It’s been a while since I last wrote a post here. Having moved to Pune late May, I’ve been far too busy settling down in the new place to get an time for the blog. I’m hoping to revive this blog in the coming days.
Despite the fact that I no longer work on ruby [...]
While generating RESTful routes in rails, it is easy to get carried away and generate many levels of nested resources for every level of has_many associations. For instance, I recently wrote something like this in my routes file:
# in config/routes.rb
map.resources :first_resources do |first|
first.resources :second_resources do |second|
[...]
I’ve just been setting up Ubuntu as a virtual OS in my Windows machine using Sun Virtualbox. I did run into a couple of problems initially, so I’m listing out the steps involved in acse somebody else needs some help with the same.
Downlaod Virtualbox from here and install it. You will obviously need Ubuntu as [...]
I had to move an SVN repository for one of my projects from one hosting account to another today. I don’t know much about handling SVN and it took me a bit of searching before I was able to do it, so i’ve written the steps here for anyone else who might be in the [...]
Earlier this week at work I made a presentation for the non-rubyists about how to get started with ruby. There was plenty of discussion about the basics of ruby and how a newbie can get started. I had made a list of useful books and websites that people could use to get started with Ruby [...]
Those of you following this blog or my twitter stream probably know already that I spent last weekend attending RubyConf India in Bangalore. The conference was a huge success and I’m sure it helped inspire a lot of newbies like me.
Day 1
Along with the rest of the team from Foradian, I took a bus to [...]
Bukluv is the idea for an application that I, along with Mohammed Aslam, came up with a few months ago. It is a social networking site for book lovers and allows registered users to post short reviews that are limited to 250 characters.
We’ve been playing around with a very basic version of the app in [...]
I’ve wondered about how rails websites like Railscasts created SEO friendly URLs. I read this post by Obie Fernandez which explains how to do this.
I’ve never had to use SEO friendly URLs in my projects so far and I assumed that generating these URLs is very complicated and some plugin might be at work. And [...]
Google has never been much of a heavyweight in the social networking market. Their latest attempt to dethrone Twitter and Facebook is through Buzz, which turns Gmail into a social networking site. My initial impression about Buzz was positive, but having looked at it for the past week, I have had to change my opinion. Here’s a list of reasons why I don”t like Buzz and would much rather prefer to continue using Twitter.
I registered for RubyConf India 2010 this morning. I was interested in the event anyway, but when the proposal for a presentation on Project Fedena by Arvind was selected that definitely made up my mind. The rest of Team Fedena – developers Aslam and Ralu, and designer Jaseem – have also decided to travel to [...]