Jon Tirsen has taken a closer look at the differences between the threaded scaling approach in J2EE and using Rails with FastCGI. While the former requires object pools, induces thread-safety concerns, and other complications, the FastCGI approach remains dead simple from the application programmers perspective: This means that each process can...

The pursuit of Ajax nirvana with Rails is marching ahead with breath-taking haste. Thomas Fuchs has compiled a demonstration page of all the effects that we’ve added to the package. Web applications are soon going to be hot on the heels of the GUI goodness we’ve grown accustomed to with OS X. But not content to show of the effects,...

The pursuit of Ajax nirvana with Rails is marching ahead with breath-taking haste. Thomas Fuchs has compiled a demonstration page of all the effects that we’ve added to the package. Web applications are soon going to be hot on the heels of the GUI goodness we’ve grown accustomed to with OS X. But not content to show of the effects,...

The pursuit of Ajax nirvana with Rails is marching ahead with breath-taking haste. Thomas Fuchs has compiled a demonstration page of all the effects that we’ve added to the package. Web applications are soon going to be hot on the heels of the GUI goodness we’ve grown accustomed to with OS X. But not content to show of the effects,...

The pursuit of Ajax nirvana with Rails is marching ahead with breath-taking haste. Thomas Fuchs has compiled a demonstration page of all the effects that we’ve added to the package. Web applications are soon going to be hot on the heels of the GUI goodness we’ve grown accustomed to with OS X. But not content to show of the effects,...

Hank Roar is the customer on a project being developed by ThoughtWorker Obie. He’s quite pleased with the progress: Never under estimate the importance of allowing developers to use the tools they love. I don’t personally know Obie well, but I think he feels passionate about Ruby and Rails. This, coupled with the fact that the...

Peter Cooper has just launched Snippets. It’s a paste site that injects the wonderful idea of tagging into the mix. Peter announced it with: Less than two days ago I had an idea. I come across lots of useful snippets of code for the command line, Perl, Ruby, HTML, CSS, whatever, and store them in a big text file. This was hard to...

Congratulations to Scott Barron for pursuing the life of the independent consultant. Especially so, of course, because he’ll be doing it as a Ruby on Rails specialist. We already have a good handful of people following that round with great success. People like Tobias Luekte and Jeremy Kemper are overloaded with requests for work. So...

If form-based authentication is a bad fit for your application, you might consider using good old HTTP authentication. It’s really easy too. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Hero Coders shows you how in Doing HTTP-Auth with Ruby on Rails.

If form-based authentication is a bad fit for your application, you might consider using good old HTTP authentication. It’s really easy too. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Hero Coders shows you how in Doing HTTP-Auth with Ruby on Rails.

Jon Udell discovers Ruby on Rails and shows special affection for Active Record in Separating code from its environment: I’ve only scratched the surface of Ruby, but when I recently started a project that required a Web-based interface to a SQL database, I reached for Ruby on Rails, because I’d heard it’s a great way to...

Jarkko Laine is spreading the good word of Rails all around Finland. He’s doing a guest lecturer about Rails at Tampere University of Technology and he just spotted a nice article about Rails in the Finnish Assemblix newsletter. Keep up the evangelism, Jarkko.

Jarkko Laine is spreading the good word of Rails all around Finland. He’s doing a guest lecturer about Rails at Tampere University of Technology and he just spotted a nice article about Rails in the Finnish Assemblix newsletter. Keep up the evangelism, Jarkko.

Sacha Ebach shows you how to deal with multi-lingual applications in Using Gettext to translate your Rails application. It’s a complete guide talking about what tools you need, the structure you should impose, and what Rails need to instructed to do in order to make your application speak more than just English. Great stuff.

Sacha Ebach shows you how to deal with multi-lingual applications in Using Gettext to translate your Rails application. It’s a complete guide talking about what tools you need, the structure you should impose, and what Rails need to instructed to do in order to make your application speak more than just English. Great stuff.