Rails Incorrect Pluralization Bug Filed

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

My pal Steven Baker just filed this bug with the Rails team - #10919 (incorrect pluralization).  Pretty funny stuff - check it out!

Develop a Facebook Platform App with Ruby On Rails

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Stuart Eccles has a great Tutorial on developing a Facebook platform application with Ruby On Rails that will walk you through the paces of creating a Social Recipe application for Facebook. There is good introductory Rails information as well as very complete information on working with the Facebook Developer’s Platform.

What’s the secret sauce in Ruby on Rails?

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

IBM developerWorks has a nice article that answers the question of What’s the secret sauce in Ruby on Rails?  Although almost a year old, I think the article does a nice job of explaining why Rails has become so popular in such a short period of time.  Having recently jumped back into Rails, many of the author’s points hit close to home.

A Moron’s Guide to Capistrano

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

Softies on Rails has a great article titled - The Absolute Moron’s Guide to Capistrano - that will show you how to deploy your next Rails app using the popular Capistrano tool. Capistrano basically automates the SSH-subversion-checkout method for your application to a single and/or multiple servers.

Free Ruby on Rails Screencasts

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Railscasts has a nice collection of free Ruby on Rails screencasts.  Published three times a week,  Ryan Bates shares many tips and tricks with Ruby on Rails. The screencasts are short and focus on one technique so you can quickly move on to applying it to your own project.

The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Dan Web offers his No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications!  His post starts with a great overview of how the OpenID process works then dives right into a fantastic tutorial of supporting OpenID in your Ruby on Rails apps!

Building a Web Application with Ruby on Rails and Amazon S3

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Amazon Web Services Developer Connection is starting to gather a great collection of tutorials for using their amazing web services. Building a Web Application with Ruby on Rails and Amazon S3 is one that caught my eye. It is full of short examples that shows virtually every part of the S3 service and how to access it using Rails.

Building Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Dan Benjamin has updated his awesome instructions for Hivelogic - The Narrative - Building Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X. I’ve used these instructions in the past and they work great. The advantage of his method is that you compile the software from source (don’t be afraid it’s really easy) so you have great control over your configuration and upgrades will be easier.

Evaluation - Rails vs Django

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Rails vs Django is a nice evaluation of the two most popular web application frameworks. Rails uses the Ruby scripting language while Django uses the Python scripting language. Both are very capable and offer a unique set of features. This evaluation shows you how long it took to write the application and compares the lines of code along with some syntactical differences.

Ruby on Rails Development Environment for Windows!

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Project RIDE-ME is yet another Ruby on Rails development environment for Windows! This IDE is similar in look and feel to Visual Studio so should be familiar to those making the switch from .NET to the Rails framework. The project is free and open-source.