Citizensheep » programming http://citizensheep.com/blog Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies. Wed, 23 May 2012 15:29:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Creating Database-driven Apps with Sinatra http://citizensheep.com/blog/2010/08/20/hello-sinatra-using-sinatra-in-ruby/ http://citizensheep.com/blog/2010/08/20/hello-sinatra-using-sinatra-in-ruby/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:00:12 +0000 Michael http://citizensheep.com/blog/2010/08/20/hello-sinatra-using-sinatra-in-ruby/

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    • ]]>     Sinatra itself has useful help pages, but (so far) this the best tutorial I’ve found.

    Creating Database-driven Apps with Sinatra

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    • ]]>     In my desperate attempt to grapple with Ruby people keep introducing me to new and 'better' ways to use it, before I've had a chance to understand what I was doing with the previous one they lauded. Currently under my nose is Sinatra, which would probably be great if I understood what I was doing. Anyway, this tutorial seems to make more sense than Sinatra's own help pages.

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    • ]]>     I’m trying to teach myself Rails, but I’m not even a programmer. So when I’m stumped, I’m fairly stumped. Currently my app is not saving form data when it should be, and redirecting when it shouldn’t.

    Update

    I’ve actually fixed this now. It was the ‘home_path’ route that was causing the problems. Thanks to everyone who made suggestions on Twitter, and particularly Josh Hart for thrashing it out with me over a coffee.

    I’ve had a few suggestions via Twitter, but still can’t get it to work. If you happen to be a Rails developer I’d be eternally grateful for any advice on the code below (for some reason the embedding seems to be screwing up the line numbering).

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    • ]]>     I'm trying to get my head around Ruby (and Rails, and HAML) and this is proving a good start. Obviously you need Ruby installed first (which wasn't all that straightforward, not in Windows at any rate), but once you've done that it's quite enjoyable.

    Visit Learn to Program (using Ruby)

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