06.06.08
Railsconf has_many :macs
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Last week I attended my first Railsconf in Portland, OR. It was a great conference full of incredibly charged up and talented people and was unlike any conference I have ever attended; people actually wanted to be there. Since I am relatively ne w to the Rails and Ruby communities I had the unique perspective of looking from the outside in. There are a lot of traits, personality types, and trends I noticed about the Rails community. For one, everyone seemed to love what they do. We are talking about passion for one's work here. There were more entrepreneurs, intellectuals, creatives, and pragmatists than I could shake a stick at. Technorati Profile Read More..
01.30.08
Dragged Onto the Train Kicking and Screaming: Rails 2.0
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The rails team recently released version 2.0 as many of you know, and in it are a lot of neat features and simplifications. Having been developing RESTful applications for the better part of the last year I welcome the new integration, but when 2.0 dropped I was mid-project on a few different apps and didn't want to deal with upgrading. Well, as luck would have it, after a day of banging my head against the wall I ended up having to stick with Rails 2.0 on my new mediatemple (dv) server account, forcing me to make my apps 2.0+ compliant. Read More..
