Handy Rails Tips

When working on your apps, it’s really easy to lose track of the things you still need to do.

Rails is constantly evolving. Although each new version of Rails is (usually) an improvement on the last, upgrading to the latest version can sometimes lead to annoying problems with your existing apps. For example, when upgrading to Rails 2.3.2, you may have found your earlier apps raise exceptions due to...

If your app allows members of the public to sign up and create a new user account, to post comments or discussion entries, it’s important to maintain some control over the information they can enter.

mp3_player is a simple plugin I built to play mp3s online through my rails application.

For those of you out there with your own blog who want to style your snippets of code to look like your favourite text editor, here is a simplified version of the method I’ve used here on Handy Rails Tips.