One of our most popular article is “Rails 3 Quicktip: Autoload lib directory including all subdirectories, avoid lazy loading” in which we describe how autoloading the lib directory in Rails 3 can be done. However, one problem was still there, Rails 3 loads the lib directory on startup, but doesn’t reload the lib directory after [...]
After nearly 2 years, thousands of commits, and with the help of 1600 developers it is done. Today Rails 3.0 has been released. Rails 3.0 not only has plenty of new and useful features, it also has been rewritten from the ground and is the basis of all future development. “Convention over Configuration” is still [...]
Sending emails is an essential part of every web application. Setting up an email server isn’t to difficult, getting the emails to recipient without getting marked as “spam” is. Using Sendgrid solves both problems for you and offers other features too. However, I don’t care much for a rich feature set, for me it is [...]
Neil Ford of ThoughtWorks talks in this presentation about experiences and lessons learned while they built a complex high traffic site with Rails. First he tells us why they decided to use Ruby on Rails. Then he explains how they try to keep the development team as productive as possible. E.g. to accelerate testing, they [...]
Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, discusses current web trends. I actually like his cautious view of RIAs (although it conflicts with Sun’s current JavaFX direction). Some highlights of the interview: WS* is already legacy. WS* will be more and more replaced with RESTful services RIAs are overrated, user like simple interfaces [...]
