Nov 18, 2010 @ 02:30 pm

MongoDB is an opensource document-oriented database in the vein of CouchDB. It’s been a while since I wanted to try this kind of database on a Rails project. After reading this nice tutorial today I decided to take some time to create a sample Rails 3 app and put it on github.
I chose to use [...]

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Jun 29, 2010 @ 12:12 pm

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 [...]

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Apr 06, 2010 @ 11:09 am

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 [...]

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