Tag Archives: rails

Latest NetBeans 6.0 Ruby/JRuby/Rails Support

The first shiny Ruby-supported beta of Netbeans 6.0 IDE by Sun has been released. With Ruby’s features maturing rapidly this looks to give Radrails a serious run for its money.I’ve always been a huge fan of Netbeans over Eclipse so I’m glad to see it jumping ahead like this and adding Ruby support was a [...]

Peepcode Killer

Railscasts – This can’t be good for Peepcodes sign ups?  Competition is all good though – especially when we start getting something for nothing.   mmmmmm knowledge! . [UPDATE: As you’ll see form the comments it looks like RailsCast is sponsored by PeepCode so maybe its not a killer but a parent? Surrogate mother? Either way [...]

YABSML Ruby & Rails Markup Language

After many hours of blood sweat and tears I have finally released my brand spanking new, revolutionary markup language for Rails. To keep things simple I decided to make 40% of it identical to Markaby, 20% identical to DRYML and some RBML thrown in for good measure. I’ve added some of the features available in [...]

Rails Recipes

I recently bought my copy of Rails Recipes off Amazon and have been digesting its contents ever since. So far – I’m well impressed. From the very beginning it had those differences so inherent in Pragmatic Books. Those mini innovations like the non-crease spine, the friendly narrative, etc. Well in this new Rails book they [...]

A Good Rails/Ruby VPS

I’ve seen a number of posts recently of people wanting to set up or upgrade Rails/Ruby on their shared hosting accounts. My blog is still on the ASO shared hosting but I’m slowlyt moving everything across to my Rimu Hosting VPS. I’ve been using the RimuHosting VPS plan for about a month now. What I [...]

Rails Security Issues Revealed

Well its been an exciting few weeks of security issues both in the Rails world and the real world. With the severity of the issues it was deemed necessary to keep a lid on the vulnerabilities until people had a chance to upgrade. The issue is in fact of such a criticality that we’re not [...]

Typo 4.0 – Spoke to Soon

After a weekend of issues with Typo I decided to hold off a bit longer. You can see the current state of the blog at: www.sage-ware.co.uk. Not looking good – if anyone would like to offer a suggesstion then please do. In the meantime I’ve decided to move on and come back with fresh eyes [...]

Ajax Scaffold – Improved Search/Filter

I can’t take the credit for this one this time but its a huge improvement on the previous category filter I created using the Ajax Scaffold Generator earlier in the month. This one courtesy of a gentleman at ASG Google Groups who posted a filter with an auto complete search box and after giving it [...]

RubyCorner

A blogging and discussion corner has been set up for Ruby fanatics everywhere. You can register to begin adding your favourite Ruby blog or regularly updated Ruby content straight-away. Think Digg for Ruby. Current examples include: A Ruby & Rails blog set up by two .Net guys – be interesting to see their perspective. Blogfish [...]

37 Signals Release Essays as Ebook

The team over at 37Signals recently started offering 91 essays across 171 pages of an ebook on web app software development at the respectable price of $19. Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software [...]