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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • S5 Presents competes with SoapBX

    This is funny. With SoapBX barely out the gates, Lucas Carlson has already launched a competitor with S5 Presents that does themes and is open source. He even claims to...

  • 3,000 people are doing 10,804 things...

    43things.com has just been in the air for a week and already do they have 3,000 people are doing 10,804 things! That’s an incredible achievement in such a short period...

  • Jamis Buck is working on Basecamp

    Along with the announcement of the latest major upgrade to Basecamp, I’ve unveiled who the mysterious programmer we’ve brought on at 37signals is. So I thought I’d also wish him...

  • Nicholas presents the Directors

    Nicholas Seckar is busy working away on the Directors — the next-generation URL mapping scheme for Rails — yet still took the time to explain how its going to work....

  • Road Map: The rails leading to 1.0

    Rails is already an incredibly capable environment, but we’re still not quite ready to slap on the 1.0 sticker according to my own standards for that label. So what’s missing?...