Ruby on Rails Developer - Bryce McDonnell

Technologically Entrepreneurial

I'm currently a ruby on rails developer / technology director at a fast growing start up in Portland, Oregon

I've been involved with many other seed stage companies helping to build a vision into a reality

I'll share thoughts on engineering ruby on rails applications, systems admin, online marketing and general entrepreneurship

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Ruby Relationships Without The Database

Sometimes you don't need a database to persist data. If the dataset is small, and the model simple, a YAML file or static method will do.

Fat Free CRM Lead Form

I've been developing on Fat Free CRM for some time. To help out adoption of the platform, and my own business, I've written a plugin for wordpress to get leads into the CRM

Custom Routes With Shoulda

In this post, I describe how to test that routes are resolving to the correct URL

Samba Server Integration

While on a trip to Beirut, I did some work setting up a file server

Recommended Books

I feel this is the authoritative source for learning rails quickly. I began my journey on the 1.0 version of this book creating the "depot" application.

RecommendedBooks

This book helped me learn the internals of Git quick. Now, I'm convinced Git is the best version control software ever made.

RecommendedBooks

Another Git book but written from a day to day user interaction experience.

RecommendedBooks

One of the most fun books I've ever read on programming. If you're not using ruby's meta programming features, you're not really using ruby

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contact: bryce [at] bridgetownint [dot] com - 503.914.0202