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RebelHold growing the community
Things are really going great for RebelHold these days. We are now the largest Ruby on Rails development shop in Arizona that is still taking on new projects. It is because of this that we have been...
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Django or Rails?
Today I got into a conversation on Twitter about Rails versus Django. I know that I have blogged about this before but I thought that I should maybe clarify my reasons for preferring one over the...
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What I have learned as a freelance developer
Well, I am almost at one year since I quit corporate America and went freelance. I am not really sure what the definition of a ‘freelance’ developer is and I don’t care what wikipedia says it is. All...
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Issue installing Ruby after upgrading to Mountain Lion
I think that most of us that have upgraded to Mountain Lion have encountered this issue already, but for those that have not, here is what you need to do. Chances are that if you are trying to install...
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Rails CRM
An ongoing pet project of mine has been Rails CRM which is a CRM (Customer Relations Management) built on Rails and using Mongodb for the database. This was also a practice project for my last intern...
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Rails, stuck on the tracks
I have put much thought into this post, now that is not to say that the other posts were created without any thought. I am what I consider to be as a self taught programmer. A couple of years ago I...
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Giving back to the community
I pondered the title of this post for a few minutes today. I almost went with “What have you done for me lately?” but decided not to. The point of this post is giving back to the community that has...
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Testing with Rails Select2
Lately we have been incorporating select2-rails into our applications. I cannot say enough how much I love this tool and its ease of use. That being said, we had had issues with testing and...
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Another year gone by…
Wow, it is so hard to believe that I have been living the life of a freelance Rails developer for the entire year of 2012. What a year it has been. I have learned so much this year and expect to learn...
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Plans for 2013
Well another year has gone by. Time now for all of our plans that we sillily (I guess that is a rela word) call resolutions!! Last year was big for me. First I was made partner with RebelHold, and...
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Why is ruby on rails Ubuntu server setup so damned hard to do?
Well, I was messing with server setup for Ruby on Rails again. I had created a script to walk thru the steps but it still seems to be a combination of try this, get an error, google the error, apply...
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Dealing with Ruby time
I saw this code the other day: - tempDate = “#{my_object_date.to_date}” – displayDate = tempDate[5,2] – displayDate += “/” – displayDate += tempDate[8,2] – displayDate += “/” – displayDate +=...
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