Today, just a quick message outlining the future of Rails Coach.

CoffeeScript is a language written by Jeremy Ashkenas that compiles to Javascript. Its syntax is much more friendly than native JavaScript. Especially...

A generator is a way of creating code from the command line. Rails has several of these built in, including generators for models, controllers, tests,...

NoSQL is a terrible term for a collection of widely varied databases. You have key-value stores like Redis, Tokyo Cabinet, Memcached, etc. You also ha...

I've been using Backbone.js for a few weeks and really like the way it helps you manage your data on the client side. It's also a terrific way to keep...

One of the most handy websites out there for people trying to find specific API's in Ruby is ruby-doc.org. From the main page, you can search or selec...

I've been using VIM for a while to do my development. It's a terrific text editor that has been around for quite some time. Here's the rundown of what...

A counter cache is a handy way to speed up queries where you only need the number of an associated model rather than the entire collection. In your co...

Eager loading is a terrific way of speeding up your response times. Let's consider a piece of code that pulls a list of associated objects from the da...

Assets in Rails before version 3.1 were kept in the /public folder. In Rails 3.1 they've been moved to /app/assets and function in a slightly differen...