I was supposed to be at RailsConf this year covering the event for InfoQ , but I am not there. Sometimes higher priorities overtake the things we would like to do and well, I am home. One of the announcements I thought might be coming at the event was the release of Ruby on Rails 2.1 and sure enough...

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I think just about everyone in the software development community at least knows what Ruby on Rails is, so I won't do into it here. There is some real exciting things going on in the Ruby community and in particular, Ruby on Rails running on more than one implementation of Ruby. Rails has been running...

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I have been a happy Ruby in Steel user for quite a while now and have built a bit of a rapport with Huw Collingbourne, co-founder of SapphireSteel Software , the developers of Ruby in Steel. On Monday, SapphireSteel Software released a new version of Ruby in Steel, version 1.2 . This version includes...

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Ruby on Rails has been around for a few years now and has become a hugely popular web development framework, but not on Windows and Internet Information Server (IIS). Rails has run on Linux and Max OSX almost exclusively, until recently. The Ruby on Rails Wiki has a very good article on setting up Ruby...

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I have a few Ruby on Rails applications I maintain outside of the commercial work I do. These applications are important to me but I have been very bad at keeping them in any source control until today. I use RailsPlayground with a VPS for my personal hosting and I have been very happy with the hosting...

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It's Saturday night here in Orlando, FL and I just finished listening to Obie Fernandez give the final keynote of a busy two days of talks about Ruby and Ruby on Rails development. The conference was very good, it was hard to believe it was the first time the Rails for All folks put in a conference like...

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I am leaving for my flight to Orlando tonight to attend the sold out regional Ruby and Rails conference, acts_as_conference . The conference is the first time it has been put on and hopefully it will carry on in future years. The lineup of speakers looks great and it should be a good time. I interviewed...

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I decided to start getting more involved in the Ruby and Ruby on Rails conferences this year and found a new conference to get it started, the acts_as_conference , February 8-9 in Orlando. I blogged about this conference recently and had the opportunity to interview the conference organizer, Robert Dempsey...

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I ran across a really good tutorial over at Softies on Rails called " Freezing Your Rails Application ", which details what is means to freeze Rails, how-to do it and other great information: What Freezing Rails Is? Freeze to a particular Rails Version Freeze to Edge Rails Unfreezing It is great for...

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In case anyone has missed the announcement of the upcoming acts_as_conference conference in Orlando, Fl on February 8-9, 2008, act now before it's sold out . The best part is the conference only costs $100.00. The conference is a two-day Ruby on Rails conference with a great list of speakers and sessions...

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