Struggling With Ruby

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• Struggling With Ruby: The Controller Part 4 - Functional Testing

  Functional testing targets individual methods in your controllers. It tests the user is redirected, gets the right HTTP response and so on, ...

• Struggling With Ruby: The View Part 1 - ERB and Links

  Rails uses the Model-View-Controller architecture. I have already discussed the model ( here ) and the controller ( here ); today it is the ...

• Struggling With Ruby: Dynamic Images on Rails

  You can serve images through a dedicated method (or action) in your controller, but to use the format facility, you need to register the MIM...

• Struggling With Ruby: Operator Overloading

  Ruby permits operator overloading, allowing you to define how operators will work with your own (or indeed any) classes. Here is a quick exa...

• Struggling With Ruby: The View Part 3 - Using Forms

  The basic component of a form for a view on Rails is the form_for method in ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper . This takes an object as an ar...

• Struggling With Ruby: JRuby and Java

  If you are using JRuby you can access Java functionality in your Ruby code pretty easily. Two possible reasons to do this are to create an i...