Ruby on Rails 2.0 have just been released, but I’m sure most of you already knew.

I just wanted to congrat the whole team behind the 2.0 release. Since it’s introduction in 2004, Rails has shown a new path, out of the conventional way; and I’m very glad about that.

I can only contemplate the phenomenal […]

Yesterday I went to the very first edition of Montreal on Rails in the beautiful McGill University.

It’s good to see the community growing but I’ve been told that it’s still quite small in Montreal. Last year, I went to Paris on Rails and the community was already strong. I would have though that Montreal […]

Last year, I wrote an article about How to Introduce Ruby on Rails in Your Company. My objective was to share with you the arguments I exposed to my team members to use Ruby on Rails for the next gen web-based tools in the company.

We had some good and bad times during development. I’d like […]

Espace Visuel Digital is a photo agency specialized in very high-resolution panoramic photos. I designed their website with Ruby on Rails. I initially had a lot of trouble with my installation, but I finally figured out how to solve the issue.

The website is now running quite well since a couple of month so I can […]

I recently had to write and deploy a custom Rails app for a customer. When it was time for me to install the dedicated server, I looked for which Ruby version to install. I naturally went for the latest stable version of Ruby: 1.8.5. Unfortunalety I quickly ran through serious trouble with this version and […]

Paris on Rails is over. The first french official Ruby on Rails conference was held in the IBM building in Paris, La Défense a couple of days ago. There was a lot of people there — 260 attendees — a big success for this first edition.

The conference was aimed to new comers and curious […]

That’s a guess of The Apple Blog, the Apple Store will get rewritten using Ruby on Rails. If it’s true, that will be another big achievement for Rails and it’ll get even more serious attention.

Apple has been using their WebObjects (based on J2EE) technology for some time. WebObjects has not been a success and I […]

I will attend to Paris on Rails, the first official Ruby on Rails conference in France. It will be held in Paris the 17th of November.

I’m quite excited about it because that kind of high-tech conference in France is rare. I hope to meet some French Web 2.0 entrepreneurs and other interesting people. That will […]