Well, I haven’t given up on the mission to determine how to capture a screenshot of the login screen in Mac OS X. Read more here. In fact, I’ve successfully used SSH from Windows running i...

Ruby is used extensively in Web applications thanks to Ruby on Rails. But you can also develop Windows applications using Ruby. Interestingly the Windows API support is part of the standard installati...

A brand new Rails/Merb app you put together over a weekend, a pack of Mongrels, a reverse proxy (like Nginx), and you're up and running. Well, almost, what about that one request that tends to run for...

I just thought I’d post about a few things that you should be doing with your forms and also a few things I just like to do. Use Labels I still don’t understand why there are a load of peo...

After several weeks of git usage, I’ve developed a nice workflow. First, we’ll start with working with several svn branches via git. Working with svn branches via git Assuming you’ve...

It's all the rage these days to have timestamps displayed in words to indicate how long ago some event occurred. You know something like "less than a minute ago" or "about 2 months ago", etc. You'll s...

Rails 2.1 Release Candidate 1 was just released! In this episode I will show you how to install it into your Rails project.

Aún no hay anuncio oficial pero DHH nos informa vía Twitter que ya ha sido marcada la versión RC1 de Rails 2.1 y que puede ser descargada.

To install the great Mod_Rails on Gentoo linux it's as easy as 4 steps. Since you are Gentoo user, i don't need to go to details. You know what you doing. ;) 1. Recompile Apache non-threaded add th...

Click to Globalize has been rewrited, in order to use all instance methods of the JavaScript class, instead of class methods. I also fixed some tiny issues: The form_authentication_token method is ...

Este artículo es una traducción de Getting Started with Ruby on Rails hecha por mi. El artículo original fue escrito por Dan Benjamin en A List Apart If this translation breaks some copyright and/o...

In this week’s Rails TakeFive, we’ll take a slight departure and offer up a podcast interview with James Cox, founder of smokeclouds, a UK-based Ruby on Rails and scalability consultancy...

Hours ago, David Heinemeier Hansson announced informally on Twitter: Rails 2.1 RC1 has been tagged, the gems are on the beta server, official announcement shortly. But no need holding you back from t...

Hey all, just wanted to let you know I’m going to be jabbering live in the Cincinnati and Cleveland areas this week. First stop, there is a new Architecture specific special interest group start...

Como ya os comenté hace tiempo hemos estado preparado una nueva versión de Galicia Global (algo así como una 2.0) para conmemorar la edición 2008 del día de Internet y las letras gallegas. Lo...

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that we are currently developing a new language named Sapphire. Sapphire is not a replacement for Ruby, it's not a ‘fork' of Ruby. As a company we remain d...

Sometimes a class does too much. It's used everywhere, does everything, knows all about the nasty internals of all the other classes, and every time you change anything in the application it has to ...