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...
January 19, 2007
Rails 1.2: REST admiration, HTTP lovefest, and UTF-8 celebrations
Get out your party balloons and funny hats because we’re there, baby. Yes, sire, Rails 1.2 is finally available in all it’s glory. It took a little longer than we...
January 9, 2007
Rails blogging contest
Pat Eyler is running a Ruby blogging contest, sponsored by Apress, and the first month’s topic is Rails Revelations: How Rails made me a better programmmer. Read the requirements at...
January 8, 2007
Hackfest 2007 and CD Baby sprint
Ah, Portland. The open-source motherland. Pacific springtime beauty. RailsConf ’07 nirvana.rb # => true and home of CD Baby, a little record store that digs Ruby and Rails. We’re gearing...
January 6, 2007
Capistrano 1.3.1
I’ve been remiss in announcing recent Capistrano releases, so I’m making up for lost time now. Capistrano 1.3.1 is now available! Capistrano, for those of you that are late to...