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February 4, 2007
Obie walks through the technique for getting more search engine-friendly URLs and still retain the ease of use with auto-incrementing ids. It’s the same technique we used on the new...
February 4, 2007
Capistrano is a utility for executing commands in parallel on multiple machines, such as for automating the deployment of applications. Version 1.4.0 is now available. To install: gem install capistrano...
February 2, 2007
So we had a suspicion that the seats for RailsConf ‘07 would sell fast, but this is ridiculously. A few hours after we’ve opened for registrations that close to more...
February 2, 2007
Come May 17th, the Oregon Convention Center in Portland will host the second annual RailsConf and if you want to be there, you better get your registration in early. Last...
February 2, 2007
As hosts start expanding their hosting options, it’s becoming more important for folks to get together and share their deployment knowledge and trade war stories. Robby Russell thought it was...
February 1, 2007
We’re on the home stretch now, and Rails is getting more and more solid every day. With you all helping, we should be able to finish off the remaining failures,...
January 31, 2007
Patrick Lenz wrapped up yet another Rails book: Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications, published by SitePoint. This one takes a beginners look at the Rails 1.2 framework,...
January 29, 2007
If you are using SQLite3 with a Rails application, make sure you are using SQLite3 3.3.7 or earlier. Versions after 3.3.7 incompatibly changed the way in which default values are...
January 29, 2007
Omninerd published an introduction to ActiveMerchant. AM is a credit card processing library extracted from Shopify in much the same way Rails was originally extracted from Basecamp. Processing Credit Cards...
January 29, 2007
We’ve reviewed, committed, and scored the patch flood. Congratulations to our twenty RailsConf 2007 Hackfest winners. Truly, a crack team of Rails commandos. Over 24 days, we saw 263 participants...