David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), creator and one of the core developers of Ruby on Rails, recently posted an announcement that version 1.5 of the TextMate editor has been released. In closing, he says: “Oh, and if you haven’t switched yet, you can swing by Apple and pickup a Mac on the way to TextMate. It’s not now, nor ever, going Windows.” In the comments following the article, hilarity ensues.
Be they trolls or simply misguided folk, the FUD stops here. For those who like reading rants, I invite you to continue.
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Posted at 12:17 PM PST with these tags: rails, rant
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While we normally resist the temptation to publish the year-end retrospectives that appear to be in vogue around this time of year, it would be negligent not to note that 2005 brought some very significant software advancements. If you haven’t checked them out already, perhaps you should.
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Posted at 10:02 AM PST with these tags: darwinports, rails, postgresql, lighttpd, apache
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RadRails is an integrated development environment (IDE) for Ruby on Rails, with the initial RadRails 0.1 release emerging only a few days ago. A customized version of the Java-based Eclipse IDE, RadRails appears to a promising cross-platform tool for managing the development of Rails web applications. The release of version 0.2 is imminent and will hopefully be accompanied by more extensive documentation.
Posted at 2:28 PM PDT with these tags: rails, web
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The Locomotive project provides a Mac OS X package for easy installation of Ruby on Rails, lighttpd, FastCGI, and other supporting libraries and database drivers. The roadmap indicates that while the current release is mainly intended for use with SQLite, future versions will include better support for PostgreSQL and MySQL.
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Posted at 6:30 AM PDT with these tags: rails, mac, web
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