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More Rails Fun: Beyond The Silly Examples

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!

You can watch it here...

If you want to see the other Rails webcasts I've done, you can watch them here:

All about Rails

Rails Testing

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!

Keyes avatar
Keyes says:
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
I had no idea you were a brewer as well. Been doing it long?

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.

kevin avatar
kevin says:
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
rob, I totally agree.

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.

Jim Bonnie avatar
Jim Bonnie says:
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Nice sampling of some cool features. You can see how you are tryng to bring some of this goodness to ASP.NET - Thanks!

And a relief to hear that Weke Road and the Islands were spared from the bad weather.

McGurk avatar
McGurk says:
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
I got a question.... What do you use to create your webcasts? The output it slick as hell, and I would love to use it for my work.


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