Ruby on rails is rapidly becoming a popular tool for developing professionally strong & reliable web applications. It may be the open source nature, or the light nature of the RESTful web services or probably the endless number of features contributed by third party developers. Nevertheless, today, many companies are making millions developing masterpieces on [...]
Author Archives: Ernest
Building web applications
Ever translated your phrases online, just to impress your chat buddy? It might have looked a lot easier – pasting your query (in your native language) and translating it with just a small click. But take it from me; the applet you have just used has a far more complicated background & history. Though many [...]
From Snails to “Ruby on Rails”
You are probably wondering about the hundreds of successful websites making a mark on the Internet every day. You might ask yourself – “How can some many people learn those complicated technologies all at once” or “How are so many website owners rich enough to hire professional developers”? Well, the secret lies elsewhere; a secret [...]
Why Corporate Geeks Hate Ruby
There is a very huge opposition when it comes to enterprise use for industry which is because of the mere fact that when ruby was created, it took the bad and ugly of the internet and the way it works, add to that lessons learned from industry applications and then coming up with a totally [...]
The significance of graphic design contest when designing your website
Normally, you will notice when a newbie enters a web business, he finds difficult to choose a particular web design. There are many web designs available as a pre designed template. Many web hosting firms do provide you with an option to choose from a range of pre-designed templates and put them on your site, [...]
Why ruby on rails should be based on good host
Although, there are many notable uses of ruby programming language, but there is one major use of the language and that is by the rails. Rails are a web-programming framework, and it has extensive use for web application purposes. The use of rails with ruby has created a very different platform for web application. The [...]
Dragonfly -Ruby Image Manager Extraordinaire
Ever wanted to get your hand on some graphics management app that can make the job easier? The norm is to have images developed once they are uploaded so having Dragonfly around makes life a whole lot easier for app developers who get images generated as they are needed. No need for huge resource overheads [...]
Yield – Continued
The previous post using the yield statement gives us the following output which shows the ease of using blocks in programs which can be used to pass on parameters to the other parts of the same statement. The code from the previous post gives the output: Hi There Hi There Hi There The code between [...]