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Thanks to Abdullah Al Muheiri (aka serdal), I will have the chance to give a talk case studying restate.ae today at the Emirates Internet Group.
I know it’s a bit late to announce the talk, but my fault was in not announcing it unless restate.ae new design is up; well, the new design implementation took longer [...]

I’ve been using Haml in every project I’ve been working on in the last couple of months. I really encourage every Rails developer to start using it because it really makes your life easier and keep you away from the ugly erb code.
Of course if you are using Textmate, you will immediatly ask for a [...]

Few days ago Cloves Carneiro Jr. my partner and co-founder in SpinBits got his first book out, . It’s a Rails book, published by Apress and co-authored with Jeffrey Allan Hardy, the man behind Quoted Printable, and Hampton Catlin the one behind HAML the famous templating engine for Rails..
If you follow Ruby and Rails blogs [...]

It is always exciting to see more of Ruby and Rails here in the Middle East and specifically in Dubai, UAE. Since our first (and only) RailsUAE meetup six months ago we didn’t have much activities, but now with the Google Group and its active members, we start having more discussions and what’s more important [...]

Today June 17th, we at SpinBits are proud to announce the launch of restate.ae, the web application that expresses our vision in creating quality web application for the region.

restate.ae is a real estate portal for the city Dubai, but it’s not just another portal out there, it’s built from our need to be able to [...]

Here is a quick scenario.. You have over 200 tests and 800 assertions for your Rails application and you always run them before every subversion commit, but because you love tests so much or maybe you’re doing some TDD you want these tests to be running all the time.
You need ZenTest and its [...]

While checking my web statistics today I noticed that the top search keyphrase I’m getting traffic from is “Mind Puzzles”, so maybe it’s time for a new one today.
The 12 steel balls puzzle is known as a logic test, a simple puzzle that doesn’t require any extraordinary math knowledge, but instead it tests the mind [...]

What a wonderful thing to see how Ruby is getting better attention nowadays, a programming language that was known only in Japan and created by only one man is now known globally, not only in USA and Europe but also in south Asia, India and here in the Middle East too.
“PuneRuby is a non-profit organization [...]

Here comes the second part of our story, last time in part one we met rails directory structure, designed a three tables database, created it in MySQL and linked it to our application then we let rails db schema create those tables for us and finally we generated a modest scaffold for our Books table.
If [...]

So here is the first part of the previously announced Rails Project Story, in this part we are going to understand the Rails directory structure, design a very basic database to start with, link it to our rails application, setup the rails database schema for it and finally try the famous scaffolding feature that everybody [...]