Chicago is turning into the hotbed for web-application framework development with both a majority of the Rails and Django teams in town. So we thought we’d celebrate that with a...
I’ve been following the enthusiasm for engines, components, and bigger plugins from the sidelines for a while now. It’s a subject of very mixed emotions. On the one hand, I’m...
Luke Burton has a cool article on how to integrate Virtual Earth and Ruby on Rails. It’s surprisingly easy and relies only on libraries shipping in the box.
Michael Buffington has just opened up llor.nu for general consumption. It’s an open source board game built on Rails. Besides the hosted version, you can download the source and Michael...
Comrades, we are so close to the goal that the relieve should be tastable. The mythical 1.0 release is now penned to be the very next release once we rattle...
Liquid is a brand new template engine optimized for xhtml and emails. It features a very clean syntax and speedy execution speeds. The main difference to traditional ERb is that...
If you’re working on patches for Rails, you should sign up for the rails-core mailing list. It’s much more low-traffic than the regular Rails mailing list and designated exclusively for...
O’Reilly’s XML.com has a new article entitled REST on Rails that explores the building of a simple REST-based web service. They even finish up with a tad of meta-programming to...
RadRails is getting company from commercial player ActiveState that has recently shipped Komodo 3.5, their IDE for dynamic languages. Komodo features support for Ruby and Rails and is available on...
Maik Schmidt is the contributor and maintainer of the DB2 database adapter for Active Record. He’s now also an author of Enterprise Integration with Ruby, which has just been released...