Category Archives: Rails

9 Things that DHH likes about Rails 2.0

Breakpoints are back. Wait, actually there’s a real debugger in there?! HTTP Performance has improved. Any JavaScript and CSS that uses the *_include_tag with :cache => true will be bundled and gzipped up, so the browser will make less connections … Continue reading

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DHHNote 2007

DHH is reviewing the State of the Ruby on Rails Union: 1 million downloads of the Rails gem hundreds of plugins (at least 600…I wonder how many generators) 10,000 people in rubyonrails-talk Google group (and several hundred in the IRC … Continue reading

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RailsConf is huge

We’ve got 1600 people attending this years RailsConf (as opposed to around 400 last year.) This sort of reminds me of when Eclipse got popular and the growth between the first and second EclipseCon. Alright so Chad is up on … Continue reading

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Streamlined at RailsConf

My tutorials day turned into a Streamlined day. After going to most of the JRuby presentation, I ducked out to pair program some last minute Streamlined improvements with Justin Gehtland. Matthew Bass was with us too working on Streamlined to … Continue reading

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I’m at RailsConf 2007

I’m at RailsConf 2007 in Portland, OR – its tutorial day. I’ve been really busy with consulting lately so haven’t done much blogging. But I usually am good at blogging while at a conference. :) Sitting in the “Your First … Continue reading

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Tip: Monitor your website and your Rails apps

You probably want to make sure your websites are up, especially your personal and corporate site. Of course you want all your Rails apps to be up all the time as well. It is a 24-7 world we live in … Continue reading

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The best way to understand continuations

I was reading up about Procs due to an interesting error in some code: warning: tried to create Proc object without a block So I picked up my copy (and got a nice little workout in the process) of The … Continue reading

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NOVARUG Meeting next Wednesday – March 21st

I’ve been away at Advanced Rails Studio most of this past week. I just confirmed the next NOVARUG (that’s the NOrthern VirginiA Ruby Users Group for the uninitiated and yes you will have to go through the initiation ceremony – … Continue reading

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Quick and Clean Rails Code by Chad Fowler – a summary

The last NOVARUG meeting was great. I have been insanely busy since then, but felt remiss not posting anything about it. So here’s a short summary with more details to come as I get time. Chad gave a great presentation … Continue reading

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“Quick and Clean” NOVA RUG meeting tonight with Chad Fowler!

I’ve been so heads down in RoR development that I’ve been remiss in my blogging… But the February NOVA Ruby Users Group meeting is tonight! Chad Fowler is our guest speaker and here’s what he’ll be talking about: Rails is … Continue reading

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