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Node.js is tiny and wasn’t really meant to build websites, which is why frameworks like Express.js are useful. Express gives Node structure so you can build a functional website. Along with a templating engine such as Handlebars.js, Node can be used to build fully functional web applications.
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Devise is a powerful authentication system for Rails applications. This tutorial walks you through setting up devise, as well as setting up your user MVC. Follow along with the code sample on GitHub.
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Templates are useful when building web applications by allowing you to easily display repeating data. Handlebars.js is a templating engine that allows you to take repeating data and display it in an organized fashion.
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Step by step Backbone.js tutorial to help you get started with Backbone, a lightweight JavaScript framework designed to give structure to web applications. (Featured in JavaScript Weekly.)
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Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby, also known as an MVC, or Model View Controller. Rails has two major philosophies: (1) DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) and (2) Convention Over Configuration, meaning Rails has a right and wrong way of doing things, and if you follow the Rails way, you shouldn’t have to… Read More
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RSpec is a behavior-driven testing tool for the Ruby language. RSpec is used in test driven development (“TDD”), where the developer writes the test based on what s/he hopes the program will accomplish, and then creates the program to accomplish the goals of the test. While this would seem to create additional work for the… Read More