Software As She’s Developed

It’s good to hear Rails 1.2 is all about embracing REST. Working with Ajax has helped me really appreciate the benefits of REST, and it all fits in with