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Rate Four short links: 12 November 2009 - CRM on Rails, Data Mining on Hadoop, Disappointing Keynotes, The Teapot Effect

Original at O'Reilly Radar external link    Wed, Nov 11

By Nat Torkington Fat Free CRM -- open source (Affero GPL) Ruby on Rails CRM system. Bixo -- open source data mining toolkit that runs as a series of pipes on top of Hadoop. Built on Cascading workflow system for Hadoop that hides MapReduce. (via kdnuggets) Andy Kessler's Keynote at Defrag Stank (Pete Warden) -...

Rate Morph Application Platform Simplifies Ruby on Rails Development

Original at Web 2.0 with Ruby on Rails external link    Sun, Nov 1

By ceefour Morph helpME is a Ruby on Rails application running on the Morph Application Platform. It’s automatically formats, structures and creates menus, enabling faster deployment of new content. If you are Ruby on Rails developers, bring your on-demand application to life with the Morph Appl...

Rate Ruby on Rails Web Hosting for Canadian Sites

Original at Web 2.0 with Ruby on Rails external link    Fri, Oct 30

By ceefour The shared hosting plans offered by Canadian Web Hosting starts from the tight-budget CAD$3.95/mo (2 year prepayment). Ruby on Rails support is provided with the CA Pro plan which is only CAD$15.95/month (2 year prepayment), with 3500 GB bandwidth, and 300 GB space. All the “standard” web h...

Year 2009

 

Rate On communicating better

Original at Signal vs. Noise external link    Wed, Sep 9

By Jason F. It turned out that the issue was related to Ruby on Rails. The exploit affected multiple products (ours and others). After the initial investigation, and escalation to the Rails security team, the root cause was patched within a few days of the initial report. We then updated our apps, teste...

Rate Have fun testing your application with Cucumber

Original at Katipo Developers external link    Thu, Sep 3

By kieran When I started on a new Ruby on Rails project at Katipo Communications, I evaluated a range of testing libraries, and decided on Cucumber. It’s simple and has a flexible style of feature testing. For more info about it, see the Cucumber Wiki Documentation. In this post, I’ll detail some of my e...

Rate Pair Networks Launches New VPS

Original at Web Host Industry Review external link    Tue, Jun 9

Unlike many other competing VPS offers, pairVPS includes 24/7 real-time telephone and e-mail technical support, as well as 24/7 server monitoring and hardware replacement, on and off-site backups, and pre-installed software including Ruby on Rails, ...

Rate Can the cloud succeed without a killer app?

Original at InfoWorld external link    Mon, Jun 1

 CA Bray said there has been no killer application that sparked either the PHP language or the Ruby on Rails framework into the popularity they now enjoy. "They just became immensely popular because they allowed people to become more agile," Bray said. ...

Rate How To: guateonrails_episodio_06_migraciones_parte_02.ogvVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Apr 1

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By rss@youtube.com (guateonrails) Author: guateonrails Keywords: Guatemala Ruby on Rails Ruby Espa;ol Gratis Free Screencast Tutorial Videotutorial Added: April 1, 2009

Rate Surpass Intros Hosting For Developers

Original at Web Host Industry Review external link    Fri, Mar 27

Surpass Hosting Developer Tools lets clients install more than a dozen development frameworks, each automatically updated each night from the repository trunk to keep the code up to date. The development frameworks include Ruby on Rails, jQuery, ...

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Original at YouTube external link    Fri, Mar 13

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By rss@youtube.com (ruby0nrailszerotopro) Author: ruby0nrailszerotopro Keywords: Ruby on Rails Tutorial Ruby on Rails Ruby Rails Added: March 13, 2009

Rate Test Center review: King of the dynamic IDEs

Original at TMCnet external link    Thu, Feb 26

The IDE won InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year award for Best Ruby on Rails IDE. Read the Test Center comparison of Rails tools. ] Komodo's extension and plug-in manager -- similar to the add-on manager in Firefox -- make it easy to see what's ...

Rate How To: Ruby on Rails - Engine Yard Solo Basics, Part IVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Tue, Feb 24

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By rss@youtube.com (engineyardvideo) Learn how to deploy your Ruby on Rails application to Amazon's EC2 in 10 minutes with this screencast from Engine Yard and PeepCode. In Part I, we cover getting started on Engine Yard Solo, setting up an instance and deploying a basic Ruby on Rails application. For more information about Eng...

