Richard Monson-Haefel has a simple tutorial up on oracle.com that describes how and why to use Ruby on Rails with an Oracle database. It’s great to see big organizations like...
Patrick Lenz has announced his acts_as_searchable plugin which integrates ActiveRecord models with HyperEstraier, an open source fulltext search engine. It’s available as a gem so you can just do sudo...
Rails 1.1 was a big upgrade with a lot of new features and we’ve been working hard since its release to polish off the kinks revealed after it was deployed...
Rails 1.1 lets you run your app right from the console by exposing the new Integration Testing framework. Mike Clark, of Pragmatic Studio and the upcoming Production Rails fame, has...
So you’ve probably figured by now that polymorphic associations don’t play well with :through. It’s a pretty tough problem to solve, but thankfully there are ways around it. Josh Susser...
Stefan Kaes has posted both the executive summary of Rails 1.1 performance (up to 11% faster in special cases) and a complete explanation of most of the performance enhancing changes....
Let’s start with the good news about freezing and Rails 1.1.1: New applications will automatically bind to the gem version of Rails they were created with using a RAILS_GEM_VERSION constant...
As the art of Rails development matures, so do the ways we teach and learn about it. Following the release of Rails 1.1, the state of Rails training just took...
One of the casualties of the 1.1 release was the experimental upload progress helper. Unfortunately it didn’t work on all the platforms we support and it was a source of...
Many shared hosts did a quick dance up and down at the release of Rails 1.1 because a large number of their customers were floating off the gems, which meant...