RailsConf gave birth to a number of new outlets for sub-communities within the Rails family: </p><p> #rails-contrib is a new IRC channel on freenode for contributors to Rails. The Rails...
It’s been said that the two last hard problems in programming are naming things and expiring caches. The first is going to be hard to sidestep entirely, but what if...
The upcoming Capistrano 2.0 release continues to evolve! Remote administration of single servers and server clusters has never been easier. With Capistrano, you can: Deploy web applications with a single...
O’Reilly has analyzed the book sales once again. Here are the juicy bits about Ruby and Rails books: In the Web design and development area, it’s worth noting that Ruby...
Joyent’s Slingshot technology for creating offline-capable Rails applications has gone public. They’re even doing a competition to celebrate: The best ports of various open source Rails applications can win a...
The first Czech Ruby on Rails conference is coming to Ostrava this summer: mark your calendar for June 22-23. Talks are in English and registration is open now!
Capistrano 2.0 Preview 1 is now available for installing and testing: gem install -s http://gems.rubyonrails.com capistrano (It’ll show up as version 1.99.0; the 1.99.x series will be used as the...
We’re putting the finishing touches on the RailsConf 2007 schedule this week. Given the huge number of high quality proposals (well over 3 times the number from last year), we’re...
Eric Mill went ahead and created Jester, a library that lets you manipulate your Rails-style resources with javascript models. I think it’s great that we’re seeing implementations in other languages....