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...
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...
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...
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...