Manually re-blogged from http://ianlotinsky.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/rails-path-and-url-helpers/
Sometimes I forget the simple differences between Rail’s helpers. This mini post is so I don’t forget.
*_path
Generates relative URLs: /users
Used in views by link_to, form_for, etc. (per DHH)
The browser maps relative URLs to absolute URLs based on the current page’s protocol and host (/users on the page http://domain.com/new translates to http://domain.com/users)
*_url
Generates absolute URLs: http://domain.com/users
Used in controllers by redirect_to (per DHH) because RFC 2616 states that redirects must be absolute URLS. This is true, however, modern browsers can handle relative URL redirects now too
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Do these numbers really matter? Do they improve our lives somehow? Do they improve the lives of our family and friends? Do they make us happy?
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Pretty solid summary of Infographic cliches…
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OR
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“Fuck You. Pay Me.” The rallying cry for anybody who’s done client services in their life.
Millions of people* sit at their desk jobs, bored, dreaming up side businesses they can start while “working” to make a little extra cash. These people aren’t greedy or trying to screw their company over, in fact they’re usually the most clever and hardest working.
This was me a few years…
The history of my life (in bulleted list form):
- Born in the Heartland of ‘merica
- Lived in Queens
- Lived in NJ
- Graduated college
- Worked as a Microsoft developer, first VBScript ASP, then C# .NET
- Freelanced as Ruby on Rails and PHP developer
- Started a service company, Simande
And as of this month:
- Started a product company, Onepager
