I’ve just had a logo and design done for Furld. I am pleased with the design but it was supplied in HTML and CSS rather than HTML5 and CSS3 so I want to convert it at the same time as I turn it into a WordPress theme. I like HTML5 Boilerplate by Paul Irish […]
The Stack To run WordPress locally you will need Apache, MySQL, and PHP installed. Although OS X comes with some of these it is more convenient to use MAMP. MAMP comes in a free version and a Pro version, for my purposes the free version should be fine. Installation is just copying a folder from […]
Overview HTML5 provides some great functionality but also, potentially, some headaches. HTML5 Boilerplate is a template which aims to solve the various cross-browser differences. There is a gem to use HTML5 Boilerplate in a rails app which uses Compass to build the CSS. Using Compass on Heroku requires a small workaround as Heroku limits where […]
Devise is probably the most popular authentication gem for Rails apps but, in the current version (1.1.5), doesn’t fully support logging in with a username and password. This Railscast walks through how to add a username to the model and use username as the key to log in with but 1.1.5 will still require email […]
Even with RubyMine starting a new project is not simply File, New Project, like the rails new command, it can only take you so far. It’s not complicated to set up a new Rails project but, as something you are likely to do farily infrequently, it is easy to skip or forget steps or commands. […]
Ruby gems are packages that add functionality to the core Ruby libraries. Each gem normally provides functionality in a specific area and can depend on other gems. Rails is a Ruby gem. Presumably, in the past, gem versioning caused problems for Ruby devs which has led to the development of a couple of tools: RVM […]
Rails Rails seems to consist of two parts, a set of components to build an application on top of and a command line tool to help this process. The reason the rails command is so useful is the amount of convention in a Rails app: Certain files with certain names are expected in certain locations. […]
Ruby (and Rails) seem to be designed to make the code look very like natural language. This makes the code very easy to read but less easy (for someone new to Ruby) to write. It seems like there is a lot you are required to know, although maybe a Ruby programmer looking at CSharp for […]
Most of my programming career has revolved around Microsoft technologies, starting with Visual Basic 3, up through the various versions to VB.Net, then switching to CSharp shortly after DotNet came out of beta. I think I know the MS development stack fairly well and I like the direction they are moving in with the likes […]
Whilst the previous post (BDD with SpecFlow, NUnit and MVC3–More View a List Of Products) got the job done, it could have done it a lot better. After a conversation on Twitter and in the comments on the previous post with Darren Cauthon (@darrencauthon, http://www.cauthon.com) and Marcus Hammarberg (@marcusoftnet, http://www.marcusoft.net), there are three areas where […]