Here’s a good idea: Use a hot new technology to help kids prepare to create the next hot new technology. Amy Hoy, Ezra Zygmuntowicz and Jeff Casimir are doing just...
David A. Black’s book Ruby for Rails is now available in full in PDF form (paper copy scheduled to follow the first week of May). The book covers the ins...
The new gem version dependency system from Rails 1.1.1 needed a few tweaks to work properly and to stop throwing meaningless warnings. This tiny release makes up for that. To...
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...