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Connect a simple Ruby API with Ember using generators from Ember-CLI

We're releasing Caravan, a sample implementation of a version-enforced API server.

<p>August in Madison always brings a buzz of excitement for Madison+ Ruby. In just 10 days we will welcome members of the international Ruby community to our hometown (we’re honored!).</p> <p>Madison+ Ruby has set a high bar for Ruby conferences ever since...</p>

<blockquote> <p>This post is one in a series of blog posts that answer some of the most common questions we get from prospective and current clients. All of the posts in this series are under the <a href="https://bendyworks.com/tag/questions/" title="Questions tag">Questions tag</a> if you want to view more like this.</p> </blockquote> <p>As a consultancy...</p>

One of the defining characteristics of Haskell— that you often see listed in what sets it apart from other languages— is that it is the only common language that’s <em>lazy</em>.

<p>Imagine yourself at a concert on the streets of Madison, a block away from the Wisconsin State Capitol (known for, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Capitol">among</a> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-wisconsin-protests-idUSTRE72B2AN20110312">other</a> <a href="http://www.thedailypage.com/video/article.php?article=40496">things</a>, being the largest granite dome in the world), listening to <a href="http://www.willyporter.com/">Willy Porter</a>, and waiting for the headliner—<a href="http://www.erichutchinson.com/">Eric Hutchinson</a></p>

<p>It has been a while since I last wrote one of these posts and I didn’t want to leave people sitting by their computer desks forever, waiting with bated breath for the next one to pop up in your Google Reader feed (…whispers from the Internet…), okay...</p>

<p>You might as well learn it now, because you’ll be using it in 6 months. <a href="https://github.com/begriffs/styleguide_rails" title="Styleguide Rails">Styleguide rails</a> is a cool gem that builds a living, breathing styleguide for your site. You can add it to your project really easily (let’s just do it right now):</p> <div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight ruby"><code><span class="n">gem</span> <span class="n">install</span></code></pre></div>

<p>Last weekend, three Bendyworkers and a Swink-person (Swink-ee?) participated in the <a href="http://railsrumble.com/">Rails Rumble</a>, a competition to build a web application in just 48 hours. Rather than hacking on the backend like I usually do, I ended up almost exclusively forging...</p>

<p>So, <a href="http://www.madisonruby.org/">there’s this conference in town this week</a>.</p> <p>It’s going to be damned good: attend if you can. One of the most remarkable parts of it is the <strong>RailsBridge Women’s Outreach Workshop</strong> being offered on Wednesday evening and during the day on Thursday....</p>

<p><strong>Note:</strong> This article was cross-posted from Brad’s personal blog: <a href="http://www.namingthingsishard.com/2012/01/31/concisekit.html">Naming Things is Hard</a></p> <p>Over the last month at Bendyworks, I’ve been pairing with <a href="http://twitter.com/JaymesWaters">Jaymes</a> on our latest initiative: adding iOS development to our repertoire. As a Ruby developer learning...</p>