January 17, 2005
Rails 0.9.4: Caching, filters, SQLite3...
Another incredibly strong release sees the light of day as we move one step closer to the mythical 1.0. This release tackles one of the five steps on the roadmap...
January 16, 2005
An unusual high presence of Macs
Most of the core developers in the Rails community are using Macs and they’re certainly not afraid to say so. In the hours surrounding the latest MacWorld, the #rubyonrails channel...
January 15, 2005
Having problems running tests under 1.8.2?
Unfortuntately, the snapshot of test/unit included in Ruby 1.8.2 is broken for use with Rake. Steps are being made to remedy the situation, but in the mean while, you can...
January 13, 2005
It\'s all about the applications
While videos and talk are all nice and good, it’s the applications built that has the power to propel frameworks into stardom. Basecamp has served as a flag bearer for...
January 13, 2005
But what does "proven" really mean?
Michael J. discusses the obligation of the consultant to pick proven technology for custom jobs, but comes to the conclusion that the question is out of sync. It should focus...
January 12, 2005
Rails runs through XP Cincinnati
Jim Weirich is a member of the Extreme Programming Cincinnati user group that up until their last meeting was largely a Java gathering. Then something happened as Jim started to...
January 12, 2005
Rails go web services with XML-RPC prototype
Lars Hoss wanted an XML-RPC interface to his Rails-based weblog, so he hacked up a quick prototype: Pretty neat! We’re currently investigating a number of different schemes for how to...
January 10, 2005
RedHanded out-evangelizes the evangelizer
I thought I was on with my game of spotting every Rails praise around the net and reposting it here in the praise category, but apparently I need to be...
January 9, 2005
Rails on Lighttpd with FastCGI
Although Apache is the default choice of web server for Rails, it is by now means tied to it. Any web server that’s capable of doing a wee bit of...
January 8, 2005
Have a codefest and collect cash from RubyCentral
Chad Fowler just reminded the Ruby community that free money is up for grabs if you have a cool idea for a codefest. There’s a total of $1,500 in the...