August 7, 2022 in Career Advice
Front-End vs. Back-End: The Complete Guide
When you first decide to begin your coding journey — and maybe even pursue a career in web development — it can be difficult to understand industry terms like front-end, back-end, and full-stack. What are these different web development roles?…
November 1, 2017 in Learn
Active Record Without a Rails App
When you want to work with Ruby on Rails models, even if you’re just playing around, you have to go through a few steps: Create an app directory Create a database Generate model classes Run migrations But sometimes you need…
September 13, 2016 in Treehouse News
Get to Know Treehouse Ruby Teacher, Jay McGavren!
We recently welcomed Jay McGavren to the Treehouse teaching team as our new expert Ruby teacher. For those of you new to Ruby, it is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. Jay has…
August 16, 2016 in Learn
How to Install Rails 5 on Linux
In setting up for the Treehouse Rails 5 Basics course, we’re also updating our installation help workshops to cover Rails 5. We figured we’d share those directions here, as a little nudge to those of you who still haven’t discovered…
August 10, 2016 in Learn
How to Install Rails 5 on a Mac
In setting up for the Treehouse Rails 5 Basics course, we’re also updating our installation help workshops to cover Rails 5. We figured we’d share those directions here, as a little nudge to those of you who still haven’t discovered…
August 2, 2016 in Learn
How to Install Rails 5 on Windows
While setting up for the Treehouse Rails 5 Basics course, we’re also updating our installation help workshops to cover Rails 5. We figured we’d share those directions here, as a little nudge for those of you who still haven’t discovered…
July 6, 2015 in Learn
How to Create Static Pages in Rails
Have you ever wanted to create static pages in Rails? These are pages that don’t necessarily contain any dynamic info or pull from the database and don’t require an entire controller. While some pre-built gems allow this to be done…
July 6, 2015 in Learn
An Introduction to the Rails Command
If you’ve worked with a Rails application, you’ve used the rails command. In this post, we’re going to go in depth with the rails command and find out what it does. For the purposes of this post, placeholder text will…
October 20, 2014 in Career Advice
What Employers Are Looking For in a Junior Rails Developer
Part of my job as the Ruby teacher for Treehouse is to stay on top of what employers are looking for when hiring people to fill Ruby and Rails positions. The landscape changes often but below are some of the trends…
September 12, 2014 in Learn
Work On An Existing Rails App
Throughout the course of your Rails career, you’re bound to have to work on an existing Rails application. If you’re doing consulting, this can be a process you have to go through time and time again in order to get…
January 29, 2014 in Learn
A Tale of Front-end Sanity: Beware the Sass @import
Imagine coming into work on your first day as a front-end designer or dev and getting your Rails development system up and running for the first time. You’re really excited to start working on something in the app or website…
June 6, 2013 in Learn
Using Select2 with Ruby on Rails – Treehouse Quick Tip
In this Treehouse Quick-Tip, Jason Seifer shows you how to use the Select2 Plugin with Ruby on Rails. Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.