October 12, 2006
RuPy, Snakes and Rubies, Night and Day
A nice article by Calvin Spealman that discusses the dissimilarity of Ruby and Python and their respective importance.
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August 23, 2006
Unobtrusive Javascript for Rails (UJS) 0.3 Released
Luke Redpath and Dan Webb have released version 0.3 of their plugin for Rails to allow unobtrusive javascript. UJS now has its own dedicated website with docs and Trac. Discussion of this plugin on the official Rails blog shows there is interest in this plugin from members of Rails core, but it [...]
August 10, 2006
Rails security vulnerability in 1.1.4
Evan Weaver has posted some new insight into the recent patch released for RoR.
“Core team discovered a security vulnerability in recently released 1.1.4., and then came to the conclusion, same as I did, that 1.0 and some intermediate 1.1 releases are not affected.
It looks like, for example, that if your Rails installation is in /www/rails/, [...]
August 9, 2006
SimpleLog 1.1 Released
Garrett Murray has released SimpleLog 1.1, a Ruby on Rails blog application. I had the pleasure of beta testing during this phase of development and have nothing but good things to say about it. In fact I am in process of converting WordPress over to a slightly modified version of SimpleLog 1.1 as you read [...]
August 3, 2006
REST on Rails
Earlier articles in the Crossing borders series introduced Ruby on Rails as an explosively popular framework that’s serving as a catalyst for the Ruby programming language. As Ruby experiences increasing success, developers are seeking to integrate their Ruby applications with applications written in other languages. Rails provides excellent support for Web services. This article introduces [...]
July 17, 2006
SVN on OS X Tutorial
Garrett over at Maniacal Rage has a great tutorial on getting SVN setup for your ruby on rails app if your running OS X. This all assumes you’ve got Ruby, LightTPD (not required), SVN and Ruby on Rails already installed. If so, head on over and learn what to do next.
July 15, 2006
Framework Performance in Ruby on Rails
We recently decided to switch our projects to a MVC framework and our choice of the framework came down to three final contenders:
Symfony on PHP http://www.symfony-project.com/
Rails on Ruby http://rubyonrails.org/
Django on Python http://www.djangoproject.com/
To better understand the pros and cons of each, we wrote a very simple demo application in all three. The app we chose was [...]
July 9, 2006
19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don’t Know
When looking at my own Rails code and that of the community as a whole, I often see places where certain Rails techniques could have been used, but weren’t. As much for my own memory as yours, I thought I’d list down some Rails tricks and tips that can make your application or code more [...]
July 8, 2006
TextMate Cheat Sheet for Ruby and Rails Developers
Pragmatic Programmer, Mike Clark, has produced a single page PDF cheat sheet of about fifty TextMate keyboard shortcuts to speed up your Ruby development.
June 21, 2006
Learn Ruby in 15 minutes
This web application integrates a live Ruby compiler and holds your hand through ever step of the way. Great way to see what Ruby can do.
