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Band Name Generator

Thinking of starting a new band? Your new band can't think of a band name? This might help.

Quite possibly one of the most interesting things I've ever built. I'm using, and in some places reversing, ActiveRecord from the Ruby on Rails web framework to provide generic access to popular open source databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

It's still under heavy development and is only slightly useful at this time. Don't take it too seriously but please do have a look.

Rubyonrails Phone Words

See if your phone number spells anything interesting.

RJS TicTacToe

Curious to test the limitations of RJS Templates, I created a tictactoe game. It's quite easy to beat the computer opponent, but the RJS templates work great.

RJS Templates Howto

I gave a short presentation at work recently describing how to use RJS Templates. The presentation recording (~15 minutes) is also available for download.

Pastebin

I wrote a simple Rails Pastebin app for use with irc.

Book Recommendation:

Agile Web Development with Rails is the defacto-standard for learning the Ruby on Rails web framework. Now in its second edition, this book provides knowledge of the latest and greatest development techniques to aid in advanced web-based application development. It enables developers to create full-featured, sophisticated applications using less code and less effort. This book contains sample applications using database migrations, Ajax, REST interfaces, and illustrates many new Rails features. There are new chapters on active support, active record, and action controller (including the new resources-based routing). The web 2.0 and deployment chapters appear to have been completely rewritten to reflect the latest thinking. You can learn which environments are best for your style application, and see how Capistrano makes managing your site really simple. For learning Ruby on Rails, this book is simply the best available.

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'To pray' is to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.