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Canadian Rails Hosting

February 6th

Sure it’s an ad, but it’s interesting and possibly useful:
Ruby on Rails Web Hosting for Canadian Sites

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25 Ruby and Rails Cheat Sheets

February 6th

A cheat sheet for every occasion:
Ruby and Ruby on Rails cheat sheets.

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Rails 2.0.2

January 9th

Dreamhost (at least the server we use) has upgraded to Rails 2.0.2, and I’ve also done so in my local development environment.

Next up, upgrading some sites/projects, both for us and clients.

To see what’s new in this release, check out the Rails blog.

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RoR Tuesday 13/11/2007

November 13th

It’s been a while since my last “Ruby Tuesday”, but I’m hoping to revive the feature. Here’s some stuff that caught my attention this week:

InfoQ has a quick piece on The Forgotten Ruby Web Frameworks:

With the success of Ruby on Rails, is there a place left for other Web frameworks written in Ruby? Everyone knows Rails, some might even have heard of Merb and Camping, but has anyone heard of Nitro, Ramaze, Sinatra, IOWA or Cerise? InfoQ quickly tours these frameworks and how they are appreciated (or ignored) by [...]

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Rails Pagination with the paginating_find Plugin

November 8th

A day or two ago, a colleague pointed out to me that PostedJobs.ca was pretty thoroughly busted. After a moment of thinking, it occurred to me that I hadn’t done any pagination of the jobs lists, and over time they’d simply gotten too big to grab and display in one gulp. Oops. I mean, I knew it’d be a problem… I just didn’t expect it so soon.

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