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Trawlr: An amazingly simple Rails-powered feed reader

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ben Smith has just relaunched his Rails-powered online feed reader, Trawlr, after rewriting it using Rails 1.2. It's significantly slicker than before,...

And Now The Best Rails Action and Fragment Caching Tutorial Ever?

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Three weeks ago I mentioned Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer's great page caching tutorial. In that short time, and mostly on the back of that article, they...

Railscasts: Free Ruby on Rails Screencasts

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Railscasts is a new project by Ryan Bates providing regular, free screencasts on topics relating to Ruby on Rails. As opposed to Geoffrey Grosenbach's wonderfully...

Using RubyInline and C To Speed Up Polygonal Point Searches

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Evan Weaver had a basic problem to solve: We need to compute whether a point lies within a polygon. And we need to do it a lot. Due to MySQL's lacking geometry...

Rails For All, A New Rails Advocacy Group, Launches

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Robert Dempsey has launched Rails For All, Inc., a new non-profit Rails advocacy group. Robert says he's created the non-profit because he feels that the...

Benchmarking with httperf: Another great screencast from Geoffrey Grosenbach

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Benchmarking with httperf is a new screencast by Geoffrey Grosenbach in his Peepcode series of Ruby / Rails related videos. It costs $9, but for that you...

Editorial: Did the blogosphere kill the Ruby magazines?

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
I'm currently putting together the list of publications that my publisher, Apress, can send and push my book to. Unfortunately Ruby has a rather lacking...

SQLDSL: A Ruby way to build SQL queries

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
SQLDSL, by Jay Fields, is, simply, "a library for creating SQL statements using Ruby code." Jay posted separately about the pros and cons of SQLDSL on his...

Creating a Rails app and database with NetBeans 6.0 in minutes

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Brian Leonard has put together a fine walkthrough of creating a Rails project in NetBeans 6.0 along with database (powered by Derby). I'm not a Java / Netbeans...

XRuby Already Faster Than Ruby 1.8.5?

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Following on from the bumper Ruby interpreter performance tests by Antonio Cangiano two weeks ago, Xue Yong Zhi decided to run the same performance suite...