Rate Quick Review: Head First Rails

Original at Computerworld external link    Sun, Feb 22

 MA But if you're still at the early stages of learning Ruby on Rails and looking for another resource to help you wrap your head around this Web development framework, Head First Rails may be worth a look -- especially if you enjoy attempts to lighten up ...

Rate Mosso Swapping Ruby on Rails Platform

Original at Web Host Industry Review external link    Thu, Jan 22

 - In its explanation for discontinuing the use of Cloud Sites with RoR sites, Mosso says it iniatally had a "pretty lofty ambition... to build a Ruby on Rails ...

Rate Opinion: Ruby Heroes Speak (Pro Ruby Conference Series: Part 3)

Original at Obie Fernandez external link    Tue, Jan 6

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Matt's firm, Eastmedia, was one of the earliest professional design agencies to do heavy Rails work, including the first Ruby on Rails-based implementation of OpenID for Verisign and the official site of NFL football team The New York Jets. He gave me plenty of technical review help and c...

Rate Opinion: Merb, Rails Myths, Language Popularity and other ZenbitsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at antoniocangiano.com external link    Tue, Nov 25

By Antonio Cangiano Rails Myths: David Heinemeier Hansson began a series of posts about Rails Myths. I like the idea of seeing common myths addressed straight from the horse’s mouth. Over the past two years, Rails has received quite a bit of backslash and old fashion FUD, so it’s important to set the record stra...

Rate Review of the first two EnvycastsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at antoniocangiano.com external link    Thu, Nov 6

By Antonio Cangiano The following quiz contains five fairly simple questions about ActiveRecord and Rails 2.2. Try to see if you can answer all of them. 1) What’s wrong with the following (technically valid) line of code? Guide.find(:all, :include => [:user, {:questions => [:user, {:answers => :us...

Rate Book Review - Build Your Own RoR Web Applications

Original at JRoller external link    Sat, Oct 18

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By evans Build Your Own RoR Web Applications We’ve all seen it. Any time you visit Sitepoint, you’ve probably been hit with the ad for their Ruby on Rails book, titled “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications”, by Patrick Lenz. Dubbed as “The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Ruby On Rails”, I figured...

Rate Patch: Advanced Rails Recipes - Keeping Forms Dry and Flexible - Plugin

Original at headfirstproductions.ca external link    Mon, Oct 13

By darren@headfirstproductions.ca I’ve updated the previous patch of ElevatedFormBuilder to a Ruby on Rails plugin. You can now install it as a plugin from my github: script/plugin install git://github.com/darrenterhune/elevated_form_builder.git If anyone has any ...

Rate Podcast: Jeremy Kemper - Rails 2

Original at IT Conversations external link    Sat, Oct 4

Rails 2 has a lot of things to feel happy about. Jeremy Kemper, one of the earliest and one of the largest contributors to the Ruby on Rails framework, gives a detailed explanation of the new features in Rails 2.0 and 2.1.

Rate How To: Tutorial : Basics on Ruby on Rails 2 Model, Controller and Views ...

Original at Tutorialized.com external link    Sat, Sep 27

This tutorial explores the MVC concept of Ruby on Rails ie Model,View and Controller.

Rate Last we checked, PHP IS a framework.

Original at Untitled external link    Sat, Jun 7

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By Akash Mehta PHP is designed for the web. You could plug vanilla Ruby or Python into a web server and get up and running pretty quickly. But, at least at a basic level, you’d want a framework to deal with common issues of web development. In PHP, you just get started. PHP and Apache work out request data, output...

Rate Rails Creator Promotes Balance

Original at eWeek external link    Mon, Jun 2

  NY - At the RailsConf conference about the Ruby on Rails Web development framework here on May 30, Rails' creator David Heinemeier Hansson gave a rousing keynote ... Cutting Back Not for Everyone eWeek all 2 news articles

Rate Patch: links for 2008-05-22

Original at BieberLabs (Feedburner) external link    Wed, May 21

By Ron Bieber rails - Ruby on Rails Tutorial on creating patches with Git - for Rails developers. Good general information here. (tags: git version-control patches source tips versioncontrol patch howto) A List Apart: Articles: Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow “The sculpture demonst...

Rate Patch: GlassFish v3 Gem 0.2.0 released

Original at Sun Bloggers external link    Sun, May 4

By arungupta A newer version of GlassFish v3 Gem for Ruby on Rails is now available. What's new ? Codebase aligned with GlassFish v3 Technology Preview 2 Previous version (0.1.2) had some packaging issues which increased the size but now it's back to sweet 2.8 Mb. Check if previously installed by using the f...

