I’ve read a couple of Ruby and Ruby on Rails books now and for those who wonder which book is right for them, I want to give recommendations. Ruby Books: My favourite ruby book is the “The Ruby Programming Language” from O’Reillys shelf. It is written by David Flanagan (author of Javascript, The Definitive Guide) […]
When I started learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails I was introduced to the concept of symbols. You are using a lot of symbols in Rails and it feels somewhat natural after a while but when you try to explain newbies what these symbols are actually good for, it is really hard to describe. It […]
I’m currently working on the software (called CCCash) which will be used to sell the tickets at the Chaos Comunication Camp 2007. During the development process we had a strange bug which we couldn’t really figure out. Pandur, who is also working on the software and who is more experienced than me in terms of […]
I found several and somewhat complex solutions for this particular problem but actually it’s a no-brainer once you know. Simply type: hukl$ script/server -h => Booting Mongrel (use ‘script/server webrick’ to force WEBrick) Usage: server [options] -p, –port=port Runs Rails on the specified port. Default: 3000 -b, –binding=ip Binds Rails to the specified ip. Default: […]
In the past it has been quite difficult to get RubyOnRails running on you Mac OS X but I just found out that all the pain has vanished. Especially the setup guides on the rubyonrails.org website are a little confusing because most of them are outdated. So if any of you are still interested how […]