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I killed Mephisto. Screw Rails’s inability to perform on shared hosts, and screw using a system that no-one has updated in any real way in years.

My most popular post is Test Driven Development with ASP.Net and the Model View Presenter Pattern, which is a bit ironic because I've even put up a warning message on that post pushing people to look at MonoRail or the MVC framework instead of the MVP pattern for web development. A couple months after that I read the Pragmatic Programmer's book on Ruby on Rails and I've hated that ASP.NET post ever since. If I had to pick my favorite post, I'd go with My Programming Manifesto.

Here are my various notes from the RailsConf sessions. You’ll have to excuse me as they aren’t the best notes in the world :-) Most are incoherent and I typed them quickly. If you want I also put them all in a PDF for download.

I love RIA technologies and Ruby on Rails. I always think combination of the these two could be greatest system framework. I’m glad Adobe recognizes that too, so do a few great guys. Here are the examples:

This is another example of collaboration between Flex and Ruby on Rails, which is my favorite web solution. It’s written by Rowan Hick.

Last month a bunch of us were sent by Vonage to RailsConf 2007. I did a talk (with my co-worker Stephen Becker) on working with legacy systems, and the approach we have been talking to using rails (and other technologies) to eat away at the problem (I’ve since nick named this approach the “Evaporative Model of Legacy System Maintenance”).

The beauty of a control library like this is that as you become more and more familiar with it, you’re not locking yourself into a specific framework. The YUI Library will work with static HTML files, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET and (you guessed it) MonoRail. Why wouldn’t you give this library a look?

In this blog, I’ll write about my experiences and interests. I’ll write about CSS and web design, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and much more.

If you are Ruby on Rails developers (if not, try be one), you might be using RadRails IDE for your rails application development (if not, try it). Just you know, RadRails is Eclipes based IDE, as many others. Now, RadRails become classic. The AJAX IDE opensource tool Aptana integrated the RadRails.

My first talk was a 4 hour “Introduction to Ruby on Rails”. It had a decent turnout, and was a lot of fun to give. Thanks to a IM chat with Harish the night before the talk, I gave the best line I’ve given so far in a talk (IMHO): “So, what type of web application would you like to build today?”

Displaying flash messages in the layout can be a pain at times. In this episode you will learn an easy way to display any kind of flash message by looping through the hash.

O Rails permite que você particione diferentes áreas do sistema, agrupando os controllers em subdiretórios.

Therefore, for all of the following definitions, I have placed the JavaScript that the method generates after the Ruby code. The Ruby code is marked with the comment # Ruby code, and the JavaScript is marked with // Generated JavaScript.

Después he instalado Ruby On Rails (RoR) para aprender un poco. Es bastante sencilla su instalación con las RubyGems.

Are you accepting sensitive user data? Passwords, credit card numbers, etc. By default, Rails stores all submitted parameters in plain text in the logs. This episode will show you how to filter this sensitive input so it doesn’t show up in the log file.

When I started programming Ruby on Rails applications, I was afraid I would be up against a similar beast. Was I wrong or what!!! Here is how you do it in RoR.

Eyal and Benjamin gave us a nice internal demo today of their explorer for SIOC forums. It’s written using Ruby on Rails and their ActiveRDF / SWORD Semantic Web application framework for Rails. From the SIOC explorer page:

Since my main geographically related projects are both now based on plugins that I’m pretty happy with and which suit them well, I decided to resuscitate an old sample piece. A few months back I wrote about scraping the Grand Rapids bus routes site and put up a toy application utilising the resource features in then-edge Rails. I’ve been meaning to return to that project to test out some features in ActiveResource, but in the meantime it seemed like it might be useful to be able to search for the nearest bus stop.

But I want do write all of this quickly, so will use Ruby on Rails instead of Java. I thought about finding out how to access Java from RoR but realised that I might as well keep Richard’s code in its own Java web app and call it using HTTP from the Ruby web app.

Wednesday is Refresh Houston/Ruby on Rails User Group Meetup. Find out more or RSVP here: http://upcoming.org/event/156351/

What is the first model you would create when developing a Ruby on Rails based web service? Mostly likely you would create a user model so as to authenticate users and grant them certain business specific privileges. Creating the required table, model, and views for a user is so common that there exists a great Rails plugin for the task. Acts as Authenticated is a plugin generator that will create your base user model and views required for a user-centric web application. Just like previous plugins, you need download and install the plugin by using the ’script/plugin install URL’ command where you replace URL with the following.

