Category Archives: Ruby On Rails

Building you Ruby on Rails environment on the Mac

Posted on February 4, 2007 by Andrew Woodward

I have to confess that I am still doing my Rail development on Windows (see SoftiesOnRails.com for a decent forum and posts on this. However the article Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X by Dan … Continue reading →

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Rails 1.2.1 Released

Posted on January 20, 2007 by Andrew Woodward

If your into Rails you probably have this but worth repeating for the efforts put in by the rails community. Rails 1.2: REST admiration, HTTP lovefest, and UTF-8 celebrations

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Ruby MySQL 2.7.3 Gem – Error doing db:migrate

Posted on January 16, 2007 by Andrew Woodward

I have recently upgraded the MySQL gem to resolve ‘lost connection’ issues all appeared to work (I’m using MySQL v5 on XP running MySQL as a service). However this evening I needed to do some database migration which presented me … Continue reading →

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Finding Help Fast – Ruby

Posted on December 18, 2006 by Andrew Woodward

John Nunemaker, at RailsTips.org has posted a really cool article to help with your Ruby seaches Finding Help Fast!.

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Running Subversion in Windows

Posted on December 13, 2006 by Andrew Woodward

Martin Lindhe has a good article on installation and configuration of Subversion (SVN) 1.4.0 in Windows. Having installed and played with Subversion and TortoiseSVN, the windows client to Subversion, I can say that I am more than impressed. Quick, simple … Continue reading →

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Working through Agile Web Development with Rails – Part 4

Posted on December 10, 2006 by Andrew Woodward

..continued from part 3 Section 9 Playtime – Page 139 The last task is to add a link to each item and remove it from the cart. It is suggested that you do this in a non-Ajax way first and … Continue reading →

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Working through Agile Web Development with Rails – Part 3

Posted on December 8, 2006 by Andrew Woodward

continued in part 4… .. continued from part 2 Iteration D3: Highlight Changes This error had me stumped for a while, although it did force me to read through and really understand how the code was working. Something I have … Continue reading →

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RubyOnRails – A newbie introduction

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Andrew Woodward

First Impression Wow! That was easy! After doing the normal Google -> Review -> Google some more process I was left with a long list of things to look at and also some other examples of people who have been … Continue reading →

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Moving out from the Microsoft Umbrella

Posted on November 23, 2006 by Andrew Woodward

Having developed software on the Microsoft platform since VB3 and before I have always like the way that as a developer things just worked, you click install and it does it all. I did flirt with Java before .Net came … Continue reading →

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