Supersonic Feet

A while back, Phusion released a product called Passenger, effectively mod_rails for Apache. The idea is that rather than having to do a lot of the usual manual setup work when running a Rails app (using mod_proxy to point at mongrel_clusters, etc.), you can just have them run automatically via Apache, the same way PHP apps ...

This would've been so useful to me when I switched from PHP to Ruby a couple of years ago: the PHP documentation with the Ruby equivalent described for each function. Found via RubyFlow.

The official Rails blog has the announcement that Rails 2.0 is done and great news that is too. Now I just need to find the time to eventually catch up on all the changes and start playing with it!

Tantek Çelik's slides from his talk on Social Network Portability are a very good, quick read as an introduction to supporting social network portability on your own site/service using microformats. The slides include real, practical demonstrations of how it can be done and having made a bit of a start (i.e. not a good-enough start) on ...

Not quite but Derek Sivers, an early proponent of switching to Rails for large-scale websites, has written a post on his O'Reilly blog about why he just gave up on 2 years' work in Rails on his CD Baby project to switch back to PHP. It's a very sensible article looking at the fact that Rails ...