Aug 30, 2010: Rails 3 has landed
Top Story As you probably know, both Rails 3 and Bundler went final over the weekend. The Rails 3 release notes are up, as well as extensive coverage on the Rails Guides page. I’ll also mention Jeremy McAnally’s Rails 3 Upgrade handbookhttp, and Gregg Pollack’s list of great Rails 3 documentation sources. And, just for...
#229 Polling for Changes
If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery.
Rails 3.0 Released (And 22 Free Videos To Bring You Up To Speed)
Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare it’s finally here. We’ve brought the work of more than 1,600 contributors together to make everything better, faster, cleaner, and more beautiful.
David Heinemeier Hansson
Building an Object Mapper: Override-able Accessors
In which I explain how to make your attribute accessors override-able from scratch or by using ActiveModel.
Rails 3.0: It’s ready!
Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare it’s finally here. We’ve brought the work of more than 1,600 contributors together to make everything better, faster, cleaner, and mo...
EuRuKo 2010: Summaries, Videos, and Photos from Europe’s Ruby Conference
EuRuKo is the brand of Europe's principal Ruby conference series and EuRuKo 2010 took place in late May. Why, then, am I posting about it in August? First, I'm a strong supporter of EuRuKo and promised to post a roundup of the event here. Secondly, it turns out it took a while for the...
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 ...
Aug 27, 2010: Seek and You Shall Find
I always feel a little bad for the people who come to this site via search. There aren’t very many of them, mind you, but it always feels like they are destined to be disappointed if they are coming here to actually get information. In that sprit, I’m going to respond to some of the...
August 26, 2010: Some New Stuff
Book Status RSpec chapter draft handed in to edit. It’s going to need a better conclusion. A lot changed in this one, relative to the Lulu version — this is probably the chapter most affected by my own personal experience since it’s original version. Links Haven’t done a link set in a while, this is...
Pragmatic Guide series: Pragmatic Guide to Git
New Pragmatic Guide series: Pragmatic Guide to Git now in beta
