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Jason Seifer is a web developer, podcaster, world traveler, astronaut, and more. He also teaches at Treehouse. You can find him on Twitter @jseifer.
April 11, 2013 in Learn
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…
November 23, 2012 in Learn
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…
November 7, 2012 in Learn
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…
October 17, 2012 in Learn
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…
October 4, 2012 in Learn
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…
August 24, 2012 in Learn
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…