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Railers Need To Stop Not Caring About The Database
In other news, most Rails apps are slow because the developers are ignorant of database basics. Not slamming the blog's author, but it is a good example of how easy it is to mess up a Rails application's performance by something simple like not creating indices in your database.
RapidWeaver 4 Preview
Exclusive preview: RapidWeaver matures with version 4. Looks like most changes to RapidWeaver will be on a UI level. But that's okay, because RapidWeaver is brilliant already! The article includes a link to the sign-up page for a private beta.
Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails
Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails. A List Apart on our favourite web development framework.
formtastic
formtastic "is a Rails FormBuilder DSL (with some other goodies) to make it far easier to create beautiful, semantically rich, syntactically awesome, readily stylable and wonderfully accessible HTML forms in your Rails applications."
StripAttributes
StripAttributes is one of the quietest, smallest, but at the same time most useful Rails plugin I've seen recently, letting you specify ActiveRecord model attributes that will automatically get stripped of their leading and trailing whitespace, which without this plugin you'd have to do manually.
GitHub Officially Launches
GitHub Officially Launches. I'm currently in the process of switching from SVN to git, trying to wrap my head around all the things git does differently. It's been a rough ride, but I'm starting to really enjoy it. GitHub, of course, is a great place to start playing around with git.
Storage Space, The Final Frontier
Amazon Web Services Blog: Storage Space, The Final Frontier. Exciting and significant stuff. Create persistent volumes on S3 and mount them in your EC2 instances. Use them for file storage, EC2 backups, and of course data file space for your relational database. Together with the recently announced fixed IP addresses for EC2 instances, this stuff is becoming really hot.
Why I think Ruby on Rails is an ideal web development environment
Why I think Ruby on Rails is an ideal web development environment. Andy Jeffries, PHP developer, on Ruby on Rails. Includes a mention of the recently released Phusion Passenger that has been making waves, making the deployment of Rails applications a zero-configuration game.
Why mod_rails is great for light-duty Rails apps
Why mod_rails is great for light-duty Rails apps at Pervasive Code is an in-depth look at Phusion Passenger aka mod_rails' performance and memory footprint.
HAML suggestion
This is my suggestion on how to improve the excellent HAML's syntax in order to fight the currently required suggest "!" do or = "#{foo}!" madness. Nathan is considering it. Yay!
Seed Fu: Simple Seed Data for Rails
Seed Fu: Simple Seed Data for Rails. I was just looking for something like that today. With people moving away from fixtures for their automated tests and now this providing a better way to reset your application to an initial default state, are fixtures still needed at all?