Emacs vs Vim. iPhone vs Android. Of all of the nerd arguments, none hits closer to home for Ruby developers than HAML vs ERB. Proponents of HAML look at writing HTML as a dirty practice to be avoided at all costs and look down upon “mere” ERB authors. Meanwhile there’s...

This post is part of a series called Open Source Citizenry in which I discuss ways to eliminate the barriers that developers and companies face to participating in the open source community.

This post is part of a series called Open Source Citizenry discussing ways to eliminate barriers developers and companies face to participating in the open source community.

There are several cases in which it might make sense to tailor your app’s content based on a user’s physical location. But asking them directly is a bit of a pain. Luckily, it’s extremely simple to find a user’s location knowing only something you will always know about a visitor:...

TL;DR: I’ve rewritten RailsWizard from the ground up to be as fast and useful to developers as possible. You can now also run it through the command line with the RailsWizard Gem.