Category Archives: rails

A Few Good Cookbooks

By Ben | Published: February 25, 2007

I’ve played around a bit with Ruby and Rails over the past couple of years, but I haven’t done any significant programming in either. After attending CodeMash and sitting in on a few great sessions around both Ruby and Rails, I decided to start using Ruby as my primary scripting language and I made [...]

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Re-thinking Convention

By Ben | Published: March 8, 2006

I’ve been playing more and more with Ruby On Rails lately and it has been a very mind-opening experience with regards to many of my ideas around application architecture. There are many wonderful things about Rails, but the idea (and implemenations) of “convention over configuration” is demonstrated beautifully within Rails.
My development experience has been primarily [...]

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