Rails 3.0: Beta 4 now, RC in days
RailsConf 2010 is underway and what better occasion to do the final stage of the Rails 3 beta program. We’re very pleased to announce Rails 3 beta 4, which we’ll be hammering on and tuning during RailsConf.
At the end of RailsConf, ...
RailsConf 2010 – Baltimore
Here we go again RailsConf 2010 has started. The keynotes will be streamed online at http://railsconf.com and the slides of the presentation will also be posted there. I’ll provide more links once they become available.
This is the view fro...
June 8, 2010: iPhone, iPhone, it’s off to work iPhone
Okay, There’s a New iPhone Don’t really have a whole lot to say beyond what’s already been said. It looks very slick, and if anybody can actually pull off getting people to use video chat, it’s Apple. The form factor of video chat from a phone seems at first glance to be significantly better than...
RailsConf 2010 – Baltimore
Here we go again RailsConf 2010 has started. The keynotes will be streamed online at http://railsconf.com and the slides of the presentation will also be posted there. I’ll provide more links once they become available.
This is the view from my ...
June 7, 2010: Lot of Conferences Week Begins
Today is the RailsConf tutorial day, with the conference proper starting tomorrow. I was less disappointed than I thought I would be when my talks were not accepted, but I’m more disappointed than I thought I would be not to be going. Have fun, everybody. On the other side of the country, today is the...
#217 Multistep Forms
See how to create a multistep (wizard) form from scratch in this episode.
June 4 2010: Okay, here’s a link post
Quick links post: Gregory Brown is looking for comments and donations for a proposal for a Ruby Mendicant University, basically a rolling online Ruby course. Charles Nutter is interviewed by InfoQ on the state of JRuby. Yehuda Katz has a long post on various kinds of extensions in Rails 3 — gems, plugins, generators. This...
June 3, 2010: Get your Kicks on Route resources :user
Routes Geoffrey Grossenbach at Peepcode posted a typically beautiful post/rant about Rails routing. DHH responded in the comments of the article on YCombinator. Grossenbach argues that Routes are unnecessary configuration and offers a couple of options for moving the routing into the controllers, as Sinatra does. DHH responds that GG’s schemes would be challenging for...
PragPub Issue #12, Rails beta now on paper
PragPub Issue #12 now out, Agile Web Development with Rails, 4th Edition now available as beta on paper.
June 2, 2010: How To Test Good
Yesterday… Gave my talk at Chicago Ruby. The video is already online — yay Chicago Ruby team. I was pleased with it, actually, I did pretty much what I hoped to do, except that I thought the repetition joke would get a bigger laugh. In other news Yehuda Katz posted slides on another Rails 3...
June 1, 2010: June, she’ll change her tune
iPad Note I keep wanting to write about the iPad, but so, so many other people are writing about it that I’m not sure I have anything to add. More or less at random, I really liked the brief rant Joe Posnanski added in the middle of an otherwise-unrelated blog post, and Charles Stross’ typically...
