There's a lot of buzz around the Ruby on Rails framework at the moment. Something that doesn't get a lot of attention is it's scalability solution: FastCGI. Partly because it doesn't seem very exciting on first glance and partly because it's so fundamenta
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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
I get a lot of emails about packing and distributing Rails applications with Tar2RubyScript and RubyScript2Exe. It obviously wasn't easy to come up with the steps that have to be taken to transform a Rails application into a standalone application. Since
A former student asked me a few days ago how I learned Ruby on Rails. The answer was that I simply read alot of great tutorials. So in the spirit of sharing, here are the 12 tutorials that I found most useful:
I’m sad to say that I have to recommend people not use lighttpd anymore. The author hasn’t updated the mod_proxy plugin and isn’t providing too much support for the bugs it has. If you’re running lighttpd and you constantly see 500 errors that are
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dbmodel is a tool to generate Rails files (models, scaffolds) from a free graphic database design tool, DBDesigner 4. You can create tables in DBDesigner, specify table relations, synchronize the model with a MySQL database, and then use dbmodel to automa
What is Mongrel? Mongrel is a fast HTTP library and server for Ruby that is intended for hosting Ruby web applications of any kind using plain HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI. It is framework agnostic and already supports Ruby On Rails, Og+Nitro, and Cam
Last week I have discovered zentest, an automated test process command line utility. That was at the beginning (hopefully) of a new project. Believe it or not, I have started to code most parts of the application without using a web browser for the
About "ActionWebService: Web services on Rails" This manual describes Action Web Service, the web services support for Rails. It provides an overview of how the various components fit together, and examples for implementing your own web service APIs for R
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Are you sure you want to be mainstream? Cedric wrote a very flattering article in which he exalted the virtues and benefits of Ruby on Rails. He talks about a love for the language and features that are dreams come true. But he also pauses his flatter to