Learn to Program (using Ruby)
I'm trying to get my head around Ruby (and Rails, and HAML) and this is proving a good start. Obviously you need Ruby installed first (which wasn't all that straightforward, not in Windows at any...
View ArticleRuby on Rails beginners club in Birmingham: are you interested?
For months I’ve been having conversations with people about how we should set up a Rails beginners group in Birmingham, so now I’m actually going to do it. I realise that even among beginners there...
View ArticleScratching my head over Rails
I’m trying to teach myself Rails, but I’m not even a programmer. So when I’m stumped, I’m fairly stumped. Currently my app is not saving form data when it should be, and redirecting when it shouldn’t....
View ArticleA Beginner’s Sinatra Tutorial
In my desperate attempt to grapple with Ruby, people keep introducing me to new and ‘better’ ways to use it, before I’ve had a chance to understand what I was doing with the previous one they lauded....
View ArticleCreating Database-driven Apps with Sinatra
Sinatra itself has useful help pages, but (so far) this the best tutorial I’ve found. Creating Database-driven Apps with Sinatra
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