Free as in Time

• Long running Threads in Rails and metaprogramming fun. You know, I should just link to Yan’s blog and be done with it.
• Ajax search in Rails
• Book Review: Deploying Rails Applications
• Looking into Rubinius, a new Ruby VM
• Spiceworks: Rapid Ruby, Customer Focus, and Starting a Company

• Testing your ActiveRecord migrations
• Setting The Crontab Environment For Your Ruby on Rails Jobs
• How to setup TinyMCE for Ruby on Rails
• Ruby Plus: Free Ruby and Rails Screencasts
• The RubyFringe conference

http://www.thewebfellas.com/blog/2008/6/9/rails-2-1-now-with-better-integrated-caching

Rails now supports memcache out-of-the-box, as well as other solutions.

Here’s hoping at least one of my projects will ever need to scale.

At this moment I’m highly caffeinated and trying to understand what’s going on here:

Gems On Rails → ‘gemsonrails’ aka ‘vendor everything’

I think it’s the answer to about 70% of my LDAP connection woes. Or it will be. When I can see straight.

In a recent post, DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals, creator of Rails) voiced his opinion on asking for years of experience in job postings for programmers:

Requiring X years of experience on platform Y in your job posting is, well, ignorant. As long as applicants have 6 months to a year of experience, consider it a moot point for comparison. Focus on other things instead that’ll make much more of a difference. Platform experience is merely a baseline, not a differentiator of real importance.

I’d either never picked up on this or totally forgotten it, but I ran across it while reading Ajax on Rails:

If you create a layout file under app/views/layouts/ called application.rhtml, Rails will pick that up as a default layout for your entire application, assuming you haven’t created other layouts already.

By default Rails looks first for a layout template with the same name as the current controller with the extension .rhtml. If it can’t find this layout, it goes looking for application.rhtml layout.

Somehow, I’d gotten in the habit of creating [...]

New to Twitter? Just mildly curious? Never even heard of it? All you need to know about Twitter is for you.

I’m not a Twitter user myself. Yet. Until I read this, I thought it was mostly for SMS kiddies and Crackberry addicts. Guess I was wrong. There seem to be (good; business) uses for the service, and even fire departments are getting on board.

Recommended. Good, quick read.