Dion Almer is pondering the difference in how the Ruby and Java communities have dealt with natural selection in web-application frameworks. About Rails, he writes: There were various web frameworks...
I’m proud to announce the launch of the first e-tailer to go life with Rails Inside: Snowdevil. Especially so because the team behind it has core contributor Tobias Luekte at...
The father of Java, James Gosling, is traveling the down under and has some.. erhm.. “interesting” thoughts on scripting languages. I’m getting these sound bytes from Alan Fracis’ summary of...
Learn how to build an address book using Rails. Or, learn to read Portuguese, then learn how to build that address book. Regardless of whether you need step two of...
The weblogging system powering Sarah Wedde’s ever funny One Before has been baptized Tentacle and made available through SVN. I didn’t even know. Yet another example for people to learn...
Justin French have survived the first week on his transitionary journey from PHP to Rails. I have special sympathy for refugees from that camp as I used to do a...
Amy Hoy is a designer, programmer, and writer digging into Rails. She read Curt Hibbs’ great introduction article on Rails at O’Reilly’s OnLAMP, but decided she’d like to decorate it...
Jim Weirich is introducing Ruby to XP Cincinnati next week and would like to know which ten things would be most important for Java programmers to get about Ruby. He...
Mike Clark, author of Pragmatic Project Automation, caught up with me for a few quick questions about the automation of Rails. A snippet: Mike: Everybody who tries Rails raves about...
This release is mostly about polishing the Rails by closing holes, deficiencies, and subtle extensions to existing features. The long-awaited Directions and generator upgrade have been postponed to the next...