April 3, 2006
Exploring the performance of Rails 1.1
Stefan Kaes has posted both the executive summary of Rails 1.1 performance (up to 11% faster in special cases) and a complete explanation of most of the performance enhancing changes....
April 3, 2006
Mostly good news about freezing, Typo, and Rails 1.1.1
Let’s start with the good news about freezing and Rails 1.1.1: New applications will automatically bind to the gem version of Rails they were created with using a RAILS_GEM_VERSION constant...
April 2, 2006
Production Rails: Rails Training Gets Deeper and More Focused
As the art of Rails development matures, so do the ways we teach and learn about it. Following the release of Rails 1.1, the state of Rails training just took...
March 31, 2006
Upload Progress Helper and Rails 1.1
One of the casualties of the 1.1 release was the experimental upload progress helper. Unfortunately it didn’t work on all the platforms we support and it was a source of...
March 31, 2006
Freeze is cool, so freeze for goodness sake
Many shared hosts did a quick dance up and down at the release of Rails 1.1 because a large number of their customers were floating off the gems, which meant...
March 28, 2006
Rails 1.1: The Forgotten Features
Today, Mike Clark follows the release of Rails 1.1 with: Rails 1.1: The Forgotten Features, a writeup of some of the little changes in Rails 1.1 that, though not big...
March 28, 2006
Rails 1.1: RJS, Active Record++, respond_to, integration tests, and 500 other things!
The biggest upgrade in Rails history has finally arrived. Rails 1.1 boasts more than 500 fixes, tweaks, and features from more than 100 contributors. Most of the updates just make...
March 26, 2006
San Diego Ruby Users Group
There is some action down in San Diego on the Ruby and Rails front. The local RUG, after some time of inactivity, is revving back up. If you live in...
March 23, 2006
Rails for designers
Kevin Clark has written up Rails for designers, an intro to Rails directed at designers which focuses on the parts and concepts of the framework that are of most immediate...
March 22, 2006
The Jolt Award