Ruby on Rails
New Open Source Project
So I’ve finally decided to take on a project and make it open source. The project will become a ‘Basecamp’-esque clone. After being a Basecamp user for a long time, I have decided that there a couple things I would like to see and the best way to make that happen was to build it [...]
Agile Rails 3rd Edition beta is in my hands
Well everyone… you knew it was going to happen. The third edition of Agile Web Development with Rails is now out as a beta book. Anyone interested out there… go get it! Especially you beginners, you know who you are! I’ll hopefully have some time soon to do a proper review, so look for [...]
Rails development on Windows!
Yes, it can be done! Contrary to popular belief… Windows can be a great Rails development platform. I know that those Mac guys have you all convinced that it’s too hard and painful to do and you should just go be a switcher. Well today I am going to show you, with a little work, [...]
Rails 2.0 Migrations
Yesterday I gave a small presentation on migrations in Rails 2.0 for the Chicago Ruby group. It went fairly well I think. Not being the most in depth presentation… I hope that someone got something out of it. I think that the new Rake tasks were a little more interesting for the group [...]
Guys @ Dreamhost speaking their mind about Rails
The Dreamhost guys have posted a great editorial over at the Dreamhost Blog about Rails and where it needs to go to get better. The post seems to have been stemmed from the hot topic of Zed Shaw’s Rails rant from the past week (which I read and although some topics are valid.. really just [...]
