Probably the one thing I have found most daunting in ruby on rails development is learning the command line and it’s unix counterparts such as shell scripting. Unfortunately, to be a good rails developer you need to know your way around the terminal. This post is not about setting up ruby on rails, but rather about enhancing your terminal for ruby on rails development.
As usual the PayPal documentation is quite messy and disorganised and thus I thought I’d document how I managed to get PayPal Adaptive working on a marketplace style website.
Tagged: paypal_adaptive, ruby on rails 3This is a comprehensive guide to upgrading a Ruby on Rails 3 application to Rails 3.1. It also includes instructions for updating the compass gem. Lets get started!
Tagged: rails 3.1, rails 3.1 upgrade, Ruby on RailsWhen creating API’s, you want to make it so people can easily make remote requests and in return be given well structured data. Here I discuss why Rails to_json and to_xml methods don’t quite cut it, and what to do instead.
Tagged: rails json, rails xml, Ruby on Rails, xml to jsonWe know Ruby on Rails has something to do with building web applications, but what is it really? Here I give my view of what Rails really is.
Tagged: Ruby on Rails