Supersonic Feet

I’ve spent a good portion of my weekend banging my head against the desk after getting the hare-brained idea, following my success in setting up Apache 1.3.x with mod_proxy and Mongrel, to get Apache 2.2 running on my server so that I could then use mod_proxy_balancer and therefore mongrel_cluster. As anyone who’s ever asked the question ...

Found via Ruby Inside, Chris Wanstrath has posted a great round-up of a developer's options for session management within Rails. Stefan Kaes' solution looks like the one I'm gonna go for in the near future.

Something I check on the status of now and then is the ability to have a nice upload progress bar for uploads via the browser. Sean Treadway's initial example looked great but required special server setup. Support was added to Mongrel recently, but I never got around to properly investigating as there was no documentation of ...

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'.