Rubyology
Summary: The Rubyology podcast is a series of lessons learned by Chris Matthieu on his endeavor of switching from Microsoft .NET programming to Ruby on Rails. Believe it or not, there are similarities between both Micorost ASP and .NET and Ruby on Rails. Let Chris show you how to get up and running on Rails and become proficient with Ruby with little effort. Learn AJAX tricks, tagging, buddy lists, rating, and other Web 2.0 social network programming techniques and get your idea to market today! While you are at it, check out the Rubyology.com website for code snippets and additional show information.
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- Artist: Chris Matthieu
- Copyright: Copyright 2007 Chris Matthieu
Podcasts:
Okay Code Monkeys it's time to deploy our Ruby on Rails application to a hosting provider! I'll walk you through the necessary Subversion, Secure Shell, and Capistrano steps required to launch your application. Here is the link to SteelPixel's wiki page of deployment goodness: http://steelpixel.stikipad.com/support/
This Rubyology screencast expands on the Web 2.0 Domain Randomizer routine by looking up web domain availability of those being generated by our Ruby Rand function. We are demonstrating the open-uri function in this screencast.
This Rubyology screencast will focus on the Ruby random function and should serve as a refresher on arrays and hashes as well as looping. The source code to our example is provided below: # Rubyology Screencast - Web 2.0 Name Randomizer 10.times do letters = { ?v = 'aeiou', ?c = 'bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz'} word = '' 'cvcvc'.each_byte do |x| source = letters[x] word
Learn how to add AJAX to your Web 2.0 Ruby on Rails application using the link_to_remote tag and the form_remote_tag. I also briefly cover the script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript library and the auto_complete_for feature used in my Chug'd site (http://chugd.com)!
Ruby supports many methods of looping logic. This Rubyology screencast will show you 7 different looping structures that can be used in your Ruby or Ruby on Rails applications.
Check out some of the cool time functions supported by Ruby!
This Rubyology screencast demonstrates tips and tricks of using arrays or hashes in Ruby.
This episode of Rubyology explores the concept of the Rails MVC (Model, View, Controller) and how basic Rails applications work. We also walk through the creation of a very simple scaffolding exercise and discuss CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) and various Rails files including helpers, partials, layout, and CSS. Grab your coffee and geek out with me!
Our first screencast developed to offer programming tips and tricks on Ruby. This screencast covers basic string manipulation.
This episode will explain the various pre-packaged Ruby on Rails framework deployment solutions as well as walk you through the full deployment of Ruby 1.8.5, Rails 1.2.2, Subversion, Capistrano, Mongrel, and MySQL.
Welcome to Rubyology! Let me introduce myself and explain why I am excited about Ruby on Rails web software development.
