ActiveRecord models in Rails already do a lot of the heavy lifting, in terms of database access and model relationships, but with a bit of work, they can do more things automatically. Let’s find out how!
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How to Upload Files with Ease Using DragonFly: New on Premium
File uploads are generally a tricky area in web development. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, we will learn how to use Dragonfly, a powerful Ruby gem that makes it easy and efficient to add any kind of upload functionality to a Rails project.
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How to Use Faye as a Real-Time Push Server in Rails
There are multiple ways to add push functionality to an application, including Pushr and Pub-Nub, which are quite elegant and simple solutions. There are also some more advanced options. In this article, I’m going to show you how to use Faye, a messaging system that runs on both Ruby and Node.js.
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The Intro to Rails Screencast I Wish I Had
Isn’t it funny how most “introduction to Ruby on Rails” screencasts are overly simplistic, and rely on generators like scaffolding? The teacher typically follows up the tutorial by stating that most Rails developer don’t use scaffolding generators. Well that’s not much help then! I’d like to give you the tutorial I wish I had. Along the way, we’ll also rely heavily on test-driven development to build a simple app.
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How to Deploy your First Rails App: New on Premium
In this Premium video tutorial, we’ll teach you how to deploy your first Rails web application with Heroku. Particularly if you’re somewhat new to Rails, you may find that you’re met with a long string of errors when pushing your app and database to their servers. Don’t worry, though; this screencast will take you through the entire process from scratch.
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The Best Way to Learn Ruby on Rails
I come from a PHP background, but these days, I’m a full-time Rails developer. The difficulty for most people who make the switch lies in the learning curve that’s involved. Once you’ve become proficient in a language or framework, switching to a new one feels like an unnecessary (and time-consuming) challenge.
However, learning Ruby and Rails is actually pretty easy! It’s an incredibly powerful framework, and has a huge community pushing it along. So that begs the question: what’s the best way to learn Rails? Here’s a lesson plan.
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Create Beautiful Administration Interfaces with Active Admin
Every web developer knows that creating an administration interface for their projects is an incredibly tedious task. Luckily, there are tools that make this task considerably simpler. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use Active Admin, a recently launched administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.
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Advanced Data Models with Rails
Model, View, Controller. If you’ve ever tried Ruby on Rails, those words have probably been drilled into your head a thousand times over. On the other hand, if this is new to you, there’s plenty of resources on Nettuts+ for beginners – but this is not one of them.
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Essential Ruby & Rails 3 Reading
Nearly two years ago, we published a round-up of the greatest Ruby and Rails learning resources available. Since then, big things have happended in the glorious world of Ruby. Rails 3 brought many fundamental improvements to the framework. So, naturally, our “essential resources” list needed to be updated!
Read on for a round-up of the greatest articles, books, and screencasts to come out of the Ruby community!
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Mastering Sass: Lesson 2
In lesson one of our quick tip series, we learned how to install Sass, and how to use variables, nesting, and compression in our stylesheets. Today, we’ll review mixins and selector inheritance, which can provide us with a great deal of convenience and flexibility!
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This entry is part 2 of 3 in the Mastering Sass Session
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