Archive / Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails to be Bundled with Mac OS X Leopard

12 August 2006 / Comments

What an achievement! Only 2 years after Rails started, it is already accepted as a mainstream web technology and Apple will ship it with each releases of Mac OS X Leopard.

Radiant CMS, Managing Web Sites on Rails

21 July 2006 / Comments

Managing the content of a web site is still a painful task, more that 10 years after the web took of. Web site management is an holy grail and Content Management Systems (CMS) have try to fill the gap without much success…

Ruby on Rails 1.1 is out!

29 March 2006 / Comments

Rails 1.1 is finally out, DHH announced it yesterday.

There are a lot of great features in this release and the most expected is certainly RJS. Basically, a Javascript generator that lets the programmer express Javascript statements in Ruby from the server-side. A great example of DSL.

This release also feature bugfixes and ActiveRecord improvements such [...]

How to Introduce Ruby on Rails in Your Company

23 March 2006 / Comments

I’ve been using Ruby on Rails for 6 months now and I find it great at what it does. I used it for personal web projects but soon I realised that it would be of a great value to use it in the company I work for.

I’m in the high-tech wireless gaming business. We [...]

Software Extensibility, the Ruby Way

3 March 2006 / Comments

Over the last couple of years I didn’t pay any attention to the Ruby programming language; you can’t spend your entire life studying programming languages, you have to make choices and get things done.

I worked a lot with Common Lisp and Java and I discovered Ruby when looking at competitive web framework — especially [...]

Discovering Ruby on Rails

19 November 2005 / Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to dig into Ruby on Rails. With all the excitement around this web framework, I though it worth a try. I’ve always been dissapointed with all frameworks on the market and especially Java frameworks — limited, too static and not enough productive. Ruby on Rails takes a different [...]