Ruby on Rails Tips

By default, Rails uses ID’s in URLs. For example, let’s say we have a list of categories stored in the categories table of the database. The “Super Cool” category is stored with categories#id = 5. To view that category our

Most of your controller methods are public actions that display pages on your website. Your app’s routes will point to these methods and show the corresponding page (view). For example: But hopefully you are keeping things modular and breaking up

When googling to find the answer to a ruby (or rails) coding problem, it struck me that code snippets always use “require” to include any necessary libraries. For example, I recently searched for a way to compare IP addresses using