Although Radiant may not be as well known among many Rails developers when compared to other Rails based CMS solutions such as Typo or Mephisto. Radiant is a powerful solution that has been steadily growing in popularity over time. Recently there have…
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Peter Cooper on August 28, 2008 :
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EnvyCasts is the latest venture by the presenters of the popular Rails Envy podcast - Jason Seifer and Gregg Pollack. Like PeepCode, EnvyCasts follows a model of offering an instructional video and supporting materials on a single topic for $9 in a…
The official Ruby blog announces that REXML, an XML library that comes with Ruby and is heavily used by many Ruby apps (including RAils), is vulnerable to a specific type of attack that could result in a denial of service. Core…
Exceptional is a new "exception tracking" and exception management application for Rails developers and their apps. It's currently in beta, but if you follow this special link, I'm told that Rails Inside readers will be prioritized in the signup process. It's…
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Peter Cooper on August 17, 2008 :
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David Heinemeier Hansson has announced that thanks to some solid work by Josh Peek over the summer, Rails 2.2 will be "thread safe." This will remove one of the common complaints against Rails from Merb fans and enable Rails to be extremely more…
South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of festivals that take place each year in Austin, TX. Over the past few years, many Rubyists have made it to the event (Twitter's initially popularity storm was brewing at SXSW 2007!) and Ruby…
Clemens Kofler has put together a rather novel "tutorial" for Rails' new internationalization and localization features. Instead of being a typical tutorial on a Web page, the tutorial comes as a Rails app. To get started:
git clone git://github.com/clemens/i18n_demo_app.gitcd i18n_demo_app./script/server
Then…
On my personal blog, I've written How to Install Phusion Passenger / mod_rails / mod_passenger on a cPanel box. Surprisingly I couldn't find any resources on how to do this, and there are a few quirks to look out for.
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From our Rails jobs board comes some amazing sounding jobs this month! I'm almost tempted to emigrate and apply for a few.
The working environments include a gaming startup, a skunkworks at an adult entertainment company, a house in Los Angeles, and the prestigious…
The definitive Rails reference - a gazllion pages long and awesome throughout. A true Rails "bible."
An awesomely illustrated Rails book for beginners - a great way to learn Rails
The 3rd edition of the canonical Rails book from Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails himself.