Tag: ruby

Creating Database-driven Apps with Sinatra

  • August 20, 2010 at 1:00 pm

  • Sinatra itself has useful help pages, but (so far) this the best tutorial I’ve found. Creating Database-driven Apps with Sinatra

A Beginner's Sinatra Tutorial

  • May 31, 2010 at 6:00 pm

  • 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. [...]

Scratching my head over Rails

  • May 17, 2010 at 9:20 am

  • 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 [...]

Ruby on Rails beginners club in Birmingham: are you interested?

  • April 22, 2010 at 1:00 pm

  • For months I’ve been having conversations with people about how we should set up a Rails beginners group in Birmingham, so now I’m actually going to do it. I realise that even among beginners there will be a wide range of expertise levels. Therefore I ask attenders to have at least started trying to write [...]

Learn to Program (using Ruby)

  • November 1, 2009 at 8:00 am

  • 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)