After the recent turmoil I thought it may be worth pointing out a few alternatives to the Rails framework. So here’s 4 Ruby-based web framework alternatives for starters: Ramaze – Has no known bugs and claims excellent stability. Thems fighting words! Camping – A ‘micro-framework’, this is incredibly lightweight offering limited features but great efficiency [...]
If you’ve never heard of Programmable Web then I suggest you take a look. Its a huge directory of all the major APIs on the web open for development. They’ve decided to award the Best API of the Year to the Facebook site. It won based on its openness, audience, money-making potential, viral features, modularity [...]
For anyone else suffering this issue in their Rails app lately since the upgrade I’ve traced it to a deprecation in “acts_as_rateable” and “acts_as_taggable” which both use the value “true” for the dependent parameter instead of one of those listed. The simple ‘hack’ to fix this is to replace “true” with “:destroy”. You’ll find the [...]
I so wanted to avoid using that horrendous ‘N’ word in any part of my blog but I needed something short for the title. Anyway – TAW made an interesting post on his first 2 months on Rails and I sympathise with many of his points but for a different reason. Most of the issues [...]
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 [...]
Compared to other languages you may have used Ruby can seem a little odd. Flexible syntax, talking foxes and mad Japanese geniuses all make it look rather more like an arcane formula than a programming language. Though learning it really couldn’t be simpler because it flows like your mind. In fact the hardest part of [...]
I’ve always been a huge fan of the Pragmatic Programmers books since getting their renowned tome The Pragmatic Programmer. I have to admit it was a stunning book and so too was their “Agile Web Development with Rails”. I also jumped on the band wagon and bought myself the Programming Ruby (a.k.a. ‘Pickaxe’) book and [...]
I’ve been getting into investment a lot recently and so bought a book by James O’Shaughnessy titled “What Works on Wall Street”. Well after a couple of chapters I couldn’t hold off any longer from what I’d read at the end of chapter 1 Dogs of the Dow, You can visit the link for more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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