Discover the latest Rails news, version releases, community updates, and feature announcements.
December 22, 2005
We’ve been receiving various reports of intermittent errors while running Rails applications and regular Ruby stuff that goes something like this: “undefined method ‘include?’ for -517611318:Fixnum”. It appears that this...
December 22, 2005
The release of Ruby 1.8.4 is drawing close. We’d love to be compatible out the gates, so please do help by testing your application with the latest preview. RedHanded has...
December 22, 2005
Rick Olson has a great service running for people with questions about Rails development. The site is called Rails Weenie and allows you to ask questions to the community in...
December 22, 2005
IBM’s developerWorks has a new article on how you can do automate acceptance tests with Selenium against a Ruby on Rails application.
December 21, 2005
GodBit has an interview with Scott Raymond about his use of Ruby on Rails in Blinksale and IconBuffet. I particularly enjoyed this bit about the opinionated software: If you pay...
December 21, 2005
Obie Fernandez has a great story on how ThoughtWorks recently won a $800,000 bid for a critical application against another consultancy. They probably do that all the time, but the...
December 20, 2005
Microsoft’s Robert Scoble is concerned about the exodus of developers like Phil Ripperger that are leaving .NET for Ruby on Rails. Phil put it like this: Scoble, as a web...
December 20, 2005
Stuart Halloway explains in numbers how picking Rails over Java affects the bids he puts in for consulting jobs. Since the actual programming is only one part of the bid,...
December 20, 2005
Geoffrey has interviewed Rick Olson aka Technoweenie for the Rails Podcast. Rick explains the Rails plugin system, RJS templates, and Rails-weenie.
December 20, 2005
O’Reilly has a new article on Rails exploring how it can help you tame the open-source PBX system Asterisk: Hacking Asterisk and Rails with RAGI.