February 1, 2007
JRuby enters the home stretch for Rails support
We’re on the home stretch now, and Rails is getting more and more solid every day. With you all helping, we should be able to finish off the remaining failures,...
January 31, 2007
Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications
Patrick Lenz wrapped up yet another Rails book: Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications, published by SitePoint. This one takes a beginners look at the Rails 1.2 framework,...
January 29, 2007
Using SQLite3 with Rails
If you are using SQLite3 with a Rails application, make sure you are using SQLite3 3.3.7 or earlier. Versions after 3.3.7 incompatibly changed the way in which default values are...
January 29, 2007
Processing Credit Cards
Omninerd published an introduction to ActiveMerchant. AM is a credit card processing library extracted from Shopify in much the same way Rails was originally extracted from Basecamp. Processing Credit Cards...
January 29, 2007
Hackfest 2007 winners
We’ve reviewed, committed, and scored the patch flood. Congratulations to our twenty RailsConf 2007 Hackfest winners. Truly, a crack team of Rails commandos. Over 24 days, we saw 263 participants...
January 25, 2007
Ajax on Rails
Scott Raymond latest book, Ajax on Rails, has recently been published by O’Reilly. He also wrote What’s New in Prototype 1.5? on XML.com regarding the latest changes for Prototype 1.5....
January 23, 2007
Mongrel 1.0
To coincide with Rails 1.2.1, Zed just made Mongrel 1.0.1 official. He also points out that he started working on Mongrel around January, making it around 1 year old too....
January 23, 2007
Rails Cookbook
Rob Orsini released the new Rails Cookbook from O’Reilly, just in time for Rails 1.2. Just from looking at the table of contents, it looks like there’s a lot of...
January 19, 2007
Haml 1.0
Since we’re all celebrating new releases, it seems only fair to point out that Haml, an alternative markup format to Rails’ RHTML templates, has reached the lofty version of 1.0....
January 19, 2007
Prototype 1.5: Now with a manual!
Prototype 1.5 shipped together with Rails 1.2 today. But that’s not all that’s been happening at the JavaScript sugar mill. Today also marks the official unveiling of prototypejs.org. A brand...