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Mike Gunderloy on December 12, 2008 :
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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…
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…
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Mike Gunderloy on December 6, 2008 :
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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…
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Peter Cooper on December 3, 2008 :
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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…
Anyone who got into Rails a few years ago should remember a very popular "building a weblog in 15 minutes video" by David Heinemeier Hansson. It was potentially responsible for most of Rails' ongoing success as the video demonstrated all…
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Mike Gunderloy on November 26, 2008 :
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A surprising number of applications seem to involve storing a tree of similar items out to some arbitrary depth: managers and employees, assemblies and parts, categories for organizing things. Rails doesn't have any native ability to handle a tree structure…
Do you need to use Microsoft's SQL Server as the database system for your Rails application (or, would you like to)? A group of developers (Ken Collins, Murray Steele, Shawn Balestracci, Joe Rafaniello, and Tom Ward) have developed the Rails SQL…
Yes folks, Rails 2.2 is here! Coming just six months after Rails 2.1, Rails 2.2 is still definitely the most exciting Rails release yet - you get internationalization, Ruby 1.9 support, thread safety, connection pooling, and a lot more. The number…
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Mike Gunderloy on November 21, 2008 :
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Last year we looked at using ruby-prof to gather profiling data for a Rails application. But it's worth revisiting the subject now that ruby-prof 0.7.0 is out: gathering profile test data for a Rails application is almost absurdly easy now.
As detailed by…
Java-heads will be familiar with JBoss, a popular Java EE-based application server. Bob McWhirter has been working on a plugin to make it easy to deploy Rails applications to a JBoss app server - something that could be quite appealing…
