When Bruce Perens first showed up at the #rubyonrails IRC channel, we were honored by his presence. Bruce is a thought leader on free and open source software and the series editor of Bruce Perens’ Open Source Series from Prentice Hall. He’s also an avid Ruby on Rails convert and asked me to post this endorsement here: In 1981, when...

Geert Bevin gets an A+ for trying, no doubt about that. In an attempt to hold the fort for Java as the troops are deserting left and right, Geert went away for a few months to contemplate and implement Bla-bla List. A more or less functional clone of Ta-da List done in Laszlo and RIFE (a Java web framework). With the introduction of Bla-bla,...

Geert Bevin gets an A+ for trying, no doubt about that. In an attempt to hold the fort for Java as the troops are deserting left and right, Geert went away for a few months to contemplate and implement Bla-bla List. A more or less functional clone of Ta-da List done in Laszlo and RIFE (a Java web framework). With the introduction of Bla-bla,...

Shanti A. Braford is being forced back into PHP after getting jiggy with Ruby on Rails. He’s not liking it one bit: Programming a web application in PHP feels a lot like reinventing the wheel, after having learned Ruby on Rails… Welcome to the world of a Rails developer who has drunk the Kool-Aid but has gone back to the world of...

I tried to warn him, but he wouldn’t listen. Jakob Skjerning, who helped redesign rubyonrails.com and whom I worked with on Daily Rush, has been sucked into the Rails vortex: After having gotten used to RoR for a private project or 2, all the web development stuff I do at work feels ugly, clunky and unproductive, simply because I am not...

Yahoo! Research Labs has a pretty cool new app out making markets out of buzz called Buzz Game. It uses the Yahoo search engine to identify hot topics and assigns a dollar value based on that. When you sign up, you get $10,000 to trade for an can invest as you see please. Now the reason this is terribly interesting is of course that they have a...

You may be afraid, very afraid: Ruby on Rael (That would be IBM’s Sam Ruby on O’Reilly’s Rael Dornfest)

You may be afraid, very afraid: Ruby on Rael (That would be IBM’s Sam Ruby on O’Reilly’s Rael Dornfest)

Keeping up with the flow of ruby-talk can easily become quite a job, so why not have someone do it for you and just bring you the highlights? That’s exactly what Ruby Weekly News is about. Thanks to Tim Sutherland for getting it going.

Keeping up with the flow of ruby-talk can easily become quite a job, so why not have someone do it for you and just bring you the highlights? That’s exactly what Ruby Weekly News is about. Thanks to Tim Sutherland for getting it going.

Stian Grytøyr has managed to do something I’ve been pledging for a long time: Record an updated video for Rails 0.10 using lighttpd and not “cheating” by using scaffolding. Very cool. He builds a small weblog all by hand and even stops to comment on the approach in text throughout. Check it out: Stian’s...

Stian Grytøyr has managed to do something I’ve been pledging for a long time: Record an updated video for Rails 0.10 using lighttpd and not “cheating” by using scaffolding. Very cool. He builds a small weblog all by hand and even stops to comment on the approach in text throughout. Check it out: Stian’s...

TJ Vanderpoel is currently preparing a case study on how he scaled his mortgage processing application with a single lighttpd web server powered by a cluster of FastCGI application servers. All using Ruby on Rails. But as a counterpoint to the latest round of FUD’ing, he posted this preliminary tale about how his company is scaling Rails:...

John McCreesh has published a great new 30+ paged tutorials for getting started with Rails entitled Four Days on Rails. Rails is well documented on-line; in fact, possibly too well documented for beginners, with over 30,000 words of on-line documentation in the format of a reference manual. What’s missing is a roadmap (railmap?) pointing...

Master: “Hmmm. The argument on programmer productivity seems to be lost..” Apprentice: “It’s game over, man. Just game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now?!” Master: “You are mistaken, young one. There is always the ace: claim it can’t scale!” Matt Raible caught the glimpse of a good headline...