Just spotted this mighty brief posting for a Rails position in Columbus, Ohio on craigslist and thought I’d pass it along. It’s never been a better time to jump on something fresh and expect to actually find work doing it. We have a wide array of independent consultants working exclusively in Rails already and more are joining all...

Just spotted this mighty brief posting for a Rails position in Columbus, Ohio on craigslist and thought I’d pass it along. It’s never been a better time to jump on something fresh and expect to actually find work doing it. We have a wide array of independent consultants working exclusively in Rails already and more are joining all...

Robby Russell has announced his authorship of an upcoming book that’ll provide “... an in-depth look at RoR, how it works inside and out”. The book is to be published by O’Reilly. This will then be their second Rails book (they’re already doing a Developer’s Notebook) and the fifth book in total announced for...

Robby Russell has announced his authorship of an upcoming book that’ll provide “... an in-depth look at RoR, how it works inside and out”. The book is to be published by O’Reilly. This will then be their second Rails book (they’re already doing a Developer’s Notebook) and the fifth book in total announced for...

There’s nothing like pushing a new major update in order to find bugs in the code when its exposed to a couple of hundred working applications. Thankfully the fixes were almost as swift as the reports. In any case, you’ll definitely want to upgrade to 0.12.1 right away. There’s a good handful of fixes for both Action Pack and...

There’s nothing like pushing a new major update in order to find bugs in the code when its exposed to a couple of hundred working applications. Thankfully the fixes were almost as swift as the reports. In any case, you’ll definitely want to upgrade to 0.12.1 right away. There’s a good handful of fixes for both Action Pack and...

The time had come to butcher the piggy-back query and introduce real association loading through outer joins. Behold, the glorious eager loading of associations that makes it silly easy to fetch not 1, 2, but unlimited associations alongside any record in a single query. Turning 50 database queries into 1 never felt this good. # Turning N+1...

The time had come to butcher the piggy-back query and introduce real association loading through outer joins. Behold, the glorious eager loading of associations that makes it silly easy to fetch not 1, 2, but unlimited associations alongside any record in a single query. Turning 50 database queries into 1 never felt this good. # Turning N+1...

Since Rails is supposedly this über-productive bag of lightning bolts, you should be able to accomplish great things within a single clip of 24 hours, right? That’s the assumption Rails Day is setting out to prove. A competition to build something meaningful, cool, neat, and/or beautiful that’ll be judged by a panel of experts...

Since Rails is supposedly this über-productive bag of lightning bolts, you should be able to accomplish great things within a single clip of 24 hours, right? That’s the assumption Rails Day is setting out to prove. A competition to build something meaningful, cool, neat, and/or beautiful that’ll be judged by a panel of experts...

Lucas Carlson talks about how Portland is turning into a power zone for Rails development and how great his presentation there went last night: Last night I gave a presentation about Rails to what was supposed to be the local Perl mongers and Ruby group. Usually, between 6-10 people show up to either meeting, so I was expecting 20-25 people...

RForum is one of the earliest open source applications based on Rails, but it has only just reached a state where the authors Andreas Schwarz and Alexey Verkhovsky were willing to share with the world. Hence, the release of RForum 0.1. Congratulations on the release. With the project out in the open, we’ll hopefully more rapid improvement...

RForum is one of the earliest open source applications based on Rails, but it has only just reached a state where the authors Andreas Schwarz and Alexey Verkhovsky were willing to share with the world. Hence, the release of RForum 0.1. Congratulations on the release. With the project out in the open, we’ll hopefully more rapid improvement...

Alexey Verkhovsky has completed the transition of Instiki to a Rails-based core that uses the latest versions of all the framework instead of the ‘03 dialects it was currently running. Instiki is still powered by Madeleine, though. Which means that it’ll be some time yet before you can run Instiki on Apache or lighttpd directly as a...

Alexey Verkhovsky has completed the transition of Instiki to a Rails-based core that uses the latest versions of all the framework instead of the ‘03 dialects it was currently running. Instiki is still powered by Madeleine, though. Which means that it’ll be some time yet before you can run Instiki on Apache or lighttpd directly as a...