November 17, 2005
Snakes and Rubies in Chicago on December 3rd
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...
November 11, 2005
Why engines and components are not evil but distracting
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...
November 8, 2005
Calling Virtual Earth from Ruby on Rails
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.
November 8, 2005
Play and help llor.nu
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...
November 7, 2005
Rails 1.0 RC4 (0.14.3): It's the final countdown!
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...
November 6, 2005
Liquid templates announced
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...
November 6, 2005
Inviting Rails extenders to join the rails-core ML
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...
November 6, 2005
Making REST web services with Ruby on Rails
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...
November 5, 2005
Komodo 3.5: IDE with support for Ruby on Rails
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...
November 5, 2005
Enterprise Integration with Ruby by Maik Schmidt
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...