Tag: RAILS

In a nutshell: Rails 3 is now officially out! This is a pretty big deal for the Rails community, and it's a release that will reverberate all across the web in many subtle forms. Lots of high-profile sites are Rails-based (think Twitter and Github), and version 3.0 is a massive update. Searching through O'Reilly's Safari Books Online I was unable to find a Rails 3 book – I guess these ...

"Pagination," i.e. turning a long set of, say, search results into a series of pages with "Next" and "Previous" buttons, is no fun. It can be a pain to implement, and is very much a pain to use, and yet it exists on every site that pulls a lot of records from a database. Surely we can't load all of the records at once if there are thousands of them, so is there an alternative? Yes! And I have a ...

Seymore is a Ruby on Rails CMS (that's Content Management System) by Thomas Mango that's still in the earliest stages but nevertheless looks pretty impressive. Seymore relies on the principle of allowing input wherever there's output, i.e. if I'm logged in and looking at a page of the site, I can edit that page right there, without entering an administration back-end or similar. The best way to ...

A year ago, developing a web application using Ruby on Rails (which recently turned two years old) on Windows was a bit of a pain due to the lack of a decent integrated development environment (IDE). Now we're practically swimming in them. Let's recap: There's RadRails, the popular cross-platform, Eclipsed-based editor, RoRED, one for Windows with a unique M/V/C tab grouping, Ruby in Steel, an ...

Blogger Jaros?aw Rzeszótko sent ten questions to a bunch of notable programmers and posted their answers on his blog. Though not all of his recipients replied, several big names did, including Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Guido Van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, James Gosling, creator or Java, and Ruby hackers Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson. To a programmer ...

I love Ruby on Rails, but I have to admit, the acronym "RoR" kind of annoys me. Anyway, I won't let that idiosyncrasy of mine be a strike against RoRED, a brand new integrated development environment (IDE) for Ruby on Rails. RoRED is Windows-only app that has most of the features you expect in a basic IDE, like syntax highlighting (for both Ruby and HTML/RHTML), tabbed documents, and a file ...

InstantRails is a simple to use LAMP-like package that you can download to get Rails running on Windows in an instant. It includes a MySQL database, Ruby, Rails, Apache web server, and even some Ruby on Rails applications for you to modify including a version of Typo. InstantRails has both FastCGI and Webbrick, so you can develop with either. I find InstantRails is great for portability, such as ...

Ever heard of Ruby? Rails? Ruby on Rails? If you don't know, Ruby is a newer very efficient programming language and revolutionary way to code applications. Rails is a web framework that makes coding in Ruby easier by adding a lot to it's innate functionality and suave style. After becoming jealous of the Mac users out there who had a great text editor to use when coding Ruby (at least in the ...

June 17 was Rails Day 2006, the annual worldwide event in which teams create cool new web apps in 24 hours using the much-hyped Ruby on Rails web application framework. I've been waiting ever since for a list of projects to be posted, but so far none has materialized at the official Rails Day site, but fortunately John at Burm.net has posted an unofficial list of live Rails Day 2006 projects. His ...