My shortlist for moving from Dreamhost to a more reliable and configurable Rails host was:

After a brief spell writing a Ruby on Rails app last summer I always meant to do more stuff with it, but somehow I never got around to it. I was hoping this talk would re-ignite my enthusiasm and give me some good pointers.

ok… saying the title is even longer than typing the command:

svnrails --url ./repos/my_app/trunk my_app

this will make sure you have a functional empty rails application in your local repository that is it will:

 

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Read more from this blogger: Easy creation of a Rails application in Subversion

Das Web-Framework Ruby On Rails (auch als Rails oder RoR bezeichnet) wurde in Version 1.2.1 freigegeben. Neu in dieser Version ist die Unterstützung für REST und HTTP-Status Codes. Download

I’ve been moping about this week about Ruby… I haven’t done it in about 4-5 months since being back in PHP-Land? I’m having withdrawals. It all started after I read this article Technologies of the Year 2006 (BTW -I have done all of them!). I was thinking ..awwww… Rails…. and I picked up my Rails book at work that I look at when I am fed up with PHP, just to cheer me up a bit. I skipped the last Ruby meeting, at the last minute the buddies that I thought would go with me backed out.. and.. well.. I was pretty tired and the topic of “Environments” made me think it would be a mac-love fest. I used to want a mac laptop, but… I’ve decided to stick with the PC environment since I am happiest in Ubuntu.

HostICan has updated its web hosting plans this new year. First and foremost they have added PHP5 and Ruby on Rails support to their hosting accounts. Also, they have implemented FastCGI.

There was a lot of discussion about the Joel’s post Ruby Performance Revisited. I guess this was just a flamebait, but I’ll bite. Here’s the relevant quote (bold emphasis mine):

Prototype is the Ruby-like Javascript library that is best known as a part of the Ruby on Rails infrastructure. I was going to write about how awesome it is, but instead, I’m just going to link you the appropriate resources. If this is for you, then you’ll recognize the awesome. If not, then not.

This will be a lenghty post because this is a subject I’m bothering with for a longer time. The reason I’m writing it now is a comment I got from James McGovern to my post about the book “The Definitive Guide To Grails”. James has spend some time in investigating the security model of enterprise content management (ECM) systems. He asked me about the security model of Ruby On Rails (RoR) and how this security model is better than in J2EE.

After open sourcing the Java platform and the great news about Java 7 like upcoming closures support I think Java’s future is secured and more interesting than ever before. Groovy and Grails are also two very nice additions to the Java platform regaining some of the lost terrain from Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Exciting times for the Java community!

And that is how it all began. I recently discovered that Dreamhost has full Ruby On Rails support and I’m working learning this unique development environment/framework. As easy as I’ve said it is to develop applications, it is a bit of a challenge to understand the concepts at times. I’m not used to dealing with a “framework” per-se but I’m up for a good challenge!

SwS stresses ease of development by separating model, view and controller and by presenting simple semantics for common tasks as well as "the right thing by default." SwS code for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) tasks should be as compact (or more compact) and as readable as similar Ruby on Rails code. On the other hand, SwS will support significantly richer state management than RoR. Pages will be composed of many long-lived controller/view objects which maintain state in Monads. Each controller may receive input from user-actions or external actions and may mark its associated view as dirty. Dirty views are sent back to the browser as (1) part of a page reload, (2) as a change "push" responding to an AJAX request or (3) forcing a Comet event. The controllers will be Scala Actors such that they may be hundreds or thousands of live controllers in the system at any one time. Associating code blocks with web links and form elements, SwS allows a very granular HTTP request routing.

开始关注基于Ruby on Rails框架的办公自动化系统的实现。

itsdEx is the world’s first social trading site where you can trade anything. People buy and sell itsdEx shares in their favorite websites. Something gets more popular? The price goes up. Less popular? You got it, it tanks. itsdEx is built with Ruby on Rails, includes a Firefox and Flock toolbar, built in blog, profiles, itsdEx cash bonuses for referring others, and much more.

Aquí la novedad ya que alguien se ha dedicado a crear los ficheros para importar los templates a Radrails. Incluye 199 de ruby y 48 rhtml.

When I started out with Rails, I was using Notepad++ and it served my needs fine. Recently, I made the switch to the excellent RadRails IDE. I’m still learning my way around this Eclipse based tool, but overall I’m very impressed. I just discovered another excellent Ruby on Rails blog - Dr Nic. In his latest post, he has put together a config file for using “snippets” within RadRails. I’ve read lots of praise for the defacto ROR editor on the Mac, TextMate, and one of its best features is snippets. Well, now ROR developers on Windows have snippets too. Great stuff!

