September 22, 2005
How did you get to Rails?
The Burton Group is in the final stages of their report to that elusive group of Fortune 500 CxOs and would like to top it off with some statistics on...
September 22, 2005
How to get SCGI running on your platform
Zed is trucking away on the Rails SCGI runner and its rapidly improving. The latest release 0.3.1 includes a bunch of documentation on how to get going on your platform....
September 22, 2005
Rails wiki resurrected with i2
The Rails wiki is back running on a brand-new engine called i2. It’s a fresh rewrite of Instiki with all the cruft cut out, most of the features, and of...
September 21, 2005
Ruby on Rails training at Big Nerd Ranch
The venerable Big Nerd Ranch have just announced that they’re offering an intensive 5-day course in Ruby on Rails. The man at the wheel is none other than Rails core...
September 21, 2005
Two recent reviews of Agile Web Development with Rails
If you’re still unsure as to whether buying Agile Web Development with Rails is a good idea, these two reviews might convince you. Glen Swinfield writes: After reading, probably 50%...
September 21, 2005
Ruby 1.8.3 has been released
But hold your horses on installing it for a production Rails system. At least one compatibility issue has been spotted between Rails 0.13.1 and Ruby 1.8.3. Over the next days,...
September 20, 2005
The wiki is down
While we’re working on bringing it back, you can get the HTML backup (2.6MB). The homepage for that export is broken, but the rest should be good. Madeleine is so...
September 19, 2005
Job site for Ruby (and Rails)
Jason Toy has created a new job site dedicated to Ruby-positions. It’s available at jobs.rubynow.com and already includes its first position for a Ruby on Rails developer for ODEO.
September 19, 2005
Talking points for management on Ruby on Rails
ThoughtWorks’ Obie Fernandez has put together a good collection of talking points on Ruby on Rails. This is a useful starting point if you need to convince a customer or...
September 19, 2005
Weed statistics and Ruby-powered sparklines
Weed is a new stats package in leu with Mint and others build using Ruby on Rails. It’s open source and rapidly improving. Do check it out. Part of Weed...