Rate Opinion: Sr. Software Engineer - Ruby on Rails at: USA,CA, San Francisco

Original at jobs.rubynow.com external link    Tue, Feb 19

Looksmart is looking for experienced Sr. Software Developers - Ruby on Rails for a major e-commerce development project based in San Francisco. Responsibilities: * Perform software development of new Ad Center functions. * Perform maintenance and bug fixing on existing Ad Center funct...

Rate How To: Flexible Rails - Flex 3 on Rails 2

Original at KnowFree v1.0 external link    Mon, Feb 11    8 related articles

By Mr.Blue Flexible Rails is a unique, application-based guide for using Ruby on Rails 2 and Adobe Flex 3 to build rich Internet applications (RIAs). It is not an exhaustive Ruby on Rails or Flex reference. Instead, it is an extensive tutorial in ...

Rate 6 things to try in Rails this year

Original at Untitled external link    Tue, Jan 8

By Myles Eftos It seems that blog posts in the first couple of weeks of the new year (happy new year by the way) follow the “x things to do this year” meme as a virtual homage to new years resolutions. Never one to buck a trend, I have prepared this short list of things you should try in Ruby and in Rails - I hope to c...

Year 2007

 

Rate Five-Minute Ruby on Rails jMaki Tutorial

Original at Sun Bloggers external link    Fri, Dec 14

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By divas If you have installed the NetBeans IDE support for Ruby and you are interested in integrating jMaki in your Ruby on Rails projects, here is a five-minute tutorial that will get you started. In this tutorial, you add a Yahoo data table to a Ruby on Rails view. (If you have not yet installed the Ne...

Rate Patch: New Version of Dargens - UPDATE

Original at IceRocket blog search external link    Sun, Dec 9

By Ezzye No not VB, its Java and Ruby on Rails. Damn these AI blog image finders. New Version Update: 1)Works well with Firefox -GUI fully functional can search download and open from the web page. 2)GUI has an issue with IE6 - hope fully we can fix this within the week. 3)STUNT is not working well, needs to ...

Rate How To: Head Rush Ajax [ILLUSTRATED]

Original at Free ebooks Portal external link    Wed, Nov 21    5 related articles

IMG]ReadMore [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Programming, Ajax : Ajax on Rails [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] Authir: linus | 21 November 2007 | Views: 0 [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] [IMG Ajax on Rails] Learn to build dynamic, interactive web applications using the two most imp...

Rate Michael Koziarski - Ruby on Rails Podcast

Original at Boing Boing external link    Thu, Oct 11

Rails core member Michael Koziarski talks about Rails 2.0, the new patch process, and working on the core team. From RailsConf in Berlin.

Rate Christian Neukirchen - Ruby on Rails Podcast

Original at Boing Boing external link    Mon, Sep 24

Christian Neukirchen, Ruby veteran and inventor of the tumblelog.

Rate Opinion: Ruby on Rails Developers IDE, NetBeans 6 Beta 1 is Out!

Original at Web 2.0 with Ruby on Rails external link    Wed, Sep 19

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By Hendy Irawan NetBeans is a powerful and free. You can create Ruby and Rails projects, run Ruby files, configure interpreters (MRI and JRuby), install Gems graphically, run tests, run RSpecs, debug Ruby code, run Rails apps, and so on, all from the IDE. The Ruby edition is only a 19MB download and it’s ava...

Rate Opinion: Ruby, Rails, and Risk

Original at riskmanagementinsight.com external link    Fri, Aug 31

Java has the notion of a security manager where folks can specify what types of code can be allowed to execute. Ruby currently has no such notion. While I know this is under development, one needs to ask whether using Ruby without one is a security risk?

Rate Opinion: Ruby 101: Hashes are Cool

Original at "ruby on rails" external link    Sun, Aug 26

So where’s the win? Ruby 934, C# 0 Ready to learn more about the synergies between Ruby and Rails? Sign up now for our two-day Ruby on Rails workshop Essential Rails before it’s too late. Rails workshop Essential Rails before it’s too late.

