Deirdre recently gave a presentation at BarCamp that compares the implementation of the same application in Apple’s WebObjects to Ruby on Rails. It includes this graph that contrasts the code-base...
Tim Case has started a series of entries on his blog called Reading on Rails. In this series, he examines how some of the major trends in software development, like...
Ralf Wirdemann and Thomas Baustert are relentlessly pushing Ruby on Rails in Germany. Besides working on the Web-Entwicklung mit Ruby on Rails book, they will be presenting at XP-Days Germany,...
SAP is one of the ERP behemoths that dominates in the enterprise world. Pretty far removed from Rails? Not really, it turns out. Piers Harding has written a great article...
Jason Hunter explains in an article called The Innovator’s Dilemma: It’s Happening to Java why there’s such a big interest in Ruby on Rails from the big Java thinkers like...
As the 37signals applications have scaled up to run on multiple servers, we needed a better way to manage the deployment phase. We wanted to automate that all six servers...
James Duncan Davidson and Mike Clark has delivered on their first large, commercial Rails project together: VitalSource Bookshelf. It’s a book store that aims to make it as easy to...
In case you’re wondering with it’s :controller => "weblog" and not just "controller" => "weblog", you want to read Kevin Clark’s Understanding Ruby Symbols. It gives a number of angles...