Microsoft Gunning For Ruby on Rails
Back-End Full-Stack WebMicrosoft has declared victory over J2EE, and is now setting their sites on Ruby on Rails.
Synchronizing SalesForce and Ruby on Rails
Back-End Full-Stack WebSalesforce, the large Customer Relationship Management tool, and Ruby on Rails, the elegant web development framework, seem like an awkward pair. About as awkward...
One Community to Rule Them All
Back-End Full-Stack WebAbout half of the geeks of the world prefer newsgroups for communication and the other half swears by mailing lists. (A tiny percentage prefer...
Ruby Moment of Zen: #method_missing
Back-End Full-Stack WebRealizing that hitting “talk” on my phone dialed the previous number. Figuring out that the arrow next to my fuel gauge showed which side...
Metaprogramming and Ruby on Rails
Back-End Full-Stack WebMetaprogramming is your secret identical twin that likes doing all of the things you don’t. Need to take out the trash? Just tell your...
Running Background Jobs in Ruby on Rails
Back-End Full-Stack WebUPDATE: rails_cron is no longer available, and daemon_generator has moved. BackgrounDRB has gone through a major rewrite, and I’ve got a chapter on...
Heartbeat – manage your Rails Apps from a web control panel
Back-End Full-Stack WebHeartbeat is a single-web page control panel that lets you run any rake task within your application’s directory, from deployment to tests to migrations....
Rails Day 2006 Entry: Heartbeat
Back-End Full-Stack WebNot only were we a Rails Day 2006 Sponsor, but we also competed.
Faster Auto-Completion with Rails
Back-End Full-Stack WebAuto-Complete is a great tool when it provides possible results BEFORE you finish typing. Unfortunately, using Rails’s included AJAX helpers to query the database...
Record-Shattering SF Ruby Meetup
Back-End Full-Stack WebAnother San Francisco Ruby Meetup. Another record-breaking attendance mark (has any Ruby group in the world brought together more than 110 people?).
We Love Rails Day 2006
Back-End Full-Stack WebJust to prove how much we love Rails Day 2006, we’re sponsoring the event. Slingshot Hosting is going to be giving away 6 months...
Real Rails Apps: The Guided Tour
Back-End Full-Stack WebI’ll be giving a Rails presentation to OK.rb this coming Tuesday (June 13th). Anyone in the OKC area is more than welcome to...
