February 28, 2005
Four Days on Rails
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...
February 28, 2005
"What the fuck are we gonna do now?!"
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...
February 28, 2005
RubyGems 0.8.6 fixes critical error
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...
February 28, 2005
Rails book slated for late-summer release
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...
February 27, 2005
Get a life-time TextDrive for $399
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...
February 27, 2005
Installing Rails through RubyGems 3x faster!
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...
February 25, 2005
Bruce Tate discovers Ruby on Rails
Bruce Tate is the author of Bitter Java and Bitter EJB, so if you were just judging by the titles of those books, you may not be too surprised that...
February 25, 2005
Rails 0.10.0 loves lighttpd
With the release of Rails 0.10.0, the reign of Apache has finally ended and equal opportunity for all web servers has been introduced. The most important beneficial of this is...
February 25, 2005
Rails for Strut-ters: Dealing with the view
Brian McCallister is doing an excellent job showing Strut-ters how Rails work by comparing it to their own environment. In this round, he’s taking a look at the oh-horror that...
February 25, 2005
What if I could just use Ruby on Rails...
Jaikoo wonders what the world would look like if he could just develop purely in a dynamic environment: One of the things I’m currently working on is this massively complex...