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  • Kyle Parkinson
    July 14, 2011
  • cam fortin
    July 13, 2011
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Ruby on Rails Race

Alright boys, time to learn some ruby on rails.

Current Goal: recreate twitter light using ruby on rails 3 tutorial. go!

Time to get back in the game

posted Feb 2, 2012 6:33 PM by cam fortin

I'm picking up the book again!

Helpful post on directories in ruby

posted Oct 23, 2011 10:18 AM by cam fortin   [ updated Oct 23, 2011 10:18 AM ]

Properly setting up your machine

posted Oct 5, 2011 9:36 AM by Kyle Parkinson   [ updated Oct 5, 2011 9:36 AM ]

A nice little overview on a current and proper setup for your development environment:


(the bottom half of the page has a nice walkthrough)

Trick Tip of the day

posted Jul 21, 2011 5:36 PM by Noah Zandan

When you're rocking some manual code in terminal, press tab mid-word and it magically completes words and phrases for you.

Railing

posted Jul 20, 2011 9:14 AM by Kyle Parkinson

Finished Chapter 3 last night, after hitting quite a time-consuming snag in my programming environment. On the upside, said snag led me to add a second monitor and make a few other changes which will significantly update my speed and productivity moving forward. Aiming to cover two chapters tonight to get back on pace.

No Real Understanding

posted Jul 16, 2011 10:44 AM by Noah Zandan

Just finished Chapter 2, deployed at http://growing-wind-605.heroku.com
 
According the book, our weakness is that we have "no real understanding" - do you agree Cam?
 
KP - when are you making us a coding mix on spotify?

HAHA!

posted Jul 14, 2011 8:58 PM by cam fortin

ruby-1.9.2-p180 :048 > def string_message(string)
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :049?>   if string.empty?
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :050?>     "You are a ballsucker"
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :051?>     else
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :052 >       "You are not a ballsucker"
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :053?>     end
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :054?>   end
 => nil 
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :055 > string_message("hi")
 => "You are not a ballsucker" 
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :056 > string_message("")
 => "You are a ballsucker" 

Up and Running on Heroku

posted Jul 13, 2011 8:15 PM by Noah Zandan   [ updated Jul 13, 2011 8:24 PM ]

After we build twitter...

posted Jul 13, 2011 9:07 AM by Noah Zandan

check out http://asciicasts.com/ (text version of railscasts.com) for tutorials on libraries and techniques

Cam's Links

posted Jul 12, 2011 10:23 PM by cam fortin

Here is where my sample app lives for now: http://hollow-mountain-92.heroku.com/

I am definitely going to win bitches

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