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I wanted to get started with Facebook development, so I made a little badge: Facebook Github Badge In this screencast, I walk through the basics of creating something similar. We … setup a Facebook application get it setup so we can test it (running on our local computer) render HTML...

I’ve been recording my screencast mini-series on Building your own Sinatra clone and I realized … some people out there still haven’t used Sinatra! Hey you! Ruby developer who hasn’t used Sinatra! This is for you :) This should get you up and running with Sinatra, if you haven’t used...

Have you ever wanted to build your own web framework? Do you want to learn howto create Rack applications? The first time I found out about Sinatra, I had already created my own Rack-based web framework and I wasn’t particularly interested in Sinatra. It’s really just a pretty DSL for...

Part 3 in my screencast mini-series on Rack … checkout parts 1 and 2: Part I: Rack Basics Part II: Rackup files, Rack::Request, Rack::Response, and more In Part 3, we cover: What is Rack middleware? How to write your own Rack middleware How to use your Rack middleware from any...