Alexey Verkhovsky has completed the transition of Instiki to a Rails-based core that uses the latest versions of all the framework instead of the ‘03 dialects it was currently running....
Jon Tirsen has taken a closer look at the differences between the threaded scaling approach in J2EE and using Rails with FastCGI. While the former requires object pools, induces thread-safety...
The pursuit of Ajax nirvana with Rails is marching ahead with breath-taking haste. Thomas Fuchs has compiled a demonstration page of all the effects that we’ve added to the package....
Hank Roar is the customer on a project being developed by ThoughtWorker Obie. He’s quite pleased with the progress: Never under estimate the importance of allowing developers to use the...
Peter Cooper has just launched Snippets. It’s a paste site that injects the wonderful idea of tagging into the mix. Peter announced it with: Less than two days ago I...
Congratulations to Scott Barron for pursuing the life of the independent consultant. Especially so, of course, because he’ll be doing it as a Ruby on Rails specialist. We already have...
If form-based authentication is a bad fit for your application, you might consider using good old HTTP authentication. It’s really easy too. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Hero Coders shows you...
Tobias Lütke’s blogging engine Typo is storming ahead with good stuff lately. He recently implemented even-prettier URLs and Ajaxed the comments section. Now Patrick Lenz has brought the web service...
Jarkko Laine is spreading the good word of Rails all around Finland. He’s doing a guest lecturer about Rails at Tampere University of Technology and he just spotted a nice...
Sacha Ebach shows you how to deal with multi-lingual applications in Using Gettext to translate your Rails application. It’s a complete guide talking about what tools you need, the structure...