I wanted to try out some of the new Ruby on Rails 2.0 features in Leopard, so I may as well blog my notes here for future reference. 1. Update Gems Use this if you haven't ugpraded your system to Rails 2.0 yet. sudo gem update --system # Update "gems" itself sudo gem install rails... Continue Reading →
ActiveResource: The RESTful standard
One of the coolest if under-hyped features of RESTful Ruby on Rails is ActiveResource. This allows you to treat any other RESTful Rails app as a database backend, providing an ActiveRecord like object model for abstracting that web service.Though changing slightly for Rails 2.0 (to use "/" instead of ";" as a parameter separator), this is becoming the de-facto standard for... Continue Reading →
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