Luke Francl looks at testing SSL in Rails.

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Hyperactive Resource (Github repository) is a extension to ActiveResource that adds a lot of ActiveRecord-esque functionality and finally makes it a reasonably simple task to do a "drop in" replacement for existing ActiveRecord models. It includes dynamic finders, client-side validations, validation…

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Scribd - the world's busiest Rails-powered Web site - is looking for a back-end Rails engineer.

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Outside of thread safety and internationalization support (both of which will be supported in Rails 2.2), one of the most maligned areas for Rails development has been the online documentation.

An effort to improve that situation though was recently posted on…

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37signals shows how they use HAProxy in conjunction with their Rails apps, Apache, and Mongrel. Includes a useful screencast demonstrating HAProxy's load balancing features.

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David Heinemeier Hansson has announced the release of Rails 2.1.1. You can get up and running with:

gem install rails --version 2.1.1 — remember to prefix with sudo, if appropriate!

Rails 2.1.1 is just a maintenance release of Rails 2.1 but, significantly, patches…

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The developer of NeverBlock, Muhammad Ali of eSpace, has written a compelling blog post called Building the Never Blocking Rails, Making Rails 12X Faster where he outlines a number of improvements and changes that can made to Rails to send its…

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