[ANN] Rails 3.1.0.rc8
Hi everyone,
Rails 3.1.0.rc8 has been released (we've an issue with rc7). This is
the final release candidate. Please give it a try, it's our last
chance to fix regressions and severe issues. We will be releasing
final 3.1.0 next August ...
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......
Sharing the Inheritance Hierarchy
I’ve been working more closely with Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 lately, and while in general it’s been smooth going, there was one particularly disappointing road bump today.
Consider the following code, from a Rails functional test:
...
Limitless Strings for PostgreSQL
We all love ActiveRecord migrations and the sexy DSL for declaring fields. OK, I don't know if you do, but I sure do.
But life isn't perfect (don't get me started), and there's various details that make using the migration DSL a bit of
a pain.
The one...
Limitless Strings for PostgreSQL
We all love ActiveRecord migrations and the sexy DSL for declaring fields. OK, I don't know if you do, but I sure do.
But life isn't perfect (don't get me started), and there's various details that make using the migration DSL a bit of
a pain.
The one...
[ANN] Rails 3.0.8.rc3 (third time is the charm!)
Hey everybody! I've pushed Rails 3.0.8.rc3.
Hopefully this release candidate takes care of all the outstanding issues remaining. To see what has changed between 3.0.8.rc2 and 3.0.8.rc3, check out this link on github.
If no regressions a...
Cucumber Rails 0.4: The De-Web-Step-ining
Consider this part of an occasional series where I attempt to revisit tools discussed in Rails Test Prescriptions that have undergone some revision. (NOTE: Most of this was written before the DHH Twitter-storm about testing this week. For the purposes of this post, I’m choosing to pretend the whole thing didn’t happen.) The cucumber-rails gem...
Cucumber Rails 0.4: The De-Web-Step-ining
Consider this part of an occasional series where I attempt to revisit tools discussed in Rails Test Prescriptions that have undergone some revision. (NOTE: Most of this was written before the DHH Twitter-storm about testing this week. For the purposes of this post, I’m choosing to pretend the whole thing didn’t happen.) The cucumber-rails gem...
Interview: Michael Hartl, author of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (railstutorial.org)
RubyLearning participants talk to Michael Hartl the author of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (railstutorial.org). Satish Talim>> Welcome Michael and thanks for taking out time for RubyLearning. For the benefit of the readers of this blog could you please introduce yourself and tell us what you do for a living? Michael>> Happy to be here....
How Rails Developers do Ajax (with jQuery) in 2011
Wanting to survey what the current state of the art in Rails Ajax development is, I asked this question on twitter:
I got a lot of great responses! 44 last time I checked. Here’s what I found out people are doing:
mustache.j...
It’s Time To Double Up (Using Amazon’s RDS Read Replication Database Servers With Heroku For Master-Slave Replication)
Heroku is great for rapid application development but if you want to run multiple databases it doesn’t provide any options. Running multiple databases in a master-slave orientation can provide an elegant solution to many scaling issues. This can ...
Sass, Heroku, and you.
I like Sass and I like Heroku, but they don’t necessarily like each other. Because of Heroku’s read-only file system and Sass’s tendency to write files to disk, a workaround is needed to get the two to play nicely together. Heroku...
