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Rails 1.2: REST admiration, HTTP lovefest, and UTF-8 celebrations

~5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails. [Linked from: Ruby Inside, Ryan's Scraps]
Get out your party balloons and funny hats because we’re there, baby. Yes, sire, Rails 1.2 is finally available in all it’s glory. It took a little...

Rails blogging contest

~5 years ago by Jamis Buck on Riding Rails.
Pat Eyler is running a Ruby blogging contest, sponsored by Apress, and the first month’s topic is Rails Revelations: How Rails made me a better programmmer...

Hackfest 2007 and CD Baby sprint

~5 years ago by jeremy on Riding Rails.
Ah, Portland. The open-source motherland. Pacific springtime beauty. RailsConf ‘07 nirvana.rb # => true and home of CD Baby, a little record store that...

Capistrano 1.3.1

~5 years ago by Jamis Buck on Riding Rails.
I’ve been remiss in announcing recent Capistrano releases, so I’m making up for lost time now. Capistrano 1.3.1 is now available! Capistrano, for...

DailyKos considers Ruby on Rails

~5 years ago by josh on Riding Rails.
Earlier this week, Hunter, uber technocrat at DailyKos.com started talking about how they will build the next version of DailyKos. The discussion has been...

Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 2

~5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
This is it. We’re a mere two shakes of a lamb’s tail from releasing the final version of Rails 1.2. But before we light the fireworks and pop the champaign...

RailsBench available as gem

~5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
Stefan Kaes’ RailsBench benchmarking suite is now available as a gem. This makes it even easier to get started benchmarking your application and find...

Using custom mime types

~5 years ago by Rick Olson on Riding Rails.
So, you’ve started using Rails’ new mime type support with responds_to, but you were wondering how to add your own custom types? Luckily, Geoffrey...

Rubyisms with a flavor of Active Support

~5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
Err the Blog has a great Rails-flavored version of the Ruby Inside Advent Calendar. Instead of just focusing on vanilla Ruby, Chris gives you the lowdown...

Ruby on Rails with Oracle FAQ

~5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
Oracle continues blow loving kisses at Rails. This time they’ve posted a new FAQ on how to get Rails and Oracle out on the first date. Initial installation...