Tag: RUBYONRAILS

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 ...

If you're a small business looking for an easy way to store and manage invoices online, Invotrak could be the solution you are after. This simple online solution lets users input, track and issue invoices to clients. Its simple and straightforward navigational structures and tracking features make this an effective way to track past due invoices, and incoming revenue without using complicated ...

If you've been anywhere except under a rock for the last 18 months or so, you're probably sick to death of the phrase "Web 2.0," and for many people, Web 2.0 has become almost synonymous with Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails, though, has some major drawbacks for the average web designer. Ruby, while gaining steam, is still not as popular as more established programming languages. There aren't as many ...

My wife (and the rest of my family in fact) has never comprehended what I do as a software developer. Throughout all the years we have been together she has seen me sat in front of the computer and typed code into the screen for hours on end. But still she does not know how ideas in my head are transformed into a software application like one that she uses everyday. She thinks it is all voodoo ...

In my ongoing search for the ultimate software system for use with the Getting Things Done methodology, I've recently come across a real winner. Tracks is a web application that was built from the ground up for the purposes of implementing a GTD system. Written in Ruby on Rails, Tracks offers the familiar Projects and Contexts organization system made popular by David Allen's Getting Things Done ...

"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 ...

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 ...

DevBoi is a simple and cool extension with a silly name by Martin Cohen. It's a sidebar for Firefox that gives you quick access to the documentation for HTML (plus entities), CSS, DOM, XUL, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails. All that's lacking is a modern XHTML 1.0 reference (and adding PHP, Java, Python, JavaScript, and so on wouldn't hurt), and perhaps an about:config-style filter box. Hopefully those ...

Few small software companies have the big following enjoyed by 37signals, the company behind the web-based productivity tools Basecamp, Backpack, and Ta-Da List. Now they're preparing to launch their newest product, Writeboard. As usual, they're being a bit cryptic about what, exactly, Writeboard is for, but this old blog post bills it as "a collaborative text editor that's tailored for ...