I wrote this article because I needed to add a print and email function for a blog theme I was designing. Attempting to circumvent recreating the wheel, I looked around and didn’t find any proper solutions: I needed the code to be smart so I could have a certain element generate a print or email version of a page, while stripping the rest of the page. I ended up using jQuery to do this. Here is an excerpt from the tutorial:

“When designing websites, a commonly desired feature is the ability to dynamically print or email any section of a webpage. Unfortunately, this idea is usually scrapped later in the project due to a lack of time or knowledge. Formatting the text for printing is more difficult than it might initially seem. Today, we will use JavaScript to automatically search for certain page elements and format them correctly for a printing.”

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I began this series for Jeffrey due to a lack of tutorials about Rails on nettuts+. On the four-part journey, it helped many people start the adventure of learning Ruby on Rails. It assumed the reader knew nothing about Rails or programming in general. It received a lot of positive comments and a lot of people were disappointed when I stopped writing them. Who knows-maybe some day the series will continue.

Learn Ruby on Rails from Scratch: Week 1

“Ruby on Rails. . .by now most people have heard the hype about it. It promises more effective code, total object orientation, and true MVC architecture to say the least. As far as my own personal experience, it has been all that and more. The code is beautiful, easy to maintain, and edit. In a recent project I was working on, it took me less than 10 hours to do the application, as compared to at least double that if I was writing in PHP. “

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Learn Ruby on Rails from Scratch: Week 2

“Welcome to Ruby on Rails From Scratch Week 2. Hopefully this sequel to week 1 will help to further your education in Rails. This week, we’ll do a little bit more with getting an actual page up and running. We’ll also work on adding more interactivity by embedding ruby in HTML and learning a little about variables. After that, we’ll learn more about Ruby’s beautiful URL structure and how to manipulate it, plus other things as well. This is definitely going to be a packed week! “

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Learn Ruby on Rails from Scratch: Week 3

“Welcome to Ruby on Rails From Scratch Week 3! This week, we’ll focus on specific things that you need to know about the framework. For example, we’re going to talk about manipulating the structure of the project in two ways (rendering & redirecting). We’ll also talk about how you add links in rails, and how to comment code. Let’s get started already!”

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Learn Ruby on Rails from Scratch: Week 4

“Welcome to Ruby on Rails From Scratch Week 4! This week we’re going to talk about ruby syntax. After this tutorial, I believe that you’ll have a much better understanding of the framework and feel much more comfortable doing things by yourself. Oh yeah, and there’s a surprise this week – a screencast! So without further ado, here is week 4!”

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