Food for thought

I spent last evening coding a new web app in RoR 2.0 till 2 a.m. This is fantastic how smooth and enjoyable the experience is. Although I had previously coded a few other apps in RoR and I loved it too, this time it was even better.

I feel it’s mainly because I found a ton of great tutorials and documentation I didn’t have previously. And although I own the 2nd edition of the Rails book it doesn’t cover the RESTful features deeply enough and this is the killer feature in 2.0.

Here’re some URLs that I think are worth sharing:

• Railscasts - a fantastic collection of free RoR screencasts by Ryan Bates
• attachment_fu plugin by Rick Olson and a great tutorial by Mike Clark
• acts_as_commentable plugin
• role_requirement and restful_authentication plugins

Hope it’s useful!