March 16, 2006
Bruce Tate on the Rails podcast
While down in Austin for SXSW, Geoffrey Grosenbach caught up with Bruce Tate for the Ruby on Rails podcast. Bruce talks about how Rails is the catalyst behind a sea...
March 15, 2006
Rails makes headlines down under
The Australian version of ComputerWorld has a great article about how Ruby on Rails is helping Spin Technologies migrate school portal schoolseek.com.au get off .NET. Jordan Brock speaks about how...
March 9, 2006
Fast Rake Task Completion for Zsh
Those of you who love running Rake tasks but don’t like typing are in for a treat. Although there’s been task completion for Rake for a while now, most of...
March 7, 2006
2.5 Million Requests
In case you were wondering if Rails can scale: Eric Hodel reports that the Robot Co-op served 2,587,240 requests through their Rails applications last Saturday. Do you have any scalability...
March 6, 2006
Capistrano 1.1
Capistrano is a utility for executing tasks in parallel across multiple remote hosts. It was formerly known as SwitchTower. Installation: gem install capistrano Version 1.1 introduces a few changes: The...
March 6, 2006
SwitchTower is now Capistrano
We were served with a “cease and desist” from Raindance Communications, Inc. over the use of their registered trademark SWITCHTOWER on Friday. This led to a wild three-day brainstorming session...
March 5, 2006
Rick Olson joins the Rails core
Rick Olson aka technoweenie has been granted the rank of core and will join the new 12-strong group of developers with commit rights to the Rails source. Rick has long...
March 3, 2006
Sneak peak at effortless deployment with Rails Machine
SwitchTower author Jamis Buck has provided an excellent manual documenting how to use it. Those who’ve taken the plunge are loving how easy it makes deployment, as well as myriad...
March 3, 2006
Audio from Future of Web Apps summit
The Future of Web Apps summit put on by Carson Workshops was a veritable who’s who with representatives from Delicious, Flickr, Yahoo, Google and others. David Heinemeier Hansson was there...
March 3, 2006
RubyConf 2006 location announced
Hot on the heals of the fervor behind the upcoming RailsConf, the location of RubyConf 2006 has been announced. This fall it’s going to be in Denver, Colorado from October...