Two days ago, Phusion (@phusion_nl on Twitter) announced the release of Passenger 2.2.0, a significant update to the dream-come-true Apache module for deploying Rack-based Ruby applications (including Rails, Sinatra, and Ramaze apps). The big deal? It now supports Nginx too. Yes, you can…
Showoff is a new Rails plugin that "provides an easy way to include and show off HTML/ERB/Haml mockups." Creator Adam McCrea has put together a blog post explaining how it works.
Essentially, Showoff provides a way for you to bring mockups into…
No matter how long the recession drags out for, there seems to be no let up at all on the Rails job front - especially if you're near San Francisco or New York (but we have telecommuting positions listed too!). And.. if…
Carlos Brando and José Valim have just released the version 3.0 of Remarkable. If you are crazy for RSpec and use it with Rails, this is a project that you should check out.
Remarkable began as a set of matchers for RSpec, but with this…
Two days ago, Google announced the release of Java support on its App Engine service (a system that allows you to run Web apps on Google's infrastructure). And.. what runs on Java that we care about? JRuby!
It took JRuby guru Ola Bini…
Chad Fowler surveyed his Twitter audience and came up with 20 Rails Development No-No's. It makes for entertaining reading.
In short, people hate:
- Code in views
- Bad tabbing / spacing indentation
- Lack of tests
- Misuse of Single Table Inheritance
- Poor exception handling
- Ruby idioms they don't understand
- Rails idioms…
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Harsh (or Github repository) is "another Rails syntax highlighter" that comes in plugin form and makes it easy to perform syntax highlighting on code in your Rails views. Harsh works in both Erb and Haml views, adopting a rather interesting configuration syntax for…
A few months ago Mike Gunderloy wrote 3 Plugins for Safer ActiveRecord Deletions for Rails Inside and mentioned acts_as_paranoid, a plugin that flags ActiveRecord objects as deleted without actually deleting them (this is useful if you might need to "undo" the…
"Better" Rails documentation efforts aren't anything new but Vladimir Kolesnikov's attempt titled "Rails Searchable API Doc" is notable for its simplicity and smart presentation. He hasn't changed the usual IRB layout except to add a rather Mac-looking search frame to…
The "longer than average release candidate phase" is now over and Rails 2.3.2 (don't ask about the .2) has been released. At least, the gems have been pushed to RubyForge and you can now install it with gem install rails,…
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.