Some time ago I wrote about how I was struggling to understand how the new style RESTful controllers work. In particular, it struck me that everything became a noun, when verbs were equally important.
After a few months of actually using RESTful Rails, I’m still struggling. The new-style controllers are significantly simpler (in particular [...]

I rewrote my application to take advantage of the new Restful Urls in Rails (an article on this coming up). I also got rid of the messy session-managed login code and thought I would use a nice and easy HTTP authentication scheme (so my eventual API can use the same mechanism as the main [...]

This may be obvious but as it took me a little while to figure it out, I thought I’d share it with you.
If you want you have default values, the easiest way is to set your defaults within the table. But often, that is too late. In your new action, you [...]

On my new project I have just taken the decision to fix the page width. Each controller must decide whether to use the ‘narrow’ or ‘wide’ layouts - these are identical apart from the width given to the “main_content” div: 750px and 1200px respectively.
Why those values? Well, my target market is [...]

Since I started this blog (or at least refocused my occasional ramblings on using Rails with IIS and SQL Server) I have been meaning to write an article all about adapting your application to work with Rails. Well, this is that article. However, it’s not what I intended it to be, for reasons [...]