Stephen Provis

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Ruby, haml and sass make everything ok

As a relatively new coder of Ruby on Rails the last few months have been a big learning curve, the MCV (Model, Controller, View) approach is new to me and getting my head around the way RoR deals with this coding model has been long and confusing, the amount of time I’ve spent trying to work out why my code isn’t working is ridiculous. A lot of the problems have been due to me trying to rush into things without really having the background knowledge to know what I’m doing.

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Posted 6 months, 2 weeks ago at 2:22 AM.

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Walkthrough for installing Ruby and Rails on a clean (new) installation of Ubuntu.

Assumptions:

  • Ubuntu has just been installed

Steps:

  • Installing Apache2
  • Installing MySQL
  • Installing Ruby
  • Installing RubyGems
  • Installing Rails
  • Installing Essential Gems and Plugins
  • Setting Gems in Environment.rb

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Posted 8 months ago at 11:47 AM.

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Heh about time I did something with this site

With the darkness drawing in I think I’ll have a bit of spare time to do something with this site….

Idea’s on a postcard

Posted 10 months, 1 week ago at 10:17 AM.

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