Leveraging Active Record reflections

Learning Rails 3

Rails 3 is a pretty big framework and brings a few new things to the table. Where to start learning it?

Impostor syndrome and BOMTYCC problems

How can you keep improving on your own, when you're always afraid of not being good enough?

Data wrangling and Ruby metaprogramming

See how metaprogramming in Ruby can make some tasks more palatable.

Adding a namespaced Rails generator to a standalone Ruby gem

Contributing to open source

Making your first open source contribution can be daunting, but we'll make it straightforward.

Why Service-Oriented Architecture makes sense

Self-marking required fields in Rails 3

Automatically marking required fields in HTML forms, based on ActiveRecord validators.

Your laptop is a liability

Make sure having your laptop stolen or otherwise compromised won't be a stressful event.

Consuming a public Rails API with jQuery

Consuming a public API with a cross-domain request using jQuery.