More Rails Fun: Beyond The Silly Examples
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 -
It's late in the day, my IPA that's been fermenting now for 10 days has a wonderful sour/bandaid taste (the yeast was crap evidently), and a hurricane is making it's way slowly towards us. Not really conducive to work so I thought I'd muck around with Rails a bit and make y'all a screencast that "goes beyond" the sticky sweet stuff and shows you how easy it is to extend and build out your application.
Specifically - Rails comes with a console application that will wrap your website and allow you to work with your models and controllers directly through a console. Very groovy. It also has a very cool plugin structure that allows you to go get code that other people have written and install it in your application right quick - I'll show you how to do that too.
All good stuff and a fun way to kill 20 minutes :). Hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any questions!
If you want to see the other Rails webcasts I've done, you can watch them here:
Why Am I Doing This?
I find Rails inspirational. It's a treat to play with and to work in and I think everyone should learn a new language or platform every year as part of "rounding out" your experience!
The bandaid/sour thing makes me think wild yeast, but I could be wrong on that.
Just kegged a big IPA and a Pumpkin saison last night myself. Good luck with the crazy weather and keep up the good work on Subsonic, It has certainly saved me a ton of time on my current project.
I picked up ruby/rails about 1 year ago and play with it on the side. I'm a Rails hobbyist until I get paid to do it full-time which is when I'll really get my hands dirty and learn it inside-out.
but I think learning any new language/framework is beneficial to developers - it opens your mind up to new ideas...which can and often does lead to great things.
And a relief to hear that Weke Road and the Islands were spared from the bad weather.