Blog Posts Tagged with "rails"

Yesterday, 8/9/2006, Ruby on Rails 1.1.5 was released, followed quickly by 1.1.6 today, and is considered a mandatory upgrade for anyone running a Rails site on a public facing server. The vulnerability that 1.1.6 fixes is a routing bug that allowed code to be run which is normally only run for develop...

A few months ago I started playing/solving Sudoku puzzles. One of the best sites I've found online is Iron Sudoku. It's a great site... check it out. Plus it's built in Rails too! (...

Adam and I were able to attend the first international Rails Conference this past weekend (June 23rd-26th) in Chicago. It was good to see what everyone in the community was doing and to hear the latest things coming down the pipe from the core development team. The community around Ruby on Rails is growing fast and it...

I was impressed recently with the Rails knowledge that Colin (on the job since May with a basic knowledge of XHTML/CSS) has picked up in the short amount of time that he's been here. A few weeks ago I noticed he was digging into the

When implementing an RSS feed on this site, we ran into an intersting problem. The feeds worked perfectly on my development machine and on our development server. However, once the site was placed on the live server, the feeds no longer worked. After searching and trying to debug the issue for quite some tim...

It has been a while since I have had to do much work in .NET since we started our migration towards Open Source tools about 10 months ago. Today I had to deploy a .NET site and I was amazed at how long it took me compared to deploying a Rails site. By the time I had created a new copy of the .NET site, cleaned out t...

I received a jubilant email today from Shawn that contained a link to this article officially announcing that Mac OS X Leopard will indeed...

After reading Colin's excellent post on search engine optimization, I decided that my personal blog could use a little fine-tuning to hopefully index it a little higher in search results. Google, at lea...

Rails page caching is without a doubt the best way to speed up your application and reduce the server load. I decided to cache some XML I was dumping out for a web service and realized that Rails will cache the document as HTML. As long as the controller handles nothing but xml you can do the following as a work-aro...

This morning, I formatted an email newsletter for Nuci's Space. Because most web-based email services don't support modern web standards in their preview...

When using Ruby on Rails, ERb (embedded Ruby) is used a LOT in the X/HTML. There are two types of ERb, An evaluation block: <% so...

We use page caching in Rails to speed up sites and improve performance. This is a great feature of Rails but can get cumbersome when trying to keep up with which pages to sweep and when. To make life easier we use a separate directory to house the cache. This solution is great for files that end in a .html extension...

There isn't a single command in subversion to remove external plugins from your application so I figured I would post this to help the next person save 10 minutes of reading docs. Make sure you are in the root of your app and do: svn propedit svn:externals vendor/plugins

Sometimes you hate the things that make your life so easy, because you have some problems with those things that make it temporarily more difficult. But then you fix the problems, and everything's back to being cool again. In this case, I'm using Engines with Ruby on Rails, and there seems to be a conflict ...