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An Introduction to Refinery CMS – A Rails Content Management System

Refinery CMS is an open source Ruby on Rails CMS for small businesses. The project was originally closed source for 4 years at Resolve Digital until it was finally released to the open source community in mid 2009. Refinery focuses on doing things…

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The Perils Of Opinionated Software (like Rails)

This is a guest opinion piece by Xavier Shay.

Ruby on Rails, by its own admission, is an opinionated framework. From day one it has positioned itself as the Kryptonite to enterprise software, providing an easy to use, rapid development framework.…

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Netzke: Rich Internet Apps with Ext JS and Rails

Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications. It provides an extended set of powerful, feature-rich widgets that can be used as building blocks for AJAX-driven GUI of almost unlimited complexity. Netzke is a framework that provides a unified…

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HOWTO: Unobtrusive JavaScript with Rails 3

This post is by Rizwan Reza. See footer for more info.

One of the big surprises and accomplishments is the fact that Unobtrusive Javascript made it into Rails 3. At first, we thought UJS wasn’t going to be included in Rails 3. Well,…

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Baltimore Welcomes RailsConf With Open Arms

Baltimore's Rails community has been eagerly anticipating RailsConf next month. They've organized a few different projects to welcome Rails programmers to the city:

Ignite RailsConf: an unofficial pre-party held on June 6th with a variety of lightning talks, featuring Ruby luminaries like Chris…

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Learning To Scale Rails With Crappy Programming Book Covers

Jason Seifer (of RailsEnvy / Ruby Show fame) and I were recently captivated by a particularly gorgeous technical book cover:

Awesome, right? Eric Hodel (of RDoc and RubyGems fame) thought he had a better candidate for crappiest programming book cover:

I'm not…

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Gorgeous Blonde (Who's Not DHH) Takes Over Official Rails Sites

Just a year after RubyOnRails.org was "derailed by [a] hacker", a gorgeous woman has taken over all of the various rubyonrails.org sites (to which rubyonrails.com forwards, too) including the API documentation and official Rails weblog.

In 2009, the issue was down to…

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Remail: Send and Receive E-mail Through Google App Engine for Free

Sending e-mail from Rails applications is a common activity, but not all application servers are running a reliable SMTP daemon.. and setting up a server to receive e-mails is a real pain. A common solution is to use GMail, but…

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How a Realtime SMS Questions Service Scaled To Super Bowl Traffic with Rails

When the UK-based Rails team at kgb was given ten weeks to scale their SMS question-answering "microwork" service for a Super Bowl ad, they didn't have much headroom left for more traditional Web scaling approaches. In this article, KGB developer J.…

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Radiant CMS Trying "Open Source Design" – Help Needed!

Radiant CMS (previously on Rails Inside) is a mature, "no-fluff", open source content management system (CMS) built on top of Rails. In this post, developer John W Long is putting out the call for anyone with Web design expertise to get involved…

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