Article originally published in the Neo blog. A while ago, Adam McCrea from the Neo Columbus office shared ghpreview. It’s a tool to preview a Markdown file locally with Github styling. It also has the option to refresh everytime you save your source Markdown file. The most common use is your project’s README file before pushing it to Github. It also accepts any Markdown file. Even though there are many other tools to preview this kind of file, none of them use Github Flavored Markdown. ghpreview is an accurate preview because it uses Github’s own HTML processing filters to generate […]

Article originally published in the Neo blog. We have many tools from which to choose when we’re facing a new web project. With applications tending to use a modular architecture on the web, and developing towards APIs, we’re building code that’s better to reuse and easier to test. Rails is the most popular framework in Ruby when building web applications. Also, it’s an entrance technology for most new Rubyists due to its popularity. It’s a full-stack framework, opinionated and a great tool for specific uses. It tells you from the start it’s opinionated, it was built for convention over configuration, […]