[Rails] [JOBS Feedback Needed] Looking for Ruby on Rails newcomers who used to program in other languages

Hi Folks, I've been coding 7 years in C# Asp .Net/T-sql and recently transition to RoR 8 months ago. It feels hard to break into the industry without sufficient real-world work experience even though I've coded a site pre-seed funded by an accelerator in Sydney and built an iPhone app in

[Rails] Phonegap + Rails to render the views. How does Facebook Connect work then?

Hi everyone, I'm learning Phonegap and stumbled upon this solution which demonstrated that views can be dynamically rendered through Rails hosted on Heroku: - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11713997/using-phonegap-as-a-native-container-for-a-rails-3-app It seems to be a good solution, but

Re: [Rails] Retrieve duration (in string format) from database and convert to Ruby syntax for calculation

Thanks for your help everyone. I ended up using Chronic Duration gem. https://github.com/hpoydar/chronic_duration On Sunday, September 22, 2013 3:58:58 PM UTC+8, Colin Law wrote: On 20 September 2013 08:30, Fai Wong wong...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: If I store 1.month as a string

[Rails] What is the best way to convert a currency string 'USD' to locale :en-US?

What is the best way to convert a currency string 'USD' to locale :en-US? Right now trying to make it flexible to show the money and symbol correctly based on the currency string (like 'USD' or 'AUD') stored against the user's record. I need to be able to do the following based on say 'GBP'

[Rails] Retrieve duration (in string format) from database and convert to Ruby syntax for calculation

If I store 1.month as a string in the database, how do I convert 1.month into 1.month? This way I can use the 1.month value stored in database to perform the following calculation. Time.now + 1.month -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Ruby on

[Rails] How to save values from Sortable Unordered List?

I've a sortable unordered list as follows. How do I use controller to detect this element and get the contents to save each LI item into a row in the database? ul id=show-items class=ui-sortable li id=todo-163span class=editable1. Good/span a href=# style=display: none;X/a/li li

[Rails] Re: Learning Rails - Advice for development environment

Dropbox comes in handy too, this way you can do development anywhere. I haven't tried the Windows tools for RoR and prefer Mac style when it comes to RoR. On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:39:31 AM UTC+11, Fai Wong wrote: Hi Michael, I'm an ASP .Net dev guy for close to 7 years now and have

[Rails] Re: Learning Rails - Advice for development environment

Hi Michael, I'm an ASP .Net dev guy for close to 7 years now and have always used PC. Last year I bought a Macbook on Gumtree and have recently found a lot of joy in programming Ruby on Rails using Terminal. I run VMware Fusion with Windows OS for my .Net dev but found myself doing less of

[Rails] The year is 2013. How is Rails VS. ASP .Net MVC 4 faring?

Hi, I'm not trolling here! I've been a .Net Web forms developer for 6 years now. Looking to build startups and considering RoR or ASP .Net MVC 4. I Googled and found most articles which compares the two date back to 2010. I suspect that NuGet have gone quite far by now but am not sure if it