COLOBackcountry architecture

This post refers back to my COLOBackcountry project. The project takes advantage of the standard Rails MVC pattern to serve up some of the content, and relies on an internal API for the rest. The app basically has a few static pages (main/index, about, etc.) and show pages for the individual ski routes. The pages are rendered in the normal way and the map data are pulled in from a GeoJSON API. This gives the app a very modular
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Wiring up CRUD Actions Between Ember and Rails

This is not fully fleshed-out, but we're using it. There are some tutorials out there to help you get started with pairing the excellent Ember front end javascript framework with a Rails back end API. It can be a little harder to find a condensed source to help you go beyond simple GET requests. This tutorial is based off of a project called Snowcial, and will cover implementing CRUD actions for an existing groups model. You can substitute this with
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There's more than one way to build a cart

You know when you want to buy something online and you click a button to "add to basket" or something along those lines? I've been thinking about this process pretty extensively lately, and I've built a number of different carts. I'd like to think that now I know a few advantages and disadvantages to some different styles of cart. Consider this post a primer. The Session Hash Cart This is a very simple way to build a shopping cart and
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