May 19, 2006
Tomek Piatek and others have started Well Railed, the Rails User’s Group in Wellington, NZ. The first meeting will be on the 30th May at 6:30-ish at Hell Pizza in...
May 18, 2006
The latest Rails podcast features Tom Copeland, one of the guys who generously runs RubyForge. Some might be surprised to know that Rich Kilmer and Tom Copeland have been running...
May 18, 2006
Zed Shaw’s new (mostly) Ruby webserver Mongrel has been getting people’s attention lately. What started out as perhaps just an itch has turned into a full time project for Zed,...
May 18, 2006
Kevin Clark, the guy whose recently taken on the documentation cleanup project, is diversifying his documentation work. His latest idea: weekly interactive guides. Write into Kevin with requests on a...
May 18, 2006
Nathaniel Talbott of test/unit fame has just released a new plugin he calls QueryTrace. I’ll let him explain what it does: It’s nice that ActiveRecord logs the queries that are...
May 17, 2006
Watching the RSS feed from the Ruby on Rails trac is a great way to keep up on what’s happening in Rails development. If you’re doing any development on the...
May 17, 2006
You may already know Josh Susser from his excellent blog has_many :through. After linking up 5 of his posts in a row we figured it would be easier to cut...
May 16, 2006
For those of you in the Silicon Valley, Zachary Taylor and others are starting up a Ruby on Rails group and are looking for people interested in joining in. They...
May 15, 2006
Chad Fowler’s excellent Rails Recipes, quickly becoming the de facto companion to the canonical Agile Web Development with Rails, is out of beta and off to the printers. Now that...
May 14, 2006
The chaps at the JRuby project has been making rapid progress in anticipation of JavaOne. They finally got a simple, but complete Rails application running. I hear it’s not breaking...