Category Archives: RoR

Rails Association

Posted on June 4, 2014 by fangstar

Spent a day learning how about associations.  Realized that has_and belongs to and the necessary join table isn’t as easy to use as creating a regular join model table and use has_many :through. Join Table = create_join_table Join Model Table = … Continue reading →

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Rails here we go

Posted on June 2, 2014 by fangstar

Finally moving forward to redoing a website that is all DB driven to a Rails platform.  Designing DB schema and models. woot.  Wish I could bring in a Rails consultant though

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RoR 4.0.2 issues

Posted on February 13, 2014 by fangstar

gem “mongoid”, github: “mongoid/mongoid” kept giving me the error: fatal: read error: Connection reset by peer Git error: command `git clone ‘git://github.com/mongoid/mongoid.git’ “/home/mfang/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/cache/bundler/git/mongoid-176c799a8a4589043b073e277e545d697119fa82” –bare –no-hardlinks` in directory /home/mfang/dev/ror/aws-iar_mygitstation has failed. Changed it to gem “mongoid”,  :git => ‘https://github.com/mongoid/mongoid.git’ Now it … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails Tutorial – Chapter 5

Posted on July 21, 2013 by fangstar

This chapter is more about front end web page changing portion and using TDD to do coding.  I like how it’s always adding a test case first, make sure it fails, then add code to make it work. Really drives … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails Tutorial – Chapter 4

Posted on July 20, 2013 by fangstar

This chapter is mostly about Ruby syntax. Skip or skim Part 4.1 is OK since there’s an example of using a function to populate the <title>.      

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Ruby on Rails Tutorial – Chapter 3

Posted on July 20, 2013 by fangstar

Best to look within the GitHub project to write the correct Gemfile. If you see the error that visit is undefined, in the Gemfile add group :test do gem ‘capybara’, ‘1.1.2’ end Then do bundle install –without production Pretty pointless … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Chapter 2

Posted on July 18, 2013 by fangstar

Pretty simple chapter. Got through it within an hour.  After working on CakePHP there is quite a bit of similarities between the two MVC frameworks.  Glad I got some work in on CakePHP to prepare me for this. OK spoke … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails Tutorial: first_app deployment

Posted on July 17, 2013 by fangstar

Man took to 3 days to setup RoR and get the first_app successfully deployed. Advice if you’re using windows, use some virtualization and use Linux.  Actually follow the Gemfile instructions as is. Even better would be to use the Gemfile … Continue reading →

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Ruby on Rails Tutorial

Posted on July 15, 2013 by fangstar

Goal from now until the end of August is to finish the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book. I’m reading the book through Safari but just found the link to it online this online book is better updated than the published book. … Continue reading →

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