Here are 19 Rails Tricks Most Ruby Coders Did Not Know — until the article was published… I liked the pointer about using BackgroundRB to run long running tasks (in the background).
Tags: coding, hints, How To, programming, rails, Ruby, ruby on rails, scripting, tips, tricks
RadRails is the Eclipse-based IDE for Ruby on Rails. Learn about installing RadRails, the structure and use of the application window, and the primary steps in developing an application. Ruby on Rails has hit the big time. With that popularity has come the desire by developers for an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes Rails even more accessible. RadRails, a Eclipse-based environment, fulfills that need for many developers.
This article introduces the RadRails IDE
Tags: application development, developer, developing, development, IDE, programmer, programming, RoR, Ruby, ruby on rails, Web 2.0
I stumbled upon this interesting article this morning: How to Be a Programmer. But it is not all about bits and bytes and has an interesting section on How to Utilize People as Information Sources. If you are a real geek (as in nerdy geek), you might need to read How to Talk to Non-Engineers. And here is a real gem: How to Document Wisely…
” Life is too short to write crap nobody will read; if you write crap, nobody will read it.”
Tags: documentation, engineer, geek, nerd, people skills, programming, technical writing, wisdom
An unofficial Python Tutorial is at growing in the InfoGami wiki system. It has a nice layout and the code examples are easy to read. See for instance the section on Python Modules, or the Brief Tour of the Standard Python Library. I just really appreciate it when the page layout is so clean and easy to read, code examples sprinkled like spice — which makes this technical documentation for Python easy to study.
Tags: code examples, documentation, How To, programming, Python, scripting, tutorial