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Practical Rails Projects

Takes a focused approach to guiding you through the creation of multiple real-world examples that are designed to get your hands dirty with the core features of Rails, while providing you with the valuable experience of creating real Rails applications.

 

Foundation Rails 2

Foundation Rails 2 takes you through your first steps in Rails, explaining in plain English how to start building dynamic web applications. And there's never been a better time to jump in to the Rails world, as the release of Rails 2 is a major evolutionary leap forward from previous versions.

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Monday
16Mar2009

Simplifying FAQ's with jQuery

To kick things off here on the new blog with a little code - I thought I'd share a quick refactoring that I did recently.

You see at my current employer, I've inherited a crap-load of legacy code that was written by a large number of developers of various skill levels. So every day is a bit of an adventure where one day I'm pleasantly surprised by how well some functionality was designed and written - and other days.....

Well let's just say that some sections of the code make me want to rip my own eyeballs out of my skull.

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