This year at the final RailsConf, the atmosphere was incredibly nostalgic and celebratory, if perhaps a little bittersweet. Many of the talks spent time looking back on how far we've come, including Robby Russell's "The Rails Features We Loved, Lost, and Laughed At". Robby's talk brought back to light an old library that I hadn't thought about or used in years, ActiveResource. Once it was mentioned, it seemed like it kept cropping up during the conference, from DHH's fireside chat, to convers...| Hashrocket
Generators are one of the many excellent tools that Rails provides. They can be used for a wide range of tasks, from plugging a gem into your app to scaffolding files. You can also build generators to meet your specific needs.| hashrocket.com
I recently got the chance to build a small internal tool for our team. And when it came time to deploy, I really wanted to try out Kamal, the new deployment tool built by Basecamp (37Signals). It was easier than I had first anticipated. Kamal is a CLI and deployment scripting tool that allows you to setup servers and subsequently deploy your app to them. You can use this to deploy many types of applications, you just need a Dockerfile and some changes to Kamal's configuration. It's different ...| hashrocket.com