Rails is a web-application and persistence framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web-applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern of separation. This pattern splits the view (also called the presentation) into &am
Here's a fact of life about Rails: Deployment of a Rails application can get complicated. Fast. There are a lot of different ways to do it and everybody's situation is slightly different. This can be a total bummer because it's so damn easy to get started
RadRails is an integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework. The goal of this project is to provide Rails developers with everything they need to develop, manage, test and deploy their applications. Features include source control, d
This tutorial is not a rails recipe - it does not show you how to make a specific engine, but rather the steps to making an engine in general. In case you want to follow along, but don’t have a ready application to turn into an engine, I suggest creatin
Meanwhile, development of an alternative to WEBrick was under way, by a guy named Zed Shaw, called Mongrel. It seems Zed just got fed up and decided to change the Rails deployment world with his own bare hands. This is good news for all of us and the best
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 ma
Inspired by ASP.NET’s System.Web.UI.WebControls.Calendar, this calendar helper allows you to draw a databound calendar with fine-grained CSS formatting without introducing any new requirements for your models, routing schemes, etc.