Working with Ruby
Hi, I am Jan. This is my old Ruby blog. I still post about Ruby, but I now do it on idiosyncratic-ruby.com. You should also install Irbtools to improve your IRB.

The CARB stack: Coffee + Angular + Rails + Bower

AngularJS is a great way to build modern web apps and this affects Rails programmers. The combination of both is an excellent choice: Build your single-page app in Angular and let it communicate via JSON with your Rails-API backend (btw, this is exactly what we did for palava). However, you might ask yourself, what the best way to combine Angular and Rails is. Should you use the JavaScript tools world (grunt, yoeman, etc.) or should you prefer the Ruby tools (thor, sprockets)?

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Three little tips for slimmer Rails migrations

Rails migrations are easy to understand and easy to write. However, you can save some unnecessary key strokes by applying these three tips :)

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♥ .railsrc / rails console snippets

13 Rails-specific hints for your rails 3 console.

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The has_many_booleans Rails plugin

has_many_booleans is an ActiveRecord plugin which creates virtual boolean attributes for a model. When the object gets saved, the plugin transforms all attributes into a single integer, using a bitset. So you can easily add new attributes without changing the database structure.

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Upgrading to Rails 3: Obstacles and helper scripts

Transferring an existing project to Rails 3 is not that hard, but it usually cannot be done in 5 minutes.

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PlasmaRails.org

plasmarails.org

PlasmaRails.org is an online RDoc for Edge Rails, which is regenerated every day. It is based on sdoc with some custom css.

Update 06.06.2010: Relaunched with better stylesheets!

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