I have been alternating, back and forth, between my MacBook Pro and a Windows XP notebook for development, depending on where I’m at. This has been relatively easy through the use of Subversion, however, I keep running into a consistent problem when using Rails and PostgreSQL together:

And, they’ve got Ruby on Rail container! You can install you own Gems and manage you own RoR instance. The container will increase size automatically if your application grows larger.

I’m picking up Ruby and Rails. PHP/MySQL is so, like, college, dude. So far it’s pretty fun. The whole ethic of it all is great: everything should be as easy as possible! Infinite configurability is fine but let’s have aggressive, sensible defaults because you don’t need to reinvent the wheel every time! Use your programming brainpower on the programming part not all the run-up stuff!

Just download and go…..no install required….RadRails is a sweet IDE for Ruby on Rails.

A ako posledné si ukážeme, ako to všetko použiť v Ruby on Rails.

I keep hearing about REST and RESTful stuff in Rails, but I don’t really understand. Is it about serving different types of content (HTML, RSS, XML) depending on the device that’s requesting the data?

FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic with closures and lambdas and Rails-like active records that can be compiled down to VBScript, JavaScript, PHP4 or PHP5. Wasabi is a private, in-house language written by one of our best developers that is optimized specifically for developing FogBugz; the Wasabi compiler itself is written in C#.

Joel Spolsky has a post today titled Language Wars where he makes some statements about selecting a platform for web development. He says the standard things you've heard a dozen times before and makes the (very) reasonable case for selecting a mainstream platform (basically Java or .Net and maybe PHP or even Python) for your enterprise development. He did take some shots at Ruby on Rails which provoked this from DHH the creator of Rails: Fear, Uncertain, and Doubt by Joel Spolsky.

Here's a sample Ruby on Rails application running on EC2 along with some background information from its creator.

What if instead of the classic scenario of a small group of founding programmers starting up a company, and then looking for money, the investors themselves get into the game directly? The costs of bootstrapping a web company have been drastically reduced – to the point where almost any cash strapped student can do it nowadays. This is of course based on cheap hardware and web hosting hosting, simplified programming languages and tools like Ruby on Rails and most importantly the maturing market where 55% of the US has broadband access and more and more people are figuring it out what to do with it.

I’ve just started new project in rails, and this time got sick trying to recollect what I need to do in order to setup svn:ignores. This is no special task, but I do it not so often to remember it. Best would be write nice script or rake task.

When you use XMLHttpRequest to fetch or send data, you create methods or functions to act as callbacks. At some point the callbacks are run, and data magically appears into your classes. That feels a lot like threading to me, the fact it’s asynchronous. I remember reading Thomas Fuchs saying something about JavaScript being single-threaded, a quick search found the comment: [Rails-spinoffs] Ajax.Request synchronization (onSuccess beforeonComplete?).

I mentioned in my last post that the thing I learned the most from at BarCampRDU was leading a session. The session was simply titled Intro to Ruby on Rails. Here’s the thing, and I think Ryan Daigle summed it up nicely: leading a session is different than giving a presentation. I chose to give a presentation and would have been better off leading a session.

I use low-cost (but full-featured) hosting accounts for storing media files. I found an exceptional deal… The company is called Blue Host (link is a coupon code for free setup). They provide 15GB of storage space and 400 GB of monthly transfer. They support Ruby on Rails, PHP 5, plus (and this is the big deal) you can have SSH access. I also looked into GoDaddy’s web hosting which is slightly better if you just want disk space and bandwidth.

Today I set out to develop a simple proof of concept: a Wiki developed in Ruby on Rails using Subversion as a repository.

Ruby on Rails es un entorno de programación para aplicaciones web que ha revolucionado la manera de desarrollar, gracias a las facilidades que ofrece a los programadores.

IBM has released a DB2 adapter for Ruby on Rails. it is now possible to write Ruby on Rails applications for a DB2 database.

Topics will include Flash Media Server, with FlashCommGuru Stefan Richter, and Ruby On Rails for the Flex Developer, with Stuart Eccles. Both of which are fantastic topics to start with and I'm sure of interest to you as a Flash Developer!

That’s roughly how long I spent bashing my head against a seemingly impenetrable brick wall trying to get a Rails app to work properly on my server.

I was directed there from a link in this article describing in detail how one person got Capistrano working at Dreamhost. It directed me to a section about the svn:externals property, which I’d been meaning to read for a while. So I did. It helped me get Ruby on Rails 1.1.2 set up as an external for a project I’m working on, and it’s actually extremely easy to do. I’ll step through that, though it’s kind of trivial (and not quite related to the point of this post). For those of you who can’t think for themselves, this can be easily modified to use trunk (or any release) instead of v1.1.2.

