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by Huw Collingbourne.
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I've been working busily away for the last few months, hiding under my rock, and constructing the next iteration of Ruby In Steel: the Visual Rails Workbench. The terms ‘visual' and ‘Rails' don't normally go well together – a bit like oil and water. A Rails ‘view' is essentially a set of highly non-visual ‘directives' that spit out HTML when needed. Normally, what I (and most people I know) mean by ‘visual' is (...)