It has been made official. The title of the first Rails book is going to be Agile Web Development with Rails and its currently being written by Dave Thomas. A...
Scratch is a very interesting weblog package by Scott Barron (and with help from Sam Stephenson) that shuns any HTML interface: Scratch is the minimalist’s web log. Scratch gives you...
Matt Moriarity has managed to do something I’ve been pledging for a long time: Record an updated video for Rails 0.10 using lighttpd and not“cheating” by using scaffolding. Very cool....
TJ Vanderpoel is currently preparing a case study on how he scaled his mortgage processing application with a single lighttpd web server powered by a cluster of FastCGI application servers....
John McCreesh has published a great new 30+ paged tutorials for getting started with Rails entitled Four Days on Rails. Rails is well documented on-line; in fact, possibly too well...
Master: “Hmmm. The argument on programmer productivity seems to be lost..” Apprentice: “It’s game over, man. Just game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now?!” Master: “You are...
So now that you just upgraded to RubyGems 0.8.5, please do so again to 0.8.6. The 0.8.5 version contained a bad bug that would render the rails command to create...
Dave Thomas is busy writing the first Rails book and has been making great progress lately. In his blog post Quite a Week For Rails, he says: I’ve actually finished...
TextDrive is our wonderful host. They’re contributing big time to the development of Rails and are up to date with the latest (like exploring lighttpd as an Apache alternative). They’ve...
RubGems 0.8.5 has been released and turbo-charges the installation of new gems and updating of the repository lists. In general, it’s about three times faster than the old version. All...