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Ruby Beauty – Optional Parentheses on Method Calls

By Damien White | Published: April 8, 2010

Continuing with my exploration of Ruby as a .NET guy, here’s another example of Ruby’s expressive syntax in action.  I decided to add bite size snippets of some of the cool things I encountered in Ruby and Rails.  If you are interested in more, see my other Ruby posts. Optional parentheses on method calls are [...]

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Installing Ruby on Rails on Windows

By Damien White | Published: April 6, 2010

So it’s not like this doesn’t exist elsewhere on the ‘net, but in case you stumbled upon one of my other Ruby on Rails posts and I caught your interest, here’s how to get started developing Rails apps on Windows.  If you’re a little resistant to try Rails, look how simple the install is.  What [...]

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Ruby on Rails Shared Hosting Mongrel Issues

By Damien White | Published: April 1, 2010

I have had just about nothing but issues getting my Rails application running on my shared host.  I’m not going to mention the company since they have been somewhat helpful, however I’m not thrilled with them.  I don’t want to give them any good or bad press without giving them a fair chance.  I’ve been [...]

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Ruby on Rails Shared Hosting Gem Issue

By Damien White | Published: March 31, 2010

I recently signed up on a shared hosting plan for playing around with Ruby on Rails apps.  I finally had an app roughly together, and I wanted to test out my deployment using Capistrano.  I was able to configure my deploy.rb file so everything uploaded correctly, and figured that was the hardest bit.  Little did [...]

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My Affair with Ruby on Rails

By Damien White | Published: March 25, 2010

As I’m sure most of you know, I’m a hardcore C#/.NET guy.  The majority of my work as been on the web, and I’ve been using ASP.NET since the earliest betas.  ASP.NET’s profound effect on web development is still going strong to this day.  For me, the first choice for web application development has been [...]

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