With the holiday season just beginning, I'm proud to announce that GoRails gets a fresh coat of paint and a bunch of new features to make learning Ruby on Rails that much better. 🎉 Here's some of the awesome new stuff you can check out right ...

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Having spent a significant time over the years playing with various calendar gems, I felt they were all lacking in different ways. Some were overbearing providing you CSS stylesheets when all I wanted was a plain calendar. Others were a bit too in...

As you know, writing code goes far deeper than you probably expected when you first started. Programming is a form of expression, like writing a novel. The better you are able to express your intentions, the better your code will be. Other peo...

A really useful extenison to the Devise authentication gem is [devise_invitable](https://github.com/scambra/devise_invitable). It adds invitation functionality that can be used for building a referral system or just general email invitations to yo...

Having been a [Devise](https://github.com/plataformatec/devise) user and contributor for several years, I was happy to give the book [Learning Devise For Rails](http://www.packtpub.com/learning-devise-for-rails/book) a review. The functionality th...

If you've never checked out [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org/) before, I'd very much encourage you to. It's a NoSQL document store that makes for a very interesting method of development compared to relational databases. We've been using it a lot ...

Bundler has always been one of the slowest parts of fiddling with a Rails application, but it's always been a pretty essential tool for any Ruby or Rails application. A quote from the [Github issue](https://github.com/bundler/bundler/pull/2481...

As we all begin transitioning to Rails 4.0 and `strong_params` there are going to be a fair amount of changes to our gems and other integrations. Since the attr_accessible functionality no longer exists inside our models, we need to move this into...

*Another great post by [@rncrtr](http://twitter.com/rncrtr) talks about running multiple versions of the Rails webserver locally. It can be useful for many different things, for example, if you want to test to see if your load balancer is working ...

*I was perusing Twitter today and came across a recent post by [@rncrtr](http://twitter.com/rncrtr) about the differences between Ruby 1.8 style and Ruby 1.9 style symbols. You can find his original post at [his website here](http://rncrtr.in/rail...

The most popular CSS framework, Bootstrap is about to be reborn. We've used Boostrap 2.0 for quite a while now and a lot of major changes have been in the works. Lots of class names are getting changed as well as the structure of how things will b...

It's been a fantastic run for older versions of Ruby and Rails. I'm sure we all have lots of great memories with them, nice walks at the park, riding bicycles together, bowling, etc. But unfortunately it's time for us to say our goodbyes. Neith...

One of the first things to understand about web development is the four different HTTP requests. Today we are going to dive into them at a high level. ## HTTP GET The most common HTTP request is the GET method. This is simply retrieving a re...

As we build software, a lot of us get caught up in Rails. You build your application around Rails' suggestions and before you know it, you're really stuck. Just because Rails gives you controllers, models, and helpers doesn't mean your code needs ...

Playing with a new Rails 4.0 application the other day was great fun. Today I upgraded to the latest release, Rails 4.0.0.rc1 and got the following error: ``` NameError: uninitialized constant ActionDispatch::Session::EncryptedCookieStore ~/....

Frank Webber recorded a great video on removing if statements from your code just recently. The result is a pretty strong refactor that removes the complexity involved with large if statements. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www...

GoRails is an idea I've been tossing around in the back of my mind for quite a while. There are fantastic resources out there like Railscasts, RubyTapas, the Rails Tutorial, and yet, even combining them all, I still wanted more. Each person brings...