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  • 8th slashdotting ticks in on 'Room for both?'

    The Struts/Hibernate vs Rails comparison from a while back is the latest fresh stuff at Slashdot. This marks the 8th Slashdotting of Rails. Coming up on the big 10 soon...

  • Where are the hours wrestling with JavaScript in venkmann?

    Jaikoo is longing to feel like a man again. And nothing like doing long hours debugging impossible JavaScript has that feel of a hard day’s work: In fact its so...

  • The Rails weblog moves to Typo (finally!)

    When we originally launched rubyonrails.org, none of the Rails-based blogging engines were really up to the task of running the show. But with the appearance of Typo and it’s massive...

  • David Geary demonstrates Rails at Denver Java User Group

    David Geary did a cool demonstration of Rails yesterday at the Denver Java User Group by getting a member of the audience, unfamiliar with Rails, to do the demo for...

  • Working professionally with Rails?

    We’re trying to get a sense of who and where people are doing commercial work with Rails. So is the framework paying at least a substantial part of your bills?...

  • Productize your application from a common base

    Duane Johnson has a great how-to on productizing your application. Which basically means that you have a core application that you need to tailor ever so slightly for each customer....

  • Integrating Wee components in Rails applications

    Michael Neumann has released a new version of Wee, which allows for integration of its components with Rails applications. He wrote up a small tutorial on how to do it...

  • Convincing those CxO's to see beyond Struts

    Matt Raible hopes to become a Ruby on Rails developer, but has doubts on how exactly he’s going to convince CxO’s to see beyond Struts. Matt recognizes that it’s not...

  • Comparing J2EE and Rails on developerWorks

    Aaron Rustad, Technical Architect for Anassina, has written Ruby on Rails and J2EE: Is there room for both? for IBM’s developerWorks. It compares Rails with Struts and show the power...

  • EPSON chooses Rails for developer site

    Jason Wong of ionami has announced that they’ve just launched epsondevelopers.com for EPSON on a Rails platform: ionami has been working with EPSON for over 3 years. While we created...