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- Ruby on Rails desktop background
I was looking for some cool new desktop backgrounds and couldn’t really find anything new out there that had to do with Ruby on Rails, so I designed one last night.
The Ruby logo is obviously from Ruby-Lang.org and the vectors are items that I created for other previous work.
Nothing too fancy, just something that I [...]
- Site Launch: Fans25.com
We recently launched a new project at YourMark.com that caters to the college football fanatics out there.
The site is called Fans25.com, and certainly delivers that college football atmosphere that is so strong in the South!
The site features a thriving discussion forum, a well-written blog highlighting the latest college football news, a user-generated “Fans Top 25″ [...]
- Rails community finally gets much needed documentation upgrade
Without a doubt, one of the biggest complaints I hear about the Rails community is the lack of up-to-date documentation out there for the Rails 2.x projects and code.
It looks like that is finally changing….
It appears as though there has been quite a nice amount of work going on over at http://guides.rails.info. Some new and [...]
- REVIEW: XBox 360 Wireless Steering Wheel
Over the weekend, I finally broke down and purchased the wireless steering wheel and pedals for the XBox 360.
If you have tried playing any of the current racing games for the 360 with the standard controller, then you will understand how frustrating it is to do it without the steering wheel, so if you play [...]
- Acts_as_slugable plugin and why you need it
If you are building a social Rails application, or any other Rails application that needs to have a URL slug, rather than the typical users/admin/232 type of URL scheme, then the acts_as_slugable plugin is going to be a perfect fit.
In my current Rails project, I want the users to be have their own “storefront” per [...]
- Bort - A base Rails application
Wow, I can think of many times that this would have come in handy!
Thanks to the wonderful subscription feature in Delicious, I found out about Bort, a base Rails application to use as a starting point for creating new Ruby on Rails applications.
Bort features some pretty helpful stuff out of the box, including RESTful_Authentication, RSpec, [...]
- New HarvestEating.com features
We have been working on a new project over the last several months which can be seen at HarvestEating.com. Harvest Eating features local, organic, and seasonal foods and cooking from Chef Keith Snow. The site is full of excellent HD quality recipe/cooking videos, along with a great little social community that is growing every day.
We [...]
- A cool little Ruby on Rails logo icon
I made a nifty little Ruby on Rails logo icon for the footer of a Rails app that I am currently working on and thought it might be of interest to others. If so, grab it and use it as you wish.
- Generating a random number with Ruby
For my web app that I am currently building, I needed a way to generate a random item number for each new item that was posted to the site. Since I am building this app in Rails, I felt pretty sure that Ruby had a great and easy to generate a random number, and I [...]
