Introduction Ruby on Rails as Excellent Programming language What is Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails is a technology that allows you to develop dynamic Web sites geared the database and web applications – similar to many other programming languages such as PHP or ASP. However, despite being younger than these two languages, Ruby on [...]
Ruby on Rails is a web development tool that has gained sudden popularity! Originally, the programming language by the name of Ruby was formulated. However, it was not as successful as expected. Later on, ‘37 Signals’ developed the programming language called Rails for use within the company using Ruby. This combination of Ruby and Rails [...]
Ruby on Rails being an absolutely free open source excellent award winning web development application and content management system that would take your website to greater heights of success as compared to your competitors and makes the web application development services much easier than other. Ruby on Rails uses the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture pattern to [...]
I have been working with Ruby and independently with Ruby on Rails for a few years now and although I am really familiar with Gems I have managed to avoid ever creating one myself – recently I had to convert an existing project to a gem and I realise how foolish I was not to “gemify” it from day one. I’m going to talk through the process I went through to help anyone in a similar situation out but mostly to persuade you to create things as Gems from the start of the project.
This is mainly just a quick reference for myself because I keep getting this error and have to search the internet for the solution. Basic problem is that on Ubuntu gems that use the nokogiri library for XML parsing require libxml2 which isn’t usually installed.
Building Martel Maides a new website was a fairly large undertaking and involved a website build, plenty of custom functionality as well as a complex integration project with their existing back-end system. The website look and feel was provided by a third-party designer and my task was to build the entire site from the ground up including some elements of design, but mostly a large amount of HTML and back-end code which in this case was Ruby.
Find was a joint venture between myself and two collegues that intends to satisfy a niche in the Guernsey market. Many websites exist throughout the UK that offer used cars, estate agents and property etc. but with Guernsey having difficult import/export issues as well as being isoldated from the point of view of commuting – a customer from Guernsey has very little use of UK wide searches.
A moderately complicated Ruby on Rails site that collects risk questionnaire answers and scores them, while maintaining a strict workflow.
Despite the project still being in the early stages of development I managed to get to the final of Schroders sponsored Bright Young Things and received some great advise from my mentor Julian Winser. I’m sure this will all be a great help in the long-term development of this creative agency workflow tool. It even [...]
As the companies creative team (web and traditional) grew, we required a system for managing our briefing system. I designed and wrote briefus to meet this need. All members of our marketing department have access to the system and are able to create new briefs. One of the creative team leaders then assigns the brief [...]