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4AM continues to be my quietly productive time this week.
- Automatic Rails at Slicehost - Setup script from FiveRuns.
- This Week in Rails - The latest goings-on around the community. I was tickled to see that I got mentioned.
- Rails is for Developers, Django is for Designers, Part 1 - Wow, flamebait. (Though the author says that’s not his intent).
OK, now I have enough work for the month. Time to buckle down and get it done.
- DDL Transactions - Now supported in edge Rails for much safer migrations. Best reason I’ve seen yet to switch away from MySQL (where they are not supported).
- Django 1.0 Released - The official announcement. And here’s a handy cheat sheet.
- Keeping a git fork in synch with the forked repo - I’ve had to hunt this down too many times. Time to blog it.
- railsdoc - My first experiment with building a Ubiquity command.
Things appear to be settling out on the “underemployed” side.
- Hobo 0.8 Released - Still moving on towards a 1.0 release.
- Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails - Forthcoming from Pragmatic Press.
- Building the Never Blocking Rails, Making Rails 12x Faster - At least, for some database-bounded operations.
- Changeset 8961 - The tag for Django 1.0 Final. Congratulations to the Django team.
Thanks to the FiveRuns folks for featuring me in their TakeFive interview series, and welcome to new readers.
- Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS - The Easy Way - Detailed instructions. With EBS, AWS is reaching some sort of tipping point.
- How to Fix your Rails Helpers - Some suggestions on refactoring.
- WICE Assignment Lists - Multi-select listbox interface for HABTM relations in Rails.
- Scout Checks in on Passenger - I’ve been looking for a Passenger-aware Rails monitoring solution. Not sure I’m ready to pay for Scout, though. (via RubyFlow)
- rspec_validations_expectations gem released - Check that your models contain the validations you want, without hitting the database to test Rails-generated code.
- DoS Vulnerability in REXML - Time to patch your Rails applications.
- Ruby Amazon E-Commerce REST Service API (amazon-ecs) - I used this to hook up some book stuff on my slowly-rebuilding personal site. It worked well.
- Maatkit - A batch of low-level MySQL tools.
- Everyday git With 20 Commands or So - The basics, though you don’t even need to memorize this much to get started.
- ZiYa - Spiffy SWF-based charting gem. Now at version 2.
When was the last time you wrote a web app that didn’t depend on some service or site that’s ultimately out of your control?
- Django 1.0 Alpha Released - The folks on the other side of the fence continue to make good progress.
- RedCloth 4.0 Released - Major update to this text-processing library.
- RailsDB - Rails-based database-management tool. Version 0.3 was just released.
There are times that I wish our kids would learn to sleep in.
- Get Started with Django - Webmonkey has the goods.
- Pretty Blocks in Rails Views - Some ways to make your code more elegant.
- ActionWebService is Back - And updated for Rails 2.1.0.
- Cornerstone - New Subversion UI for OS X. (via TUAW)
Losing internet for a day was good for a day off. Not the day off I wanted to take, I fear.
- New YSlow With Firefox 3 Support - A welcome addition to the debugging tools available for FF3.
- Announcing the Django Software Foundation - A nice boost for the framework I didn’t quite go with.
Sorry about all the RSS goofiness. I managed to complete bork the site and had to redo a batch of things, which didn’t do the feeds any good. Not that I’ve had much luck tracking down the original issue.
- Rails vs. Django - There’s a link here to a Django screencast that I probably should find the time to watch, though overall it confirms my suspicion that the two frameworks are largely equivalent in terms of productivity.
- Softies on Rails Interviews: Menuism - It’s certainly nice for me to read at this point stories of people who walked away from Microsoft to do Rails development.
- File Upload Fu - Mike Clark discusses handling image file uploads in a Rails app.
- Lighthouse - Rails issue tracking app from the Mephisto creators, coming soon.
- TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac - Book from Pragmatic Bookshelf, now released. If I did want to become a TextMate expert, this would probably be a good investment.
- Capistrano 1.4.1 - A minor update to the deployment utility that goes along with Rails.
- Our ActiveRecord book …and YOU! - There’s a book all about ActiveRecord coming. You can go make suggestions about what you’d like to see covered.
Of course, Rails isn’t the only RAD framework for Web development in town, as I was reminded by reading A Rails/Django Comparison and Constructive reasons to use Django instead of Rails . I’ll probably poke at Django a bit, but frankly, Python makes my head hurt. Well, so does Ruby, but Python makes my head hurt more.
