Ryan Raaum has just released a new version of Locomotive. It’s a collection of all the necessary dependencies for running Ruby on Rails on OS X and it ships with a nice controlling GUI for starting and stopping your applications.
Two of the frequent dependencies for Rails applications, RedCloth and Rake, both have problems in their latest releases. So you want to install the version just behind the latest. Install RedCloth 3.0.3 and Rake 0.5.4. Hopefully we can get the problems sorted out quickly.
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 8) do
create_table "authors" do |t|
t.column "name", :string
t.column "ip", :string
t.column "book_id", :integer
end
create_table "books" do |t|
t.column "name", :string
t.column "url_name", :string
t.column "existing_page_titles", :text
t.column "premiere", :integer, :limit => 1, :default => "0"
end
create_table "pages" do |t|
t.column "title", :string
t.column "book_id", :integer
t.column "created_at", :datetime
t.column "updated_at", :datetime
end
create_table "versions" do |t|
t.column "page_id", :integer
t.column "author_id", :integer
t.column "created_at", :datetime
t.column "body", :text
t.column "book_id", :integer
end
end
The lighttpd team is well underway to remove the last major barrier for widespread adoption: File upload handling. Jan has written about the improved approach to file uploads that’ll buffer to disk instead of keep it all in memory. We’re eagerly awaiting its arrival in 1.4.5.
Rails has converged enough in both code, culture, and ambition to expand the commit team to include all members of the Rails core team that have been active for at least six months. The entire list of committers is as follows (new members in italic):
Congratulations to the eight “newcomers”. Bask in the glory of being a Rails committer!
Garret Dimon has a great explanation for why .NET is no longer his preferred tool for web development and why Ruby on Rails is. On Best Practices, he writes:
Rails takes all of the things you should be doing, and consolidates it into one very elegant framework. Directory structure, unit testing, functional testing, performance testing, database build scripts, MVC separation, validation, no XML configuration files, and more. It’s all there, and it all plays together nicely. This is my favorite aspect.
The Burton Group survey of Rails origin has concluded and the results are in: Half the Railers that responded came from PHP, one third comes from Java. A third of the 410 respondents even use Rails in “mission critical” applications. Three quarters consider Rails their primary web development tool.
Jonathan have written a tutorial for getting up and running with CIA. CIA is a continuous-integration server that I threw together really quickly to please my own needs for running tests when checkins occur. It’s not intended to be a general-purpose solution, like DamageControl, but rather a narrow and slim alternative if you’re on a Rails/Subversion combination anyway.
It’s still only available from Subversion and its ugly as sin, but it’s only 66 lines of code, so you can read and understand it all in 10 minutes tops. Do check it out and give it some love, but let your patches be mindful of its Less Software intentions.
_why has posted the mind bender of the week: RailsFS. With this nifty layer on top of FuseFS, you get to interact with your Active Record-driven domain model through the file system. The individual records open up as YAML-documents that you can interact with and the changes are persisted. Crazy, sexy, cool!
The Burton Group is in the final stages of their report to that elusive group of Fortune 500 CxOs and would like to top it off with some statistics on the background of Rails developers. So please, do take the 15 seconds to answer three questions about how you came into Rails.