So, I just watched the latest screen cast from Ryan Bates of railscasts.com fame, on a plugin that he has written called canan. It is an authorization plugin and he wrote it in response to a plugin that he had previously reviewed called declarative authorization, which he thought (and I agree) is too heavy weight [...]
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Ramaze
I have decided to go back to writing all my personal projects in Ramaze. The only reason being I feel I need to broaden my knowledge horizon, and I feel it is the most complete and stable alternative ruby framework out there. I also see it having longevity. I am also quite impatient with waiting [...]
My Rails Lasagna
With over two years worth of rails development under my belt something happened to me the other day. Something clicked, and not only was I a professional Ruby on Rails developer by way of my job, but I also became a professional Ruby on Rails developer by way of my state of mind.
Let me explain [...]
Rumbling on Rails
This past weekend, me and a couple of the guys that I work with participated in the rails rumble.
48 hours to build an application in rails from scratch.
Very good experience, not much more to say about it. Here is our effort. If you are a twitter user/fan or even if you are not, you might [...]
Mack No More – I’m So Tired
I really cannot catch a break with a framework.
No sooner had I decided to use Mack as a framework, that the developer announces that it will no longer be maintained.
I am being pushed into a corner.
The only frameworks left that have the maturity I would like is Rails and Merb. Rails I am not too [...]
Back and forth
Well well well, no sooner had I made the decision to switch from Rails to Merb, does the Merb and Rails team announce that Merb 2.0 will essentially be rails 3.0. Yep that’s right the 2 teams have joined and will be porting all the things that make Merb great to Merb 3.0.
This means that [...]
Decisions decisions!
Well time to explain why I prefer Merb to Rails.
If you are someone that uses Merb already, then all of this will be old news to you. For the rest of you keep reading.
Well merb’s tag line is, “Everything that you need, nothing that you don’t”, and me being an economical person I like the [...]
Rails free online courses
More free online rails goodness
http://www.buildingwebapps.com/
A little caffeine could do you good.
Two very interesting articles about a framework called caffeine, which allows you to use multiple other frameworks to scale your applications.
http://vanrb.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/sunny-hirai/
http://vanrb.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/rails-merb-vs-caffeine/
Rails -> Merb
The time has finally come. After a while of watching the Merb project, and seeing the advancements that they have made, and loving the whole why the framework has been built, I have decided to only develop personal projects in only in Merb from now on.
For the sake of work I will continue to use [...]