What are the best options for quickly developing web applications? I'm looking for something as fast as possible to set up and get running, instead of getting bogged down in setup and configuration details.
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posted by meowzilla
on Apr 18, 2013 -
11 answers
I'm interested in using a Ruby CMS as a substitute for the usual Wordpress or Drupal. Although I know my way around Rails, I am not sure whether there might be a good off-the-shelf way to make the control panel as easy to use for regular folks who are not programmers.
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posted by steinsaltz
on Jan 18, 2013 -
3 answers
Sometimes, I am a front-end web developer. Frequently, I meet new people at work who want to turn really complicated Excel documents into dazzlingly interactive web applications.
Besides
Excel's "Save to Web App" or "Save to SharePoint" features, such people ask if I can tap into an industry to support this -- perhaps scads of agencies and web-based or downloadable tools that make "websites" or at least customizable, interactive reports from Excel spreadsheets, data, and calculations.
I'm yet to find this an abundance of examples of this. Are there? If so, what do you call them?
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posted by metajc
on Jan 9, 2013 -
2 answers
In this game, you roll a number of six-sided dice to get a
total. The total is either the highest single die result, or the sum of any multiples rolled, whichever is higher.
For example: If I roll three dice and get a 3, 4, and 6, my total is 6. But if I roll a 4, 4, and 6, my total is 8, the sum of the two 4s.
What I want to find out is the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of the possible totals given N dice. How might I create a simple script to compute this?
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posted by j0hnpaul
on Nov 30, 2012 -
24 answers
If feasible, how do you move the database backend of a Web application built with Rails 3.2 from PostgreSQL to Salesforce (or Database.com)?
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posted by remi
on Jul 19, 2012 -
0 answers
What IT/programming/technology type conferences should I try to go to this year (June 2012 - June 2013)? I have to come up with a list of 3 by Thursday for my manager!
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posted by The Supreme Dominar
on Apr 10, 2012 -
5 answers
I'm working on learning Ruby on Rails right now, and I'm starting to feel like I'm in way over my head. For those who have been there, what resources helped you find your footing?
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posted by ella wren
on Jan 21, 2012 -
14 answers
I've been tasked with moving a Ruby on Rails website from our ubuntu server that is being retired to a Windows 2008 server running IIS 7.5. Easy right?
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posted by cirrostratus
on Aug 10, 2011 -
9 answers
How does Ruby compare to C#/Java in terms of speed of development, quality of code and long-term maintainability? A broad question, I know, but my focus is on enterprise applications that might pull in from several large data sources and might be rather large.
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posted by geoff.
on Jul 30, 2011 -
15 answers
What kind of Web programmer/coder do I need for this project? Where do I find such a person?
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posted by Shepherd
on May 5, 2011 -
15 answers
I've been doing LAMP web development for about ten years. I'd like to learn a new language to diversify my skills. What language should I choose?
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posted by ixohoxi
on Jan 7, 2011 -
32 answers
At year's end, I'm transitioning to a new web dev department that uses RoR extensively. Problem is, I've been a PHP/mySQL guy my whole working life. Help me bone up on my RoR, stat!
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posted by (bb|[^b]{2})
on Sep 20, 2010 -
9 answers
Are you a web developer who works with Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Apache, Linux, jQuery and so forth? What (professional) blogs and news sites do you read?
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posted by fogster
on Jul 29, 2010 -
8 answers
I want to set up Ruby on Rails development environment on my windows laptop at work, and plan to set up Virtual Box and install some version of linux, probably ubuntu, as a guest OS. I use windows mostly for work and OS X at home, but havent done much with linux (my office's production environment is linux, so I do a tiny bit).
Which version of ubuntu should I go with right now? I see "Lucid Lynx" has just been released (I love the naming), should I go with that or a previous recent version?
posted by pretzel
on Apr 29, 2010 -
9 answers
I want to create a simple but dynamic Bible-reading web app from the ground up. I have very little web design and development experience. Where do I begin?
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posted by joshrholloway
on Apr 22, 2010 -
4 answers
I'm teaching myself to program. I learned the basics with Ruby on Rails, and I'm now coding in Python and Javascript, but I want to try an Android app, and that requires that I use Java. Going from Ruby to Python to Javascript was relatively painless, but I feel like I'm starting all over looking at Java code. Does anyone have any tips for going from scripted languages to Java? Or any really great tutorials for getting started in Java? Or any great tutorials for beginning programmers for Android?
posted by empath
on Jan 25, 2010 -
13 answers
Does anyone know the typeface/font used in the Ruby and Ruby on Rails logos?
posted by MediaJunkie
on Aug 24, 2009 -
6 answers
I'm a journalist with not much database programming experience. However I have been fascinated by the government and other agencies making their data available for developers to play with, and I think a newspaper could do wonders with this data. How do I get in on the fun?
