Rails News

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • FCGI replacement in the making for Rails

    Zed A. Shaw is working on a SCGI implementation in pure Ruby that’ll hopefully make for a more pleasant experience than FCGI once ready. He just announced the v0.3 of...

  • Ruby on Rails as a Burton Group telebriefing

    The Burton Group advices Fortune 500 CTOs and other big shots on existing and upcoming technology. On September 28th, they will host a telebriefing using a panel discussion with Dave...

  • Rails done quick: From scratch to app in 2 minutes

    Ryan Davis has cooked up a really cool video of Rails done quick. He uses OmniGraffle to design his schema, converts this to SQL, triggers a few home-grown scripts, and...

  • The eight steps of a Rails conversion

    Brett at San Antonio Safe List recalls the process that he has seen folks with PHP, Python, Java, and DBA experience go through when meeting Rails: Everything is so weird....

  • Ruby on Rails: "it's fucking horrible"

    This is a rare treat. Someone who actually gave Rails a good couple of hours, but couldn’t get anything done, and thus hates its guts: Well, I’ve found this: it’s...

  • Foopad: The Very Simple Wiki

    Foopad.com is a simple, hosted wiki done by Ben Nolan (the guy behind Behavior) using Ruby on Rails. It’s still early days and the WYSIWYG-editing seems to choke Safari, but...

  • Ruby on Rails rides into Asterisk on RAGI

    Asterisk is the open-source PBX that makes the phone an interesting and hackable device again. But the UI is more than a little geeky, which is where RAGI comes in....