SwitchTower author Jamis Buck has provided an excellent manual documenting how to use it. Those who’ve taken the plunge are loving how easy it makes deployment, as well as myriad...
The Future of Web Apps summit put on by Carson Workshops was a veritable who’s who with representatives from Delicious, Flickr, Yahoo, Google and others. David Heinemeier Hansson was there...
Hot on the heals of the fervor behind the upcoming RailsConf, the location of RubyConf 2006 has been announced. This fall it’s going to be in Denver, Colorado from October...
Ever working with a model and you forget what all of its columns are? Ever find yourself with your schema.rb open in a separate window so you can see what...
So now that we’ve forced our technology of web applications upon the world with Ruby on Rails, we decided to get opinionated about everything else involved too. Getting Real, the...
Changeset 3726 adds two little methods to ActiveSupport: Enumerable#group_by and @ Array#in_groups_of@. Enumerable#group_by is for collecting an enumerable into sets, grouped by the result of a block. Useful, for example,...
ObjectiveView, a journal for software developers that focuses each issue on a specific topic, has two Ruby related articles in their latest issue, New Technologies Focus. The first is an...
If you’ve ever tried to properly test complex scenarios involving multiple controller actions, you will notice that the Rails Functional Tests fall flat. The new Integration Tests, which have just...
Jim Weirich has been using Ruby for ages. He’s one of the early-adopter all-stars from the days before Rails. Rails programmers will be familiar with his wildly popular and influencial...
The Apple Developer Connection has a nice Ruby on Rails tutorial called Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X. As the title suggests, it is aimed...