Ruby Hero Awards 2011
It’s that time again to take a moment to think about those who have impacted the Ruby community this year but have not received the recognition they deserve. We have given away eighteen awards in the past three years at Railsconf, a......
Conferences for 2011
One of the reasons the Ruby and Rails community is so strong and passionate is because of the awesome regional conferences that happen all around the globe on a yearly basis. Previously on this blog I’ve gone through the list and highli......
Rails for Zombies
This morning my team over at Envy Labs released a free online tutorial called Rails for Zombies. The website combines screencasts with in-browser coding to provide an interactive learning experience teaching the basics of Ruby on Rails.
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Rails Has Great Documentation
To this day I still hear people complain that Rails has poor documentation. From where I’m sitting this seems far from the truth. Let me lay out the evidence piece by piece:
RailsTutorial.org
To learn Rails from scratch Michael ...
Ruby Hero Awards 2010
It’s that time again to take a moment to think about those people who have impacted Ruby community but have not received the recognition they deserve. We have given away twelve awards in the past two years at Railsconf, and this yea......
Ruby and Rails Conferences 2010
There are an incredible amount of Ruby & Rails conferences coming up in the next 6 months. See below to find one in your neck of the woods.
March 11-12 – MountainWest RubyConf in Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Cost: 100 USD
March 12...
Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 Released
Rails 2.3.5 was released over the weekend which provides several bug-fixes and one security fix. It should be fully compatible with all prior 2.3.x releases and can be easily upgraded to with “gem update rails”. The most interesting b...
Community Highlights
I’m always impressed by the continuous flow of innovation from the Rails community. Below are just a few of the highlights from the past month. These stories all came from the Ruby5 Podcast, which covers all the news from the Ruby...
A Month in Rails
Lots of great content coming out of the community in the past month. Below you’ll find some of the most useful tutorials and libraries I’ve found over the past few weeks. These stories came directly from the Ruby5 podcast, which ......
Community Highlights: Yehuda Katz
Over the past few months, Rails core team member Yehuda Katz has posted a series of great blog articles describing some of the process and technique he’s used while coding Rails 3 with Carl Lerche. In case you haven’t followed his...
Remaining Ruby & Rails Conferences in 09
The Ruby and Rails community is still growing strong and the sheer number of conferences coming up is proof of that. Below I’ve put together a list of all the conferences/events I could find before 2010 so you can hopefully make it...
Community Highlights: Rails Prescriptions
Doing Test Driven Development (TDD) effectively is not something that comes easy, even when you’re working with a well structured Rails application. Up until March of this year there really was no guide I could recommend for developers ...