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posted by Blandanomics
on Jul 8, 2009 -
9 answers
In Ruby, how can you get around the ~65,500 character limit when grabbing a web page?
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posted by FuManchu
on Mar 9, 2009 -
7 answers
I have many wav files that I need to modify in the same way. Specifically, I want to fade in from zero dB for the first 5 ms and fade out to zero db for the last 5 ms.
What do I use?
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posted by pealco
on Feb 25, 2009 -
7 answers
Anybody know why I'd be having problems with Hackety Hack (the ruby tutorial)? Downloading works fine, but the forums and the shared programs are gone.
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posted by forforf
on Feb 8, 2009 -
6 answers
Foreword: No ruby background aside from basic tutorials.
Here's the deal. I've tired the Agile Web Dev (2nd edition) book for rails, very out of date. I need to learn something. I want to learn ruby on Rails. I've gone through the Rails guide on creating a rails blog (
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started_with_rails.html).
So, rather then buy it now (3rd edition of book as beta) or just wait, I want to get on the fast track to learn rails 2.2 (soon to be release 2.3) .
Basically I'm looking for a online resource super cheap or free that provides quality information relating to rails and ruby.
Help and suggestions welcome
posted by BoldStepDesign
on Feb 3, 2009 -
6 answers
I'm trying to learn Ruby. I know more than a little bit about VB Script, and have written some scripts to automate some windows tasks, mostly by editing existing scripts, things like pinging workstations, WMI connections looking for files and such. I've read http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram and worked through the tutorials and think I understand them. Now what....
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posted by TuxHeDoh
on Dec 5, 2008 -
7 answers
Is there a free library that will decode/read a barcode from an image?
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posted by Maia
on Dec 3, 2008 -
5 answers
Rails on Ubuntu.
I've followed this tutorial: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnUbuntu
Now how to do I access ror from my browser? Where do I put files for dev? Help please!!
posted by BoldStepDesign
on Oct 31, 2008 -
4 answers
I upgraded ruby on OS 10.5.4 from 1.8.6 to 1.8.7 and rubygems stopped working. How do I get rubygems to see where I've installed ruby?
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posted by Inigo Jones
on Aug 21, 2008 -
3 answers
Graph Visualization Filter: I need to generate a list of coordinates for the nodes in a large directed, weighted graph from Ruby, given a list of nodes, edges and weights.
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posted by Alterscape
on Aug 4, 2008 -
3 answers
Is there a resource that lists all the different email programs' handling of forward/reply formatting? I want to write a program that receives emails, but I know some email apps add ">" characters and newlines that I'll have to strip out- I don't want to miss too many edge cases.
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posted by squishy
on Jun 11, 2008 -
2 answers
I am trying to decide which web language + framework to focus on for learning this summer. I am stuck between PHP, Python (with Django maybe) or Ruby (on Rails).
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posted by the_dude
on May 29, 2008 -
35 answers
If my favourite reference on C++ is
The C++ Programming Language by Stroustrup, what would be my favourite book on Ruby. (And my favourite book on Python.)
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posted by chunking express
on May 21, 2008 -
17 answers
How do I learn new programming languages and start using modern web apps without getting frustrated and angry?
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posted by Zarkonnen
on May 14, 2008 -
33 answers
How can I do a Rails
find JOIN without SQL, using the two tables' existing
has_and_belongs_to_many relationships?
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posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Apr 18, 2008 -
5 answers
I'm trying to compile and run a Java class from Ruby, but I'm having some problems. I'm not very experienced with Ruby- please help me figure out what I'm doing wrong.
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posted by version control
on Mar 24, 2008 -
7 answers
In my quest to learn Ruby, I'm struggling to find everyday usable code examples that i can relate to. Might you suggest some ?
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posted by jmnugent
on Mar 1, 2008 -
28 answers
I'm interested in attempting some work with Ruby on Rails. Other than some very elementary BASIC programming and HTML (yes, I know it's not a programming language), I have no programming experience.
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posted by joshrholloway
on Dec 29, 2007 -
6 answers
I'm a coder, with skills in python, ruby, rails, java, etc. I've recently started getting offers for (and accepting) short-term contract work in addition to my longer-term dayjob contract. However, I'm unsure what the going rate is for the work I do - how much should I charge on a per-hourly basis? How does this vary with respect to the length of the contract (eg, a day, a week, a month, six months)?
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posted by ysabet
on Nov 30, 2007 -
5 answers
