A quick and easy tip today. It won’t impress the veteran ruby developer, but it will impress every ruby newcomers, guaranteed!
Say I have a horse racing ruby application that allow people to know information about every competing horses. I have an input box that people can use to enter the name of a horse. Once [...]

You want a RESTful Rails app with a backend administration? The worst thing to do in my opinion is to use the same controllers for the public and the admin side. At first, it might look wise to do this. I mean, if you have a “books” resource, it would be logical that all methods [...]

What if you want to generate reasonably short alphanumeric user activation codes without having to store anything in a DB (so in this case generating random user codes won’t do) ? Why would someone need this? Think about an application where you want to print activation cards and sell them to your customers. The customer [...]