Ruby on Rails

"Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Web Applications" review

Submitted by Damien on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 12:39pm

This was 90% written in January 2007 but the draft was misplaced. Apologies to ORUG who organized obtained a copy for me in exchange for this review.

Ruby on Rails is a simply wonderful technology to develop web applications in. Like all technologies, especially ones with such depth and, at times, unique ways of working, it can take some time to get started using it to develop your own sites.

Rails tip: restful_authentication without a username

Submitted by Damien on Tue, 11/04/2008 - 2:42am

I've personal never understood the point of having a username for web sites when 99% of them also require an email address that is unique to you - just use the email address! In the world of Rails development many developers use the excellent restful_authentication to provide the user login structure, but again out of the box it uses a username. Silly thing. So instead, here's how to make restful_authentication sit rather happy with just an email address.

mod_rails / Phusion Passenger 2 goes gold

Submitted by Damien on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 11:45pm

The greatest system on the market for running Ruby on Rails apps, mod_rails aka Phusion Passenger, has hit v2, their first non-beta / release-candidate release. Great stuff. Go forth and sudo gem install passenger.

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rubygems 1.2.0 causing problems for anyone else? (SOLVED!)

Submitted by Damien on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 4:28am

After updating to rubygems 1.2.0 I've noticed that my mongrels started returning the following colorful error on every XHR load, i.e. all AJAX requests fail but regular page loads are fine:

Mon Jun 23 23:39:15 -0400 2008: HTTP parse error, malformed request (127.0.0.1): #<Mongrel::HttpParserError: Invalid HTTP format, parsing fails.>

Given that rubygems was the last thing I updated, I figured I'd try reverting to the previous 1.1.1 release using the following steps:

mod_rails 2 RC is out, get it!

Submitted by Damien on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 10:05pm

Anyone who does Ruby on Rails development should familiarize themselves with mod_rails aka Phusion Passenger as the brand new v2 RC is just amazing. Just take a look at those improvements: from buffered uploads so apps don't get stuck, to a tremendous reduction in the memory usage, Rack and WSGI support (yeah, it can run Python apps!), improved startup time...

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