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April 19, 2005
There’s nothing like pushing a new major update in order to find bugs in the code when its exposed to a couple of hundred working applications. Thankfully the fixes were...
April 18, 2005
The time had come to butcher the piggy-back query and introduce real association loading through outer joins. Behold, the glorious eager loading of associations that makes it silly easy to...
April 15, 2005
Since Rails is supposedly this über-productive bag of lightning bolts, you should be able to accomplish great things within a single clip of 24 hours, right? That’s the assumption Rails...
April 15, 2005
Lucas Carlson talks about how Portland is turning into a power zone for Rails development and how great his presentation there went last night: Last night I gave a presentation...
April 13, 2005
RForum is one of the earliest open source applications based on Rails, but it has only just reached a state where the authors Andreas Schwarz and Alexey Verkhovsky were willing...
April 13, 2005
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....
April 12, 2005
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...
April 11, 2005
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....
April 9, 2005
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...
April 6, 2005
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...