Archive for December, 2008

Wagn: A Revolutionary Open Source Wiki on Rails

December 17th, 2008 in Miscellaneous

Everyone knows how wikis work by now - but when was the last time you saw a wiki that struck you as advancing the state of the art? Despite scores of implementations, most wikis are similar to the original. But the Wagn project is trying to change this - and using Rails as its infrastructure.
The [...]

13 Rails Practices to Avoid

December 12th, 2008 in Blogosphere

Josh Symonds writes Rails Worst Practices: 13 Coding Nightmares You Should Avoid.

Twitter Gives Back Some Cache to Rails

December 12th, 2008 in Tools

Over the past couple of years Twitter has been something of a poster child for Rails - and not always in a good way. When they were having performance issues, they were exhibit #1 for the "Rails Can't Scale" camp. But the Twitter performance problems seem to be mainly a thing of the past. Now [...]

Rails and Amazon: Libraries and Plugins for EC2, S3, SimpleDB, SQS, FPS and DevPay Integration

December 10th, 2008 in Plugins, Tools

Unless you've been hiding somewhere, you're probably aware that Amazon has built up a comprehensive cloud computing infrastructure featuring a raft of pay-as-you-go services. What you may not know is just how easy it is to integrate most of these services with Rails. Between Rails-specific plugins and Ruby projects, you can quickly take advantage of [...]

3 Plugins for Safer ActiveRecord Deletions

December 6th, 2008 in Plugins

It's a fairly common requirement for Rails applications: allow the user to delete data but provide some sort of safety valve so that it can be restored. After all, users make mistakes, and one mistaken deletion can ruin your whole day. Although ActiveRecord itself doesn't directly address this scenario, Rails developers have the choice of [...]

Passenger 2.0.4 Released: Now With Global Queuing and Background Process Support

December 3rd, 2008 in Deployment, News

It's hard to believe that Phusion's Passenger (sometimes known as mod_rails or mod_rack) is only 8 months old, but it's already become the de facto Rails deployment technology. David Heinemeier Hansson was prescient as ever in April when he declared "This could become very popular, very fast!"
Passenger 2.0.4 has just been released - a point [...]