January 25, 2005
Pedrosa on Rails vs WebWork: 'Language DOES matter'
Joao Pedrosa has been using both Rails and WebWork and iterates five key points on why “…WW is clearly inferior to Rails in every aspect” before arriving at the following...
January 25, 2005
'Ruby on Rails is unbelievably good'
Daryl discovers Ruby on Rails: Ruby on Rails is unbelievably good. It’s too good to be true almost… Quite honestly, in an afternoon I built a completely working web application...
January 25, 2005
Rich clients with Rails and XUL
Zed Shaw put together a simple proof of concept application in a couple of hours to demonstrate the possibilities for rich clients in Rails and XUL. Being XUL, it naturally...
January 24, 2005
Celebrating six months anniversary!
On July 24th of last year, Rails 0.5 was released through RubyForge. It mustered 357 downloads in just five days. Today, fifteen releases later, we’ve pushed more than ten thousand...
January 23, 2005
CD Baby leaves PHP behind for Ruby on Rails
Derek Sivers have just announced that CDBaby.com is about to embark on an application rewrite that’ll replace the 90,000 lines of PHP code with an alternative built using Ruby on...
January 23, 2005
Speeding up CGI access to Gem Rails
Jamis has a nice article demonstrating how he decreased the reload time from 2.4 seconds to just 1.1 seconds on CGI access to his Gem Rails application: Rails’ preferred installation...
January 22, 2005
Beyond the 10,000th gem install of Rails
All the latest attention have spurred downloads of Rails to new heights and we just surpassed the 10,000th gem installation of Rails (not counting all the beta gem installs or...
January 22, 2005
'That application is so stupid'
Just as Patrick Lightbody recants his ill-guided charge, Geert Bevin — also involved with a Java web-framework, this time RIFE — picks up the torch and tries his best to...
January 22, 2005
Programmer needed for JSP to Rails conversion
Gately’s would like to dump their JSP-powered shop and upgrade to Rails. They’re looking for Rails talent to help them do just that: We need a developer who is proficient...
January 22, 2005
"I think Ruby on Rails is way over hyped"
Patrick Lightbody is on the steering committee of the Java web-framework WebWork and not at all happy about all the attention Ruby on Rails is gaining. Apparently, it’s all terribly...