Have you ever hesitated when trying to refactor a controller for simplicity? Sure, you know how to write a controller so that it “works”. You even know how to organize your controllers in a resource-oriented, RESTful way. But when it comes to understanding the purpose of controllers, they’ve always seemed a bit fuzzy. And they’ve […]
Posts Tagged ‘rails’
Tutorial for Adding Tabs to Rails Using Tabulous
March 4th, 2011
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This tutorial shows you how to make a simple Rails application from scratch that has both tabs and subtabs.
Introducing Tabulous: Tabs in Rails
March 2nd, 2011
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If you’re like me, most of the Rails applications you’ve written use tabbed navigation. And if you’re like me, you find that writing the code to handle tabs becomes increasingly more boring with each new application. So I wrote tabulous. Tabulous aims to solve this problem once and for all with a quick and easy way to set up and manage your tabs.
Installing Rails 3 Beta with RVM and Ruby 1.8.7
February 7th, 2010
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Jeremy McAnally posted some great instructions on installing Rails 3 beta. When I tried to install Rails 3 it complained that my Ruby version needed to be at least 1.8.7. Fair enough, I only had 1.8.6, and it was about time I upgraded.