Supersonic Feet

A few weeks ago I returned to the world of hiring a full dedicated server for running my websites. The extra control and stability (and resources!) convinced me to make the switch back from shared hosting. The one downside is that unless you're paying the extra for a managed server, you then have to know what ...

My copy of Ruby for Rails, by David A. Black, arrived today and looks pretty good. It's aimed at teaching Ruby itself, but in terms of how it can then be used for Rails application development, which is just what I'm after - seeing some more of the power of the Ruby language that I'm no ...

Just finished the coding on my first (work) Rails project yesterday. We're still waiting for the finished logo and content from the client though, so I'll wait for that before posting a link as I doubt people will be too impressed with pages labelled things like 'Blibble'.

I got to the point of needing to add search to the CMS I'm working on, so did a quick google search to see if there was any existing help for doing search in Rails. Up popped a result on the Rails Wiki, TextSearch. After reading through, it was a basic module for adding search code ...

Having got my Rails CMS working under CGI last night, this morning I switched it to dispatch.fcgi and it really does make a serious speed difference! Running with dispatch.cgi the app was pretty slow, taking a few seconds for each page to load, while using Fast-CGI it's near instantaneous. I'd never actually tried using normal CGI ...