Blog Posts Tagged with "ruby"

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...

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...

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...

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

I was poking around google for some info on how to enable syntax highlighting in irb and stumbled across wirble. It is an excellent set of enhancements and extremely easy to start using. Give it a shot.

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...

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...