Rate eRubyCon - Bruce Tate - Ruby on Rails Podcast

Original at Boing Boing external link    Fri, Aug 24

Robert Stevenson interviews Bruce Tate about Changing the Present and Ruby in the enterprise. From eRubyCon in Columbus, OH. Deploying Rails ApplicationsPrevious interview with Bruce Tate in March, 2006

Rate How To: Using Script.aculo.us in Ruby on Rails

Original at Tutorialized.com external link    Sat, Aug 18    5 related articles

Teaches you how to utilize the Rails framework and write powerful JavaScript effects with only a few lines of code. Refurbished and Used Networking Equipment Network Liquidators sells refurbished and used networking equipment for up to ...

Rate Opinion: RailsConf2007

Original at martinfowler.com external link    Sat, Jul 21

One of the biggest issues our Ruby teams run into is deployment. Getting a ruby app into production involves a whole bunch of new technologies, and data centers tend to be conservative on this kind of thing. Our RubyWorks stack tries to simplify this, but JRuby offers the choice of just deplo...

Rate PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 3: PHP Security Compared to Other Development Environments

Original at ZendDeveloperZone (Feedburner) external link    Tue, Jun 12

This article lists five of the ‘worst offenders’ of misconfigurations of application security that are universally problematic for all ASP.NET Web-based applications.SQL Injection @ .Net Developer’s JournalEd Finkler’s home pageCERI...

Rate PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 3: PHP Security Compared to Other Development Environments

Original at devzone.zend.com external link    Tue, Jun 12

This article lists five of the ‘worst offenders’ of misconfigurations of application security that are universally problematic for all ASP.NET Web-based applications.SQL Injection @ .Net Developer’s JournalEd Finkler’s home pageCERI...

Rate Podcast: Jonathan: Linuxtag 2007 slides on Amazon S3 and EC2

Original at blog.innerewut.de external link    Fri, Jun 8

The talk was a broad introduction to S3 and EC2 and had some examples and scenarios using a Ruby on Rails application. I will present a more Rails centric variant of this talk at the upcoming Rails Konferenz in Frankfurt, Germany. Further I will be talking about S3/EC2 and Rails at the RailsCo...

Rate Podcast: Computerworld TechCast: Java for Rails Developers

Original at Computerworld external link    Thu, May 24

You've probably heard about "Ruby on Rails", a programming method that's popular among Web applications developers, but what about using other languages with the Rails programming framework? In this episode of the podcast, you'll hear an interview with author Justin Gehtland, talk...

Rate How To: Mephisto on GlassFish v3 (and other notes on Ruby on Rails)

Original at Sun Bloggers external link    Thu, May 24

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The Aquarium Arun has posted a nice set of write-ups on how to use jRuby and Rails onGlassFish,including Getting Started withRoRand several Hello Worlds: basic,RoRwith a databaseand RoR with a databasein a WAR.

Rate How To: Ruby on Rails Helpers Paginating Collections in Rails Tutorial

Original at Tutorialized.com external link    Mon, May 21

Rate CrowdRules

Original at Ajaxian external link    Mon, Mar 26

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is a “crowd-powered content recommendation engine”. We use Ajax in a few, carefully-selected parts of our application to improve the user experience. Our application is written using Ruby on Rails and implements Ajax features using RJS templates and the Prototype library. These tools a...

Rate The Camping Episode - Ruby on Rails Podcast

Original at Boing Boing external link    Fri, Feb 2

Three interviews with developers who use why the lucky stiff’s Camping framework. See also Presenter and DCSS by Myles ByrneCheat by Chris WanstrathFog Creek SoftwareDream Ledger by Michael GorsuchMountain West Ruby Conference

Rate Tutorial 'O The Day: Introducing Django

Original at Wired News external link    Mon, Jan 8

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Perhaps the best comparison for Django is Ruby on Rails, which is also a web application framework written, regrettably, in Ruby, whereas Django is, thankfully, written in Python. Django pushes what’s known as the DRY principle, “Don’t Repeat Yourself.” and indeed most aspects of Djang...

Year 2006

 

Rate Ruby on Rails creator says install patch, like, now

Original at CNet News.com Blog external link    Thu, Aug 10

The Ruby on Rails project on Wednesday released Rails 1.1.5, a security upgrade that creator David Heinemeier Hansson said was a mandatory patch that fixes what he called a critical ...

Rate Book Review: Ruby for Rails by David A. Black

Original at Blogcritics external link    Sun, Jul 16

By Christopher T. Miller Part 1: The Ruby/Rails Landscape" delves directly into the code, first explaining the basic of the Ruby programming language, then explaining how the Rails framework can be used for rapid application development. These are simply overviews, but by the time you finish them, you are read...

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