Rails 3.1 HackFest
Have you ever wanted to contribute back to Rails? This is the opportunity you've been looking for. We're organizing a Rails 3.1 Hackfest on the weekend of July 23rd and 24th!!!
GOAL
The goal of this event is to have Rails 3.1 as the most......
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......
Rails and the Enterprise
If you have been in the Rails community for a little while, you have more than likely noticed the love/hate relationship that is entertained by the community vis-à-vis the Enterprise.
Some people hate the enterprise and publicly tell it t...
Ruby Summer of Code
Rails participated in Google’s summer of code program for the first time last year. We got four great projects and three long-term contributors from the effort, including Josh Peek and José Valim, who’ve both joined Rails core, and Em...
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...
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 ......
Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Last Friday, Apple released their new OS version: Snow Leopard.
Upgrading to SL is very easy and even gives you back quite a lot of HD space.
However a few things have changed in the OS and you need to understand what is going...
