Jason Seifer is a web developer, podcaster, beer geek, world traveler, astronaut, and trainer of Chuck Norris. He enjoys long walks on the beach, poetry, and a good scotch. He also teaches at Treehouse.
In this Treehouse Quick-Tip, Jason Seifer shows you how to use the Select2 Plugin with Ruby on Rails. Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.
In this Treehouse Quick Tip, Jason demystifies the concepts behind what a has many :through association is in Ruby on Rails. We’ll figure out what a join table is, how different models fit together, and the syntax needed to make …Continue reading
The “each” method in Ruby on Rails allows you to iterate over different objects inside an array-like structure. It’s an important part of development in Ruby, and Treehouse’s Ruby teacher, Jason, explains how to use it effectively in this Treehouse …Continue reading
Logging is extremely useful. URL, paramaters, database calls, and other useful information. There are 5 levels of logging in Ruby on Rails: Debug, Info, Warn, Error, and Fatal. In production, all logging is set to “Info” level by default. All …Continue reading
The Rails core team recently introduced a project called strong parameters. Strong parameters is the latest tool in the fight against mass assignment vulnerabilities. Let’s take the problem of your typical web form that creates a user. Your code might …Continue reading
What is Ruby on Rails? Ruby on Rails is a web development framework that makes it easy to write web applications. Rails was extracted from an application called Basecamp. When you start writing a Ruby on Rails application, it’s like …Continue reading
What Is It? Turbolinks is a brand new piece of JavaScript that is going to be integrated as part of Rails 4. It is similar to pjax. When enabled on a site, Turbolinks will fetch a part of a page …Continue reading
In HTML5 it is not strictly necessary to close certain HTML tags. The tags that aren’t required to have specific closing tags are called “self closing” tags. What is a self closing tag? An example of a self closing tag …Continue reading
To understand the concepts related to starting a business, we will use our online t-shirt store, Shirts 4 Mike, as an example. This includes the basics of marketing, finance, accounting, and the legal aspects of creating a company.
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