Intermediate Rails: Understanding Models, Views and Controllers
I’m glad people liked the introduction to Rails; now you scallawags get to avoid my headaches with the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern. This isn’t quite an intro to MVC, it’s a list of gotchas as you plod through MVC the first few times.
Here’s the big picture as I understand it:

- The browser makes a …
Starting Ruby on Rails: What I Wish I Knew
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Math & Numbers
- Mental math shortcuts, adding 1-100
- Understanding exponents and the natural log
- Div, Curl, Flux, Gradient and other Vector Calculus topics
Programming & Web Development
- Site speedups with HTTP caching, gzip compression
- Understanding Rails, Web debugging, and Javascrtipt
- Swap bytes with XOR, byte order, unicode
