This short screencast is one that I recorded back in 2012 to demonstrate the power of Ruby on Rails to a client.

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One of the great things about Ruby on Rails is its philosophy of Convention over Configuration. Simply put, this means that developers are encouraged to name and organise their code in specific ways, and to stick to these naming principles wherever possible. The benefit of CoC is that developers spend...

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This is a nasty and naughty hack, and one I’m abashedly apologetic for.

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Recently I was working on a project which required various permissions for each controller. A user could have permission to access one feature of the site but not another.

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For my personal homepage I wanted to load the latest tips from Handy Rails Tips as well as my most recent Tweets on twitter. As these resources are stored on different sites from my homepage, there was a little lag when loading the landing page.

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