How I TRAINed to learn Rails

A Guide to Learning Rails in 2 months

Although I learned a few programming languages in the past, I had absolutely no experience with them except for Visual Basic, which is barely considered a language. I learned rails the hard…

How to land your first Ruby on Rails Job

The classic chicken-egg problem

How I (*Finally) Learned Ruby on Rails

(…and you can, too.)

Why Googling is the most important skill a developer *must* have.

1 out of 100 Tips to master Ruby on…

UI Components in Rails

The journey towards an object-oriented approach.

In the process of developing my CRUD application, I eventually decided that I needed to DRY up my code and build a set of reusable UI components. Those would be things like toolbars…

How to approach a Ruby on Rails Developer

9 tips on how recruiters can get a developer attention

No, we do not hate you recruiters; it flatters us to know that people want our skills. We would just like to be approached in certain ways…

Why I chose Ruby over PHP  

after developing in PHP for more than a decade.

UPDATE: This days I am drifting away from DCI towards ServiceObjects/CQRS. This post is left here for historical purpose only (while proposed implementation is not recommended, motivation is still correct from my standpoint).

Better Rails apps. Step 1: no Fat Models.

Programando problemas

Cómo aprendí a dejar de preocuparme y amar los problemas

Anybody can build a Rails App

Yes, even you.