Xavier Defrang has been following the heated arguments about Rails for some time and got fed up with a bunch of “...bogus statements (FUD?) and issues raised in the TSS discussion”. So he went ahead with a summary of the claims and why he believed them to be without merit. I particularly like the code snippet for putting the...

Xavier Defrang has been following the heated arguments about Rails for some time and got fed up with a bunch of “...bogus statements (FUD?) and issues raised in the TSS discussion”. So he went ahead with a summary of the claims and why he believed them to be without merit. I particularly like the code snippet for putting the...

The rise of small outfits building big things on constrained budgets is the theme of a Reuters story carried by Yahoo! News. It includes a quote by Tim O’Reilly and talks among others about Odeo. And of particular interest on these parts about their use of Ruby on Rails: Evan Williams, who helped create Blogger software and later sold it...

Rob Harwood spotted this very interesting trend from Alexa describing the rise of Ruby reach as Rails enters the scene: Harwood interprets the correlation: Forget the hype over Rails—not important. Forget the anti-hype too—irrelevant. Instead, just look at this graph from Alexa.com. See any correlation? Rails is a killer app,...

Kudos to Justin Gehtland for landing Rails its 3rd Slashdotting with his level-headed article comparing Java/JSTL/Spring/Hibernate/MySQL stack application to the somewhat equivalent in Rails.

Kudos to Justin Gehtland for landing Rails its 3rd Slashdotting with his level-headed article comparing Java/JSTL/Spring/Hibernate/MySQL stack application to the somewhat equivalent in Rails.

Justin Gehtland is back with numbers to back up his original claim that “Rails is actually faster” for his application than the Java/Spring/Hibernate/JSTL stack powered version was. Through various benchmarks, he has found Rails to be roughly 15-30% faster than the old Java version. Interestingly enough, it seemed that Rails...

Josh C from the Eggplant Coop sent me the funniest switcher quote I’ve seen in a while: We compare moving to rails from our in-house perl web framework to the scene in “Clerks” where Randall goes to the good video store ;) Ha!

If you’re deep into all the RFCs on email, we’d like your help ensuring that the latest approach to encoding with Action Mailer is sound. We’re going for an approach where encoding to subjects and headers are only applied if necessary. Please do have a look at ticket #955.

If you’re deep into all the RFCs on email, we’d like your help ensuring that the latest approach to encoding with Action Mailer is sound. We’re going for an approach where encoding to subjects and headers are only applied if necessary. Please do have a look at ticket #955.

Under the session title of Cheap, Fast, and Good: You can have it all with Ruby on Rails, Brian McCallister will be presented at ApacheCon Europe 2005. The session will run for 60 minutes and features this abstract: Ruby on Rails is a new web application framework which provides tools for everything from object/relational mapping to...

The Ajax wave is sweeping across Rails. In this release, we’ve added a :position option to both link_to_remote and form_remote_tag that can be set to either :before, :top, :bottom, or :after. These options make it possible to add new DOM elements to existing lists without replacing the whole list. When working on big lists that are in a...

The Ajax wave is sweeping across Rails. In this release, we’ve added a :position option to both link_to_remote and form_remote_tag that can be set to either :before, :top, :bottom, or :after. These options make it possible to add new DOM elements to existing lists without replacing the whole list. When working on big lists that are in a...

eXtreme Programming and Ruby on Rails is a wonderful fit. Besides the most excellent support for test-driven development, XP works a whole lot better when your code base is so small that breakthroughs in knowledge about the domain can be executed in as few refactorings as possible. But if you want to get into XP, you naturally also have to get...

eXtreme Programming and Ruby on Rails is a wonderful fit. Besides the most excellent support for test-driven development, XP works a whole lot better when your code base is so small that breakthroughs in knowledge about the domain can be executed in as few refactorings as possible. But if you want to get into XP, you naturally also have to get...