December 21, 2008
Mild refresh of rubyonrails.org
We’ve just launched a mild refresh of the rubyonrails.org site. It now runs on Radiant through Passenger at Slicehost and includes a nip and tuck in various places along with...
December 20, 2008
Performance of Rails Metal
Josh recently added Rails Metal, which has been getting a fair bit of publicity. Metal is a great piece of functionality for those rare cases where the speed of your...
December 19, 2008
This Week in Edge Rails
December 13-December 19, 2008 Edition The Rails team hasn’t been hibernating this week: 50 commits hit the edge branch, from a variety of developers. Here’s my pick of the most...
December 17, 2008
Introducing Rails Metal
Rails Edge adopted Rack a while back and we’ve been exploring ways to expose that better. The first thing we did was to make it really easy to hook up...
December 16, 2008
Hosting Ruby on Rails with Passenger
Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails has been on a tour de force lately and rightfully so. It makes Rails deployment so much simpler and combined with REE faster and with less...
December 15, 2008
Videos from Paris on Rails '08
I love how so many conferences are recording their sessions. Paris on Rails is another of those conferences and they’ve recently published their recordings as both video and audio. Most...
December 15, 2008
Videos from RailsConf Europe '08 live
Blip.tv have published the five keynote videos from RailsConf Europe 2008. It includes Jeremy’s excellent talk on Performance on Rails and my own Living with Legacy Software. Check ’em out....
December 12, 2008
This Week in Edge Rails
December 6-December 12, 2008 Edition Here’s your weekly roundup of the action out on the edge, where the code is exciting and sometimes even stable. There were only 32 commits...
December 10, 2008
RailsWay - German Rails Magazine
If you can read German and you develop with Rails you’ll be happy to know that it republik, the same company that also produces a Java, .NET, and PHP magazine,...
December 5, 2008
New REE with OS X, 64-bit, Solaris support and GC patches
Phusion is on a roll today. Not only did we just get a new Passenger, they’ve also just dropped a new REE (the Ruby patches for copy-on-write) that includes 64-bit...