While I think the venerable Ruby on Rails Tutorial is still the best way to learn Rails, jumping into this tutorial can be challenging for those who are new to programming. With the fourth and latest beta of Rails 5 being released this past week, it is appropriate that Michael Hartl, the creator of the … Read more
I was looking at the cached pages on the Wayback Machine and decided to find out if that site had an API. (It does.) I wanted to find a way to use this API to submit links to the Wayback Machine database. As it turns out, a Ruby gem called WaybackArchiver has already been written … Read more
The most widely known way (which is also often described as the best way) to learn Ruby on Rails is the Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. Its third edition, which covers Rails 4, has been available as both a digital book and video screencasts for several months on Hartl’s Rails Tutorial website, but was just … Read more