Rails Escapes the Ghetto, Phusion Passenger now used on Dreamhost
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View ArticleRuby Enterprise Edition website “launched”
http://www.RubyEnterpriseEdition.com/ has been “launched”. Next hint to be revealed on May 20, 2008.
View ArticlePhusion Passenger™ 2.0 RC 1 and Ruby Enterprise Edition released
Phusion Passenger™ 2.0 RC 1 and Ruby Enterprise Edition have finally been released. See http://blog.phusion.nl/2008/06/09/phusion-passenger-20-rc-1-and-ruby-enterprise-edition-released/ for the...
View ArticleReadable test names in Rails 2.1
I’m currently working on a Rails application. It has some non-trivial business rules, so I ended up writing test methods along the lines of: Ruby def...
View ArticleThe state of Ruby on Rails documentation
Jeremy has recently stated his concerns about the state of Ruby on Rails documentation. It isn’t the first time that people have criticized the documentation, but it is a bit worrisome that people are...
View ArticleThe state of Ruby on Rails documentation II: Return of the Manuals
Last time I blogged about the state of Ruby on Rails documentation. Those of you who have been around long enough probably remember manuals.rubyonrails.org. Back in the days, this website was very...
View Articlewiki.rubyonrails.org was down
Today wiki.rubyonrails.org was briefly down, for like 30 minutes or so. I thought it might be a problem in Phusion Passenger, seeing that the wiki is running on it. I wanted to the restart Apache, but...
View Articlevalidates_uniqueness_of does not guarantee uniqueness
Using validates_uniqueness_of in conjunction with ActiveRecord::Base#save does not guarantee the absence of duplicate record insertions, because uniqueness checks on the application level are...
View Articledefault_value_for Rails plugin: declaratively define default values for...
We’ve just released default_value_for, a plugin for declaratively defining default values for ActiveRecord models.
View ArticleLong-running requests, now a problem of the past
Do you have long-running requests in your web applications? Say, requests that can take 30 seconds or longer. Before, you might run into web server queuing problems. However, this is now a problem of...
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