Archive for the ‘Blogosphere’ Category

NECO Job

February 27th, 2009 in Blogosphere

The National Events Company has a pretty amazing opportunity available for a resourceful Rails developer. You can either work at their Times Square office in New York or telecommute, but you need to be really, really good.

enum fields in ActiveRecord

February 20th, 2009 in Blogosphere

Mathieu Martin shows off a plugin that lets you use enum fields in ActiveRecord.

Flash Video Tutorial

A "flash video tutorial" showing how to use Rails, ffmpeg, FlowPlayer and attachment_fu together to create an app that you can upload videos to.

Passenger + Apache Upload Progress Bar

Drogomir shows how to get an upload progress bar working in your Rails app using Phusion Passenger and Apache.

Active Rails Documentation Projects

Mike Gunderloy explains what active Rails documentation projects there are and how you can get involved.

Subdomains on Rails explained

Robby Russell presents an explanation of how to do account-referencing using subdomains in Rails.

Rails on track for major upgrades

Infoworld takes a look at how Rails is on track for some major upgrades. Quotes from DHH, Yehuda Katz, and more.

How to set up virtualized Rails environment on Xen

Damien of New Bamboo demonstrates how to set up a virtualized Rails hosting environment with Xen - includes a great script to perform a lot of the steps.

Making Highrise faster with memcached

David Heinemeier Hansson looks at how 37signals has used caching (with memcached) to speed up Highrise.

Krauter: New router for Rails

Jeremy McAnally has released krauter, a new router for Rails. It's described as: Tiny (200 lines fool!), quick (adding routes so fast it hurts and competes with current router otherwise), and agile (OK…it's not more agile. But it sounds cool.)