Railscasts: Passenger in Development. Ryan Bates discusses the usage of Phusion Passenger in his latest Railscast. Besides showing the ease of using Passenger, he also shows how much easier it is to setup an application with our PassengerPane than by hand. ¶
Artweb design: Finally. Ruby on Rails gets internationalized. Nice pragmatic i18n/l10n solution. ¶
Phusion Corporate Blog: Phusion Passenger™ 2.0 RC 1 and Ruby Enterprise Edition released. Now supports Rack and WSGI (yes, Python) too. ¶
RubyEnRails 2008: De Nederlandse Ruby En Rails Conferentie. Ruby and Rails conference in Amsterdam. No idea why they still haven’t switched to English. ¶
Hackety Org: Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine. “Neither of us stands a chance against Javascript. Why persist with this pitiful feud?” ¶
Ongoing: Ruby 1.9 I18n and Mashup Testing. “TDD [...] It took less than an hour. And if I’d done it the right way the first time, it would have taken less time. Yes, I know all the good programmers out there already know that; I’m just publishing this to punish myself.” ¶
Jamis Buck: Capistrano 2.3.0. Nice update. We manage a little over 25 web apps (from multiple sites on a single server to a Rails app running on a 10-node cluster) and we would be spending a lot more time on deployment and maintenance if we didn’t have Capistrano. ¶
Andy Lo-A-Foe: De TV Flat (KRO). Impressive side project. ¶
Prada SS08 prototypes auction. Still running on the Rails backend we built last year. ¶
赖洪礼的 blog: The hidden corners of Passenger. “Passenger strives for a concept that we call ‘zero maintenance’.” A worthy goal. ¶
Opera Developer Community: Stop using Ajax! “[...] the emergence of Ajax techniques has inspired a whole new wave of applications, but in many (if not most) cases, these applications don’t actually need Ajax to work [...] we can cherry-pick the best ideas – we can build Web 2.0 applications without using Ajax.” True. ¶
37signals: Hire family people. We’re hiring family people too. Email me at thijs@fngtps.com if you’re interested. ¶
Geoff Buesing: Rails 2.1 Time Zone Support. Great overview. ¶
PragDave: Playing with a Testing Library. Kinda like it. ¶
37signals: All code will eventually go stale. “[...] beware the lure of a full Spring cleaning. You’ll get pulled in and before you know it you’ve broken half the application and won’t know how to get back out with your ego or tests intact. Add your feature, fix your bug, and leave everything you touch in better condition than you found it, but that’s it. Move on from there.” ¶
Joyeur: Billions Served. “P.S. the application is a Rails app. I think these facts put to bed any issues regarding Rails and scaling.” ¶
Google Groups: Amsterdam.rb. Amsterdam’s Ruby User Group. First meeting will be on Monday the 28th of January, which is my birthday so I won’t be there. ¶
Thomas Fuchs: Consulting for Web User Interfaces and JavaScript. Great interaction and visual design, love the personal yet professional tone. ¶
37signals: How do you test your software?. Great advice. ¶
Ongoing: Bad Ruby “Look, dammit, Ruby isn’t an insurgency or a conspiracy or a party, it’s a profession and a vocation and we’re getting getting paid for doing it. So why the flaming hell are we meeting on weekends like Trekkies or scrapbookers?” That’s why our morning coffee meetings are always on weekdays and why I almost never attend conferences. ¶
Riding Rails: Thanks! We’re very proud to have both Norbert and Manfred mentioned here. ¶
LoLoCoJr: Torturing Ruby. We should do a Ruby Banter episode on Flog. ¶
Toolman Tim: The new Backpack: a shinier engine but a dull paint job. I agree. Trading developer time for this many server roundtrips is not a good idea. ¶
MySQL-dump: Rubyisms. Interesting observations from a MySQL expert looking at Rails from the database. ¶
Working With Rails: June Rails Hackfest results. Manfred is 7th, Norbert 15th. I think we’re the only Rails development agency with two developers in the top 20. ¶
chris blogs: Announcing test/spec 0.3, a BDD interface for Test::Unit. Better than RSpec because the files go inside test/ where you’d expect them. ¶
Loud Thinking: Why there’s no Rails Inc. David is a very, very, very smart guy. ¶
#rails-contrib and rubyonrails-stacks. The #rails-contrib channel is a great idea. ¶
Data Noise: acts_as_sphinx plugin. Nice search library. ¶
Twitter, Rails, Seaside, Respect. “In the big picture, Twitter did exactly the right thing. They had a good idea and they buckled down and focused on delivering something as cool as possible as fast as possible, and it’s really hard, in early 2007, to beat Rails for that. When all of a sudden there were a few tens of thousands of people using it, then they went to work on the scaling.” ¶
Heresy and turtles (all the way down) with Avi Bryant. The choice between fully stateful (Seaside) and mostly stateless (Rails) depends very much on the kind of web application you’re building. ¶
Working With Rails Weblog – Hackfest Winner Interview: Kevin Clark. “Less. The major accomplishment for 2.0 will be removal of the cruft. I want to see things pluginized, streamlined, and well tested. We went through this huge expansionist phase before the plugin architecture was written, and we need to pull out the things that just don’t belong in every Rails app.” Yes! ¶
You’re not on a fucking plane (and if you are, it doesn’t matter). I think I fucking agree. ¶
Jester: JavaScriptian REST. It’s like ActiveResource, but written in JavaScript. Awesome. (Via Riding Rails.) ¶
Changeset 6485 – Dropped the use of ; as a separator. I think he’s right. ¶
Hackfest Winner Interviews: Manfred Stienstra. 5th place. Yes, we’re proud. ¶
CruiseControl.rb. A very good way to keep your unit tests green in a larger team. ¶
The Camping Episode II. Our own Manfred talks about his HTTP authentication library for Camping and his work on ActiveSupport::MultiByte. ¶
bcrypt-ruby: Secure Password Hashing. For the paranoid. ¶
The Top Five Technologies You Need to Know About in ’07. Rails is #1. ¶
OpenID makes web identities real and appealing. DHH likes it. With code. ¶
The Host with the Most. We had the exact same experience with both TextDrive Shared Hosting and Rails Machine VPS even though we run most of our Rails applications on our own servers. ¶
Adding timezone to your rails app. Quick tutorial for Jamis’ TzTime plugin. ¶
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