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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Recently I was trying to find ways to import data from excel spreadsheets into the database in a rails project. We needed to save the data from the client’s excel file into the database. Here’s how it can be done using a rake task.
The file will have to be in CSV format, so you’ll have [...]
Find out how to set up ruby on rails development environment on windows.
About a week ago at work, I was asked to evaluate Ruby Encoder, an application to encrypt the source code of your ruby application.
Normally, you wouldn’t want to encrypt the source code of your ruby applications. The code resides on your server and there’s no way anyone else can access it. However, if you are [...]
Today, while working on my Ruby on Rails project, I got a “500 – Internal server error” page soon after I tried to run the project after running a migration. There was nothing else on the screen except for that one line.
I tried a few things, like restarting NetBeans, and opening another project to see [...]