I’m starting to enjoy programming again, no thanks to Microsoft. Ive recently dug into Ruby and the Rails framework for building web applications. Things just make sense. I have decided to use Ruby on Rails for two of my current projects. One is GoalExec and the other is a tool for folks in construction. More to come on the latter of those projects as details are hashed out.

Dave Child has posted a number of Web development related cheat sheets in .pdf and .png format on his blog. These include CSS, xHTML, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, and MySQL.

build_form is a lackluster attempt at emulating the scaffolding feature in Ruby on Rails—but just like with Rails, the main purpose of this function is for quick data entry—not actual production use.

Martin Fowler wrote a piece on Ruby today called EvaluatingRuby. I've been researching Ruby and Ruby on Rails pretty heavily the last couple of months and I'm impressed. Now that I've gotten a new StructureMap release out of the way, I'm diving into a new Ruby on Rails/AJAX project on the side just to start learning.

Use this script to remove sessions more than a day old. You may add it to cron to automate.

The whole idea of Rails is to approach the world of web application development in a pre-emptive fashion. Allow yourself to be clueless. Let the philosophy of Rails be your guide. Relax, take a deep breath, and take that plunge that’s going to change your life forever. Admit to yourself that, when it comes to the radical new way of doing things, you pretty much don’t know anything. By taking this huge step backward, you’ll be opening up the vista that’ll take you farther than you could ever imagine possible.

For those that have played with Instant Rails in the past, and thought the cookbook demo app was a bit naff, download the new version of instant rails and you'll get the typo blog app - a much better real world app to explore. You can then pull the app into RadRails - a free Rails IDE. I've had some installation issues with RadRails - but it's pretty cool.

Now I know why all the fuss about Ruby and Rails. Ruby is a dynamic object-oriented scripting language and Rails contains the activerecord gem that adheres to Martin Fowler's ActiveRecord pattern.

Espero que se divirtam tanto com ele como eu durante o desenvolvimento do dito cujo e me perdoem alguma burradinha que porventura apareça. ;-)” A nota foi enviada por Eustáquio "TaQ" Rangel (eustaquiorangelΘyahoo·com), que acrescentou este link da fonte para maiores detalhes.

Ruby on Rails is the killer app that is propelling the Ruby language into the spotlight. It is a web application framework that takes the HTTP request/response model that we've all become familiar with and simplifies it to a point most people didn't think was possible.

When a database like Oracle decides to write an article on Ruby on Rails, one may think it is time to take a closer look at Ruby on Rails.

I’m already working in the port of my photography site Temujin Photo to Ruby On Rails, nowadays its just plain HTML. The design will remain the same, the idea is to add a bit more of flexibility on the server side, implement the current external services (stuff like the newsletter and the guestbook) and do a couple of other things; all of this while exploring a new web framework.

ruby está nos trilhos. Só que o trem também.

So I seem to create new rails apps often enough, whether for a new client, to demonstrate a particular feature, or just to try something out in a clean environment. And I always use Subversion to keep my source code (heck, I even keep my home directory in an svn repository!). So I’ve created a script which will setup the repository layout, add in rails, capistrano & exception_notification, configure a few bits, ignore all the generated content, fix any stray shebang lines and create the appropriate databases. Just in case it’s useful to any anybody else, you can grab it here: new_rails_project.sh

I’ve been spending an awful lot of time lately trying to catch up with the present. I’ve been learning the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails. I think that RoR represents the bleeding edge of not just website development, but software engineering in general. No, it isn’t perfect and it’s still pretty immature, but the ideas around it are pretty revolutionary. As I’ve said before, I think that software like Ruby on Rails is going to eventually evolve into something which will put most software engineers out of their jobs. And, even though that affects me as well, I think it’s a good thing.

37 Signals is selling an ebook, Getting Real, from their Signals vs. Noise blog. 37 Signals used the very same process that they wrote about in Getting Real, to launch Ruby on Rails and other web applications. Mark Bernstein sees the success of the publication of Getting Real as a watershed moment for self-publishing on the web. He notes that 37 Signals sold 1750 copies of Getting Real on the first day.

Ars Technica: great site for the computing enthusiast, read it everyday. Today they have have an article on Duke Nukem Forever. Duke Nukem has apprarently been a game long in development, because developers want to make it multi-platform. Ars claims that as a solution, the developers have decided to build the game utilizing the latest Web 2.0 technologies: Ajax, built on Ruby On Rails. The game will run through any web-browser on any platform.

Через 6 месяцев, мы полностью переписали сайт с нуля на Ruby on Rails и dojo. Заодно мы увеличили команду вдвое, переделали интерфейс и добавили кучу дополнительных, приятных фич.

But seriously, besides Ruby on Rails (duplicate a dozen times in PHP by now with limited success