Archive for the ‘Ruby on Rails’ Category

Resources :as

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

map.resources :people

generates URLs like:

/people/

map.resources :people, :as => ‘who-we-are’

/who-we-are/

DB Adapter specific code in migrations

Monday, May 25th, 2009

adapter = User.connection.instance_variable_get(“@config”)[:adapter]

if adapter == “jdbc” # Oracle

# …

elsif adapter == “postgresql” # Postgres

# …

end

NZ on Screen wins Best Entertainment Website

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

NZ on Screen won the Best Entertainment Website award at the 2009 Qantas Media Awards.

Ruby on Rails

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Ruby on Rails is a web development framework that promotes good programming practices while supporting rapid application development.

Ruby is a programming language developed in the mid 1990′s. Rails is an MVC (model view controller) framework.

References:

Ruby on Rails [wikipedia]

Ruby [wikipedia]