April 1, 2005
Moved to a brand new dedicated server
The terror reign of intermittent MySQL errors has ended. We moved to a brand new dedicated server this morning thanks once again to the kind crew at TextDrive. UPDATE: The...
April 1, 2005
O'Reilly's CTO praises Rails to the chocolate skies
Rael Dornfest seems to be having a chocolate good time digging into the crunchy Rails. As the Chief Technology Officer at O’Reilly Media, he certainly has a good touch with...
March 31, 2005
Scaling the productivity gains on larger projects
Evan Rabble is the lead developer on the forthcoming podcasting portal Odeo. He’s being working with Rails for some time now and has just done a write-up on how the...
March 31, 2005
Reasonable expectations on a $12 plan
It’s great to see so many Railers sign up with TextDrive. They’re a great host and I’m happy to be associated with them. But unfortunately, it appears that there’s some...
March 31, 2005
Production Log Analyzer: Find slow pages
Eric Hodel has released the Production Log Analyzer: The Production Analyzer lets you find out which pages on your site are dragging you down. pl_analyze requires the use of SyslogLogger...
March 30, 2005
Going to the good video store
Josh C from the Eggplant Coop sent me the funniest switcher quote I’ve seen in a while: We compare moving to rails from our in-house perl web framework to the...
March 30, 2005
Verifying encoding approach to Action Mailer
If you’re deep into all the RFCs on email, we’d like your help ensuring that the latest approach to encoding with Action Mailer is sound. We’re going for an approach...
March 29, 2005
Brian McCallister to be preset Rails at ApacheCon
Under the session title of Cheap, Fast, and Good: You can have it all with Ruby on Rails, Brian McCallister will be presented at ApacheCon Europe 2005. The session will...
March 27, 2005
Rails 0.11.1: More Ajax, Verifications, SQL Server updated, loads of fixes
The Ajax wave is sweeping across Rails. In this release, we’ve added a :position option to both link_to_remote and form_remote_tag that can be set to either :before, :top, :bottom, or...
March 27, 2005
eXPlain Project Management Tool
eXtreme Programming and Ruby on Rails is a wonderful fit. Besides the most excellent support for test-driven development, XP works a whole lot better when your code base is so...