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HTML5 Mobile Apps With Ruby Code?

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:29:15 +0000

Interesting interview with Ryan Singer who works at 37signals. He gave this interview after he did a talk at the ‘future of web apps’ conference earlier this year. The one thing thats I think is really interesting is that 37signals is working on a new way of making mobile phone apps with HTML5. They don’t like the way how they are building mobile apps right now.

So the people at 37signals are working on a new development process for building HTML5 phone apps. Ryan said “It’s basically like rails but all build on a javascript”. They use CoffeeScript which is doing javascript but looks like ruby and for the templates they are using eco. Eco lets you embed CoffeeScript logic in your markup, eco looks like the rails erb files. So this ruby inspired way of making mobile phone apps looks like the rails development process 37signals is currently using. I’m looking forward to see it go open source.

Ryan Singer at Future of Web Apps, London 2010 from Ryan Singer on Vimeo.

Learning Ruby on Rails

admin — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:41:10 +0000

Some quick tips on how to learn Ruby on Rails.

1. Start learning Ruby with “Learn to Program” by Chris Pine

If you want to learn Rails first you need to know a bit about programming in general. Chris Pine learns you all the basic things about programming in the Ruby language. He explains things like Array’s, Strings, Hashes and if else statements are. I highly recommend to start with this ruby tutorial. This way you have a good basic set of skills to make you a good Rails programmer. You can buy his book Learn to Program or you can do the tutorial on his website.

2. Rails for Zombies

Rails for Zombies is a pretty easy and good solution if you want to learn the basics of Ruby on Rails. You dont need to install anything on your computer just watch the video and do some exercises in the browser afterwards.

3. Railstutorial.org

The first two tips are about learning ruby and getting started with rails. Railstutorial.org explains the whole process of building an application in Rails. It starts with installing the right version of ruby and rails on your computer so you can get an app running locally. In the tutorial they are going to make a demo application that looks like twitter. While making the application they learn you how to programme in Ruby on Rails.

Railstutorial.org is the best way to learn Ruby on Rails. The website explains the whole process of building a website in rails. Step by step they explain the nature of a rails app, how to work with git, understanding Model View Controller and Test Driven Development. You can read the book online for free or buy the pdf for 39 Dollar.

RubyEnRails 2009

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:07:08 +0000

Today I’m together with Harmen Haan at RubyEnRails 2009 in Amsterdam! Good talks today about ruby, rails and jQuery. The most interesting speakers were from the members of the rails core team. Jeremy Kemper and Yehuda Katz were talking about Rails3! To Quote Yehuda “Its just better”.

For the people who are not there you can follow the twitterstream via #RER2009. And there are some slides uploaded today. I know there was a video camera, so they are online soon i think.

There is one slide from Eloy Duran online about Mac Ruby!

Slides by Eloy Duran – Mac ruby

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