Rails with rubygems, and SqLite3 as well as installing my preferred code editor Komodo Edit. Watch the screencast [...]
The Best Windows Ruby on Rails Setup Part 1
Monday, September 14th, 2009
I recently purchased a new computer and had to get Ruby on Rails installed on it. Up to this point I’ve been using my wife’s Macbook for ROR development on weekends. It was time to make the jump to a dedicated environment that didn’t interfere with the Facebook cravings of the wife. Instead of just [...]
Getting Macports and Git Working on Snow Leopard 10.6
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
We just upgraded to Snow Leopard at work and while the OS is great I did hit a few problems. To start I realized that my install of Git was not working. Then I got farther down the path and realize that Macports was also dead. Then yet another step and I had no C [...]
Rails Resources
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Today is a round up of resources for learning Ruby on Rails. Many of these were given to me by Miles at coderpath and the guys at FV.rb. Working with Rails a site for all of those that are involved with Ruby on Rails. There is a cool ranking system that encourages you to participate [...]
Side Projects Keep you Smart
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Most creatives work on side projects. Side projects keep us fresh they force us to learn new concepts or programming languages that just makes us better at our normal work. It can also open up new opportunities in our careers. Currently I have two new side projects. First I have been a registered Apple developer [...]
