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Creating an ActiveResource compatible controller

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Recently I found myself needing to create a resource-only controller, no HTML, no views, just straight-up XML data. I was planning on using ActiveResource to interact with my resource server. I could find lots of resources on using ActiveResource as a client, but not much in the way of building a proper controller [...]

Rails Resources

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Josh Knowles and I hacked together a teaser page for an idea that Josh, Derek, and I talked about some 6 months ago. We will be working on putting together a great resource to help people keep up with the frantic pace of Ruby on Rails especially as it approaches 2.0. Please visit [...]

Hedging Your Bets

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

A couple of us from Integrum were talking today about community, technology, and programming languages. Someone had mentioned the fact that they didn’t like the fact that we were betting it all on Ruby on Rails. When we started Integrum, we began as a general consulting shop offering lots of services in lots [...]

Silicon Valley Ruby Conf

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

I’m here at the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference.
I am really excited to be here (I don’t get out much) because of the excellent speakers they have managed to sign up. I am also excited to meet and greet some of the greatest minds in the ruby community.
More details to come.

Mountain West Ruby

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Tomorrow night I leave for Mountain West Ruby. I can’t wait to meet some of the southwest’s greatest Ruby and Rails gurus. I’ll try not to be too much of a fanboy.