Riding Rails

Rails (and family) on Lighthouse

Posted by rick April 15, 2008 @ 07:21 PM

Lighthouse “version 2” deployed yesterday, so I’m officially opening the Rails Lighthouse tracker up for business. Other spinoff projects such as Prototype and Capistrano have already made the switch. As David has mentioned, this means the current trac instance is deprecated. It will continue to stay in use for now until everyone has transitioned to Lighthouse.

We’re still figuring out the new workflow with git, Github, and Lighthouse. I’ll be working with the Logical Awesome folks to improve the Lighthouse/Github relationship. I’m also working with Tim Pope (author of the awesome git-trac tool) and others in #rails-contrib on bringing the same development tools to the new git infrastructure. Tim also wrote some best practices for contributing to Rails from git.

Posted in Launches, Tools | 18 comments

Passenger (mod_rails for Apache) launches

Posted by David April 11, 2008 @ 05:27 PM

The guys at Phusion has finally wrapped up Passenger, their mod_rails-like module for Apache. It’s looking like a great, easy solution for people who want a more PHP-like deployment story. Just dump your files in a directory setup with a vhost and off you go. Touch tmp/restart.txt and the application is restarted. Doesn’t get much simpler than that.

Posted in Documentation, Launches | 40 comments

Funny or Die handles big load on Rails

Posted by David March 12, 2008 @ 07:34 PM

Funny Or Die is pulling high G’s scaling their Rails site to handle 9GBps of video and 20MBps of compressed HTML traffic from the stunts of Will Ferrell and others. Their top video has been seen no less than 50 million times. Rock on, guys.

Posted in Launches | 18 comments

Sun launches JRuby on Rail site

Posted by David January 29, 2008 @ 05:45 PM

Sun’s Mediacast site is now running JRuby on Rails as their production stack. As Igor Minar tells, this is definitely still early days for the JRuby/Rails pair, but none the less they have a finished site running off sun.com. Congratulations, guys!

Posted in Launches | 5 comments

sMoney.EU

Posted by jamis August 07, 2007 @ 02:28 PM

The Czech Rails shop Skvělý.CZ has just announced the release of sMoney.EU, a free expense tracking application written in (of course) Ruby on Rails. It sports translations for several languages, too, and joins the growing ranks of Rails applications with localized interfaces. Great job, Robert and team!

Posted in Launches, Sightings | 11 comments

The Summer of Hack, 2007

Posted by Jeremy Kemper June 16, 2007 @ 01:33 AM

The hackfest is back! In sleek new form, the ‘fest runs monthly, starting now.

Without further ado: it’s on. Two weeks to go. Sprint!

Thanks to Working With Rails for making this an integral part of their site; thanks to O’Reilly for signing on as the first sponsor (first prize is a free pass to RailsConf Europe); and thanks to you for contributing the patches and bugfixes that keep Rails at the top of its game.

Go, go!

Posted in Horizon, Launches | 1 comment

Rails Application featured on Good Morning America

Posted by marcel February 15, 2007 @ 04:52 AM

Former AOL CEO Steve Case recently appeared on Good Morning America to talk about his new venture Revolution Health, a new health site built on Rails. Think next generation WebMD.

The Revolution Health team has been blogging their progress over at Revolution On Rails. InfoQ recently conducted an interview with the developers that discusses, among other things, their PluGems (it’s a plugin! it’s a gem!!) approach to sharing code across the multiple applications that make up Revolution Health.

Posted in Launches, Sightings | 9 comments

Hackfest 2007 and CD Baby sprint

Posted by Jeremy Kemper January 08, 2007 @ 02:36 PM

Ah, Portland. The open-source motherland. Pacific springtime beauty. RailsConf ‘07 nirvana.rb # => true and home of CD Baby, a little record store that digs Ruby and Rails.

We’re gearing up for a RailsConf hackfest at the Jupiter hotel just down the street and figured, heck, let’s start now! The top twenty Rails contributors between the new year and conference registration opening day will have a free conf pass and a room at the Jupiter specially reserved, CD Baby’s treat.

No kidding. Registration opens in a matter of weeks. Sprint!

Rails contribution is measured by real Trac activity weighted in favor of well-tested, committed patches but also accounts for new tickets and even comments. We’re joining forces with Working With Rails to track Rails contributions from the new year onward. To be included, mark yourself as a core contributor and give your Trac username in your account profile.

Have a Rails itch you’ve longed to scratch? Now’s the time! Happy hacking, and see you at RailsConf.

Update: Derek @ CD Baby’s announcement with more details.

Update: I announced contest close on the opening day of registration but Derek announced an earlier deadline on January 22nd. Sorry for the confusion! To draw a reasonable compromise, the contest closes tonight, January 24th, at midnight PST. (That’s 2007-01-25 08:00:00 UTC.) After the contest closes, we’ll continue scoring the backlog of patches submitted before the deadline then announce the winners this weekend.

So far, 258 participants have opened 443 tickets, submitted 501 patches, and made 2976 changes. Congratulations! And the leaderboard’s still tight with 17 hours to go..

Update: the contest has closed. The winners are..

Posted in Horizon, Launches | 14 comments

MenuTree helps you find food fast

Posted by David July 16, 2006 @ 06:00 PM

MenuTree is a new Rails application that seeks to make the search for new take-out places a more enjoyable experience. They just launched, so do help fill up the options in your area.

Posted in Launches | 18 comments

New Rails app: MOG.com

Posted by josh June 22, 2006 @ 04:57 AM

You may have seen MOG mentioned on BoingBoing or elsewhere earlier this week. It's the new social networking site that lets music lovers connect based on what they're into, keep a blog about their musical discoveries, and find new things to appreciate based on their friends' recommendations. It even has this MOG-O-MATIC plugin for iTunes so that it can figure out what you listen to without you having to tell it. Even if you don't have your music tagged.

That's all pretty cool, but for the readers of this blog, the really cool part is that MOG is written entirely in Ruby on Rails. The MOG software is the creation of Lucas Carlson, Dave Fayram, and Joshua Sierles. It's a nice piece of work, serving up 1.5M requests per day using Pound, Mongrel and memcached, and they are still tuning it for performance. The app also includes an XML-RPC interface used by the plugin (though Dave says now he thinks REST might have been a better way to go).

So tune your internet dial to mog.com and take a listen...

Posted in Launches, Sightings | 13 comments

Shopify is open for business

Posted by David June 05, 2006 @ 09:39 PM

We’re lagging the official announcement by a fair margin, but that won’t hold back our official word of congratulations for Jaded Pixel as they’ve launched Shopify. It’s instant-on stores that don’t smell like a candy bar left in your pocket in the mid-90’ies. Complete with its own templating engine, Shopify makes it silly easy to create great looking stores that doesn’t just follow a cookie-cutter format.

In Rails circles, Jaded Pixel is mostly known as the company starring Rails Core developer Tobias Lütke. The team has already been sharing a great many extractions from the work of Shopify. So if you’ve played with the template engine Liquid or installed the forum-system Opinion, you’ve been touched by Shopify (now isn’t that heart warming!).

Once again, major props to Tobi and crew for finally delivering on this massive undertaking.

Posted in Launches | 26 comments

New Rails App: RightCart.com

Posted by josh June 02, 2006 @ 08:43 PM

Back in January I took the Pragmatic Rails Studio along with some guys named Dylan Stamat and Jonathan Siegel. Earlier this week they announced a brand new internet application: RightCart.com. By the way, the two of them wrote it in Ruby on Rails in just six weeks!

RightCart is "Shopping 2.0". It lets you embed a shopping cart on any web page with just three lines of HTML and JavaScript. The RightCart service manages your customer's shopping cart contents for you, so integrating shopping capabilities into your website is trivial. They take care of everything from your catalog to payment processing. You can sell your own stuff and pay them a small percentage. You can also sell stuff from a shared catalog (with over a million items already) and get a 1% commission on the sale.

And like all good Web 2.0 companies, RightCart has a blog (State of the Cart) to share news about their business and services.

Congratulations to Dylan and Jonathan on their product launch!

Posted in Launches, Sightings | 32 comments

Sam Stephenson gets a blog

Posted by marcel May 23, 2006 @ 05:18 PM

Rails core member, 37signaler and Prototype author Sam Stephenson has put up a blog over at sam.conio.net.

He starts off by sharing some of his plans for Prototype 2.0 with Better inheritance for Prototype. Juicy tidbit: You might not have known that Justin Palmer is working on a Prototype book for the Pragmatic Programmers.

You can grab Sam’s RSS feed here.

Posted in Launches, Sightings | 5 comments

Guide: Environments in Rails 1.1

Posted by marcel May 22, 2006 @ 12:03 PM

As mentioned last week, Kevin Clark is taking your suggestions and developing weekly guides that cover the ins and outs of Rails.

He’s delivered on his first guide: Environments in Rails 1.1. The accompaying Cheat Sheet is particularly noteworthy. It lists all the various configuration options available to you, with a brief description of the purpose they serve.

To have your say on what Kevin covers next, send him your suggestion at kevin dot clark at gmail dot com with [idea] in the subject.

Posted in Documentation, Launches | 2 comments

Fluxiom has launched

Posted by marcel April 20, 2006 @ 04:31 PM

The wait is over for the next killer Rails application. Fluxiom has launched! Digital asset management just got a lot sexier.

You may have seen its demo video which has been floating around since last December. Developed by wollzelle with none other than Thomas Fuchs, aka Mr. Scriptaculous, at the helm, it brings a native desktop app feel to your web browser. Those building Rails applications these days may be familiar with all the swanky effects Thomas has been putting together. Turns out he’s had a few tricks up his sleeve. Fluxiom not only helps collect, manage and access your assets, it does it with style.

Fluxiom provides four subscription levels, all of which offer a free 30 day trial. You can check out the video and then head over to the sign up page.

We await a bevy of great extractions Thomas ;)