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Blogging and/or setting up a simple site should be a simple proposition. There are a lot of great frameworks out there that handle the software portion of running such a site. However, you don’t just want a stock setup. You have to take in...

Blogging and/or setting up a simple site should be a simple proposition. There are a lot of great frameworks out there that handle the software portion of running such a site. However, you don’t just want a stock setup. You have to take in...

As seems to be tradition amongst the Nerderati it’s common to explain the particulars of your blogging setup anytime there’s a change. Today is such an occasion. After a significant hiatus of any meaningful writing I’ve decided...

As seems to be tradition amongst the Nerderati it’s common to explain the particulars of your blogging setup anytime there’s a change. Today is such an occasion. After a significant hiatus of any meaningful writing I’ve decided...

This is a test of the various markup capabilities of Pygments running within Ruby on Heroku styling a Nesta CMS backed blog. Languages ruby def greeting 'Hello World!' end lib/heroku.js var...

This is a test of the various markup capabilities of Pygments running within Ruby on Heroku styling a Nesta CMS backed blog. Languages ruby def greeting 'Hello World!' end lib/heroku.js var...

I’m currently in the middle of putting a fresh coat of paint on RyanDaigle.com, the previous home of the What’s new in Edge Rails series. All old links to http://ryandaigle.com/articles will be redirected to an archived version of th...

I go into a detailed explanation of using ActiveRecord scopes in Rails 3 over on EdgeRails.info. I won’t be cross-posting for too much long, so update your feed to the new EdgeRails feed to keep abreast of the latest and greatest! ......

For awhile I’ve wanted to move the “What’s New in Edge Rails” series to its own site to reflect the fact that it is an independent and self-sustaining series and not some small figment of my mind anymore. I started writing the...

This feature is schedule for: Rails v2.3 stable Rails’ flash is a convenient way of passing objects (though mostly used for message strings) across http redirects. In fact, every time you set a flash parameter the very next step is ...

This feature is schedule for: Rails v3.0 ActiveRecord validations, ground zero for anybody learning about Rails, got a lil’ bit of decoupling mojo today with the introduction of validator classes. Until today, the only options you h...

This feature is schedule for: Rails v3.0 A few days ago I wrote about the new respond_with functionality of Rails 3. It’s basically a clean way to specify the resource to send back in response to a RESTful request. This works wonde......