Rails 0.14.x and forward contains a hefty performance increase for the MySQL adapter, but it requires that you have the latest version of the underlying, native bindings (2.7). On Stephan...
Some times you just need an outside opinion to achieve true clarity of vision. Thankfully, there’s always such an angel available when you need it the most: Rails shows some...
Dave Thomas and Mike Clark will be playing for a full house in Reston as they deliver their first Pragmatic Studio workshop on Ruby on Rails. Congratulations, guys!
Refactoring Rails is a new site in the making by Jeremy Voorhis and Robby Russell that’ll focus on how you can make sure that “…your code is for a human...
A bunch of good articles on various Rails-related topics lately: Bar graphs with gruff: Make Keynote-like pretty graphs with RMagick without breaking a sweat. The Joy of Migrations: Step by...
Mike Clark has written a very thorough guide and explanation for the change in testing defaults we arrived at with Rails 1.0. It goes through what to change and why...
One of the more exciting new community features in Rails 0.14 is the plugin system. It drastically lowers the barrier for people that wants to distribute their changes to the...