http://www.dbnetworx.de working with Rails 2.0, Ruby on Rails, Flex, Flash and ... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:58:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few days ago Adobe released their Beta Version of the new Flexbuilder 4. But they renamed FlexBuilder to Flashbuilder to better fit to Flash and the brand new Flash Catalyst Software. You can find more information on the Adobe Website: Flashbuilder 4 Beta http://www.dbnetworx.de/2009/06/10/flexbuilder-is-now-flashbuilder-4/ Searching the Web and Amazon I didn'd really find a useful website helping me to learn RSpec in an easy way. The RSpec website is a good starting point. There are already a bunch of examples, but for me it was sometimes hard to follow, especially the mock section. I recently ... http://www.dbnetworx.de/2009/01/03/rspec-screencasts-and-tutorials-for-rails/ Some time ago, I stumbled over a nice gem called Prawn. Prawn is written in Ruby and makes it easy to generate PDF documents. On top of it you can easily integrate prawn in Ruby on Rails. Instead of rendering a html page you just render a PDF document for ... http://www.dbnetworx.de/2008/11/14/generating-pdfs-with-prawn/ Some useful Tips for Beginners and a bit more advanced Rails Developers. A Simple Referer, How to redirect a User to the page he wanted to go, after he has successfully logged in. Adding a Role Filter to your Views, to secure pages/navigational elements only an Administrator/Developer etc. should be allowed to ... http://www.dbnetworx.de/2008/04/22/5-rails-tips-plus-links/ Like it is offered for Version 2 of the Flexbuilder, Flexbuilder 3 now is also available for free for every Student authenticating that they study at a University  around the world. You just have to upload your identification at adobe.com approxiamtely one or two days after that you will get ... http://www.dbnetworx.de/2008/03/20/free-flexbuilder-3-professional-for-students/ I found a nice offer by Adobe recently, when I was searching their web page. If you are a student you are allowed to download an use FlexBuilder 2 and Flex Charting 2 for free! All you have to do is follow the link: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/edu/index.html Register yourself at adobe.com, upload your identification, ... http://www.dbnetworx.de/2008/02/22/free-flexbuilder-2-and-flex-charting-2-for-students/ Is just got Mongrel working with Rails 2.0.2 and RubyGems 1.0.1 on Windows. What I did was to delete all prior Versions of Mongrel except Version 1.1.3 You can use the command gem uninstall mongrel ( Select the Versions prior to 1.1.3 and delete them, then 1.1.3 will be used by default) http://www.dbnetworx.de/2008/01/02/mongrel-rubygems-rails-202-boot-problem/ Well I still haven't got everything right, but I'm getting very close to it. So far I managed to run Capsitrano2 over my application, export the whole code to a SuSE 10.2 vmware Image, launch a Mongrel Cluster and test it. Next steps will be to configure Apache2 an then ... http://www.dbnetworx.de/2007/08/26/finding-my-way-to-ruby-on-rails-deploy-with-capistrano2-mongrel-cluster-and-apache2/ I just posted my small Rails tutorial in combination with Netbeans 6 in the Community Docs section of wiki.netbeans.org You can find it here http://www.dbnetworx.de/2007/07/26/a-short-tutorial-about-ruby-on-rails-and-netbeans-6/ I just made a very small tutorial with Ruby on Rails. I only wanted to compare JSF with Facelets and JPA to Ruby on Rails. You can find these tutorials in the Page navigation on the right side of the page or here: Running with Facelets Running on Rails http://www.dbnetworx.de/2007/07/06/running-on-rails-or-how-to-build-a-small-running-application-with-ruby-on-rails/