Blogs from the Ranch Full-Stack Web

Coding Rails with Data Integrity, Part 2

Last time, we discussed how database null constraints and default values can increase confidence in your app’s data.

Coding Rails with Data Integrity, Part 1

Ruby and Rails gives us tools to quickly create powerful web applications. With little effort we are able to model our domain objects and...

Expertise, community and fun: Why you should take a Big Nerd Ranch class

Editor’s note: Terry Kavanagh is a two-time Big Nerd Ranch bootcamp alum who has attended classes at our Atlanta-area Ranch and Big Nerd Ranch...

Inspiration and New Friends at RubyConf India

In my professional career, I’ve never felt prouder than when I was accepted as a speaker at RubyConf India. I’ve spoken at numerous user...

Rails Girls ATL: Building ideas

Last weekend, we hosted our second Rails Girls workshop, inviting 50 women to come to our office to learn more about web development through...

Railsberry: A Different Kind of Conference

Big Nerd Ranch recently sent Brian Gardner and me to the Railsberry Conference in Krakow, Poland. Having been to several Rails conferences already, I...

SEO and Rails Apps

Ancient City Ruby 2013

Jay Hayes recaps his experience at Ancient City Ruby 2013.

Community and Python

It was a pretty big adventure for me to attend PyCon, flying across the country to a conference I’d never attended before so I...

How to Improve Rails Application Performance on Heroku

There are many options for Ruby on Rails hosting, but Heroku is one that we recommend to clients and use internally for Ruby on...

Creating View-Centric Interfaces with the Decorator Pattern

Occasionally in the life-cycle of an application we find that we need two distinct domain objects to quack alike, even if their underlying structures differ greatly....

HTML5 is feature complete. What's next?

Until just a few days ago, the term “HTML5” referred only to a draft specification. Now that the HTML5 and Canvas 2D specifications have...