After some break, I got back to Rails land. The return is not as smooth as I hoped: since Rails 2.0, many things work differently and quite a few steps learned from “The Book” do not work any more. The issues are more often than not quite easy to fix, but there is quite a [...]
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JRuby trunk – issues with JDBC connectivity
2007/12/28Following the book on JRuby I am discovering small differences when trying the examples. After installing activerecord-jdbc gem which is available in version 0.5, the shoplet application fails with Rails 2.0, as soon as you click on the ‘About your application environment’ link. I found out that there is newer version of activerecord-jdbc, which is [...]
Free PDF ebook 'Build your own Ruby on Rails Application'
2007/10/02For sixty more days (actually 59 days and 17 hours as of Time.now, or if you prefer to speak Javaish rather than Rubyish, new java.util.Date()) you will be able to download free PDF version of the book by Patrick Lenz Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications – courtesy of nice guys of Sitepoint. [...]
Petstore for Ruby/JRuby
2007/10/01There is – after all – a Petstore implementation for Ruby. Somebody asked a question at the DZone and the response posted by Raphael Valyi was: Re: Is there a Pet Store in Grails/Rails? I’m speaking here for the Rails (JRuby) side: there is actually a petstore, it can be found there: http://viewvc.rubyforge.mmmultiworks.com/cgi/viewvc.cgi/?root=tw-commons Some guys [...]
Netbeans Ruby IDE – great tool getting even better !
2007/06/24I have spent last two days (and few evenings before) playing with Rails and using Netbeans Ruby IDE. What a great experience ! Unlike before, it is so much easier to have really good debugger that allows put breakpoints not only into the Ruby code in controllers and model – but even into the RHTML [...]
BOTD: Railscast
2007/06/19Today’s blog of the day is not really a blog, but a screencast. Dedicated to Ruby on Rails, the Railscast offers (as of today) 46 episodes of short, targeted practical advice on various aspects of Rails development. Unlike some other screencasts who try to record the screen action as MPEG movie, this one is perfectly [...]
Swing-ing back – to Netbeans
2007/06/11It has been quite some time since I used a Swing based Java application. Compared to beauty and close-to-native feeling of Eclipse based application, Swing just did not feel right – it looked differently and behaved a bit differently. For long time, my desktop was Swing-free (not counting the JDK demo). Not any more, though. [...]
Rails' ideas everywhere
2007/05/09Since I got through “Rails immersion”, I keep seeing the implementations of the same idea everywhere. Latest find is Subsonic, which implements Active Records in .NET space. Rather than writing more, see this screencast.
Best book for Ruby on Rails
2007/05/07During last two weeks I have been reading and playing a lot with Rails. Now I am in the state where I think I started to “get it” and understand how things work under the surface. Which means I am ready actually start using the framework for real work and become proficient as I get [...]
