Thanks to Apple’s annual OS X update I swiftly jumped on the El Capitan bandwagon, little did I know it would mess up a few things for my Rails Dev. First off Bundler vanished and I was receiving a ‘-bash: bundle: command not found’ error. I had to go back and install bundler again using… Read More »
A couple of posts back I created my nav menu by linking to other pages in my site using the link_to method. I then moved the whole chunk of code into a partial and used the render method to show it in the main view. I now want my url structure to look a little neater,… Read More »
Sometimes you just need to repeat the same code across the site and whilst it’s great to have it in the application.html.erb file it can make it look a little messy… that’s where partials come in. A partial is basically a part of your code you want to reuse and here’s how to do it.… Read More »
To create a link to another page in rails you use the ‘link_to’ method and pass in the internal path of the page. I have a view called about.html.er in my static_pages folder in views, so to link to this from another view I would use: <%= link_to (“Text you want to appear”, folder-name_view-name_path) %>… Read More »
There’s a simple way to undo things in Rails using the ‘destroy’ command. Lets say you created some static pages using the following command: $ rails g controller StaticPagges home about help You’ve mis-typed StaticPages so time to get rid. $ rail destroy controller StaticPagges home about help Same for model or view $ rail… Read More »
I have loads of space on the Box platform and wanted to keep my work on there instead of paying for private repositories on github. Yeah bitbucket is free and private as default however there’s a limit to the number you can have. With box.com I have 50Gb of space which should be enough for… Read More »
I’ve been toying with a fair few languages and whilst I can knock up a decent iPhone App I never really focused on web dev. I remember building out my first site and was amazed when my first <div> and <p> took shape. A lot has happened since then and I have a fair few… Read More »