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The Rails aren’t so smooth if you want some [Image]Magic[k]
We started some work recently with the much-hyped Ruby / Rails combination. For the most part, it’s lived up to the hype; going down it’s ‘happy path’ has been far more productive than work with some...
View ArticleAt RailsConf, Sitting Around Ignoring Each Other
I’m at RailsConf. In a flagrant attempt to be one of the cool kids, I’ve set up a Flickr account to share my RailsConf Photos. Of the few dozen conference I’ve attented, this one has the highest...
View ArticleLong Rails Stack Trace
I was looking at the RailsConf schedule, and saw the Rails web app that runs it fail with this longish stack trace. A few Rubyists sitting nearby commented that the application was not well configured,...
View Article$200 -> Rubinius
I’ve been using Ruby sporadically for some time, including in a bit of production code (in which it is running well), but the apparent lack of progress toward a more modern VM for Ruby makes it harder...
View ArticleA/B Technique for Web Application Deployment
This description of my “A/B technique for web application deployment” was transcribed from audio, so it less tight, more verbose than my normal prose. I chose to post it in rough form, rather than...
View ArticleIndentation as Block Structure – HAML instead of RHTML
When I starting with Python sometime in 2001, I was briefly frustrated by the intentation-as-block-structure syntax; but after a few weeks I found it natural. Its most obvious advantage is that it...
View ArticleBaseJumpr: BaseCamp -> ActiveCollab
BaseJumpr has a fascinating service offering: they export your data from your Basecamp account, producing a set of files ready to import in to ActiveCollab, the open source...
View ArticleNext Big Language = JavaScript
There’s a lot of buzz about Steve Yegge’s “port” of Rails to JavaScript, and Steve has now provided (in his funny, self-deprecating style) the background of how it came to be. He doesn’t quite say it...
View ArticlePlease, Use a Web Application Framework
Historically I have not been a fan of “frameworks”, and I have often repeated the following joke: What’s the difference between an application and a framework? An application is something a customer...
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