Ryan Cook Ryan enjoys conceptualizing ideal implementations of products and then helping to make them happen. A backend dev, Ryan loves developing custom APIs almost as much as he loves writing tests. Other than that, he can usually be found daydreaming about powder days in the mountains or at a park futzing around with a frisbee, soccer ball, or book.
Since Rails 3 was released, developers have been writing Rails engines in a new clean style that can be packaged as RubyGems. A Rails engine is a prepackaged application that is able to be run or mounted within another Rails application. An engine can have its own models, views, controllers, generators and publicly served static files.
Now, unless you like writing a lot of code, this is... Read More
