Posts Tagged ‘Ruby’

Plug-ins, Security and Frustration

Really nothing to post on except my increasing level of frustration with Rails security plug-ins and my domain model. This shouldn’t be that difficult given: There are multiple clinical facilities Users can belong to more than one facility Users can have different roles at each facility The application supports an HTML interface as well as [...]

KB: WEBrick SSL Configuration

WEBrick SSL Configuration

The Prodigal Developer Returns to Rails

It has been two days since I posted an article on auditing data modifications using the Zend Framework. I have recently published a number of other articles on Zend in general. I noticed a recurring statement that forced me to rethink the pursuit of using alternative frameworks for openEPRS: “X is easier with Ruby on [...]

Ruby on Rails – Part 3

Blocks are an integral part of the Ruby language. While some aspects of blocks are easy to understand, they can be a source of confusion for developers new to Ruby. With a background in C style languages, I tried to understand Ruby blocks within the context of C function pointers and Java anonymous inner classes.

Ruby on Rails – Part 2

My previous article Ruby on Rails Part 1, touched briefly on my experiences installing Ruby, Rails and RadRails. Now that I was ready to start coding, I purchased the expectional tome “Agile Web Development with Rails (Second Edition)” by Dave Thomas and others.

Ruby on Rails – Part 1

One of my New Year resolutions for 2007 is to learn Ruby and Rails. This is the first of a multi-part series documenting my progress and general impressions, it is not a tutorial or in depth analysis of the language.