Capistrano is a great tool for deploying Rails applications. However, by default Capistrano requires that the servers being deployed to have access to the version control repository to check out the code. While this may not seem like a big deal at first, there are situations where it is just not feasible.

I have run into […]

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Someone recently ran a benchmark comparing Rails to Django and Symfony and the posted the results on the Rails wiki. The gist of the benchmark is that the author created some dynamic content in all three frameworks and then used siege to hammer the server with 50 and then 150 concurrent users. At 50 users […]

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I have been playing around with Typo and decided to see how difficult it would be to try to migrate my content from WordPress. As it turns out, the conversion script that comes with Typo is completely non-functional with the pre-release version of Typo 4 and WordPress 2.0.x. Like a good open-source user I checked […]

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Update: This problem was fixed in Rails 1.1.4. Kudos to the Rails core team for a quick response.

I just upgraded to Rails 1.1.3 and ran into some strangeness in the routing code. In my application I have a set of controllers that are dedicated to administrative functions so I have put them in a subdirectory […]

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I was at RailsConf 2006 where DHH gave a great keynote on what amounts to REST principles. I had heard a lot about REST, but until DHH’s talk couldn’t really wrap my mind around the concept. Now that I have a better mental map of the REST concepts, I have been doing some research. Here […]

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I have been spending time learning Ruby on Rails (RoR) recently and I decided to throw together a list of resources that I found useful getting started.

I recommend getting started with these articles:

What is Ruby on Rails Rolling with Ruby on Rails Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2 Really Getting Started in Rails Ajax on Rails

Here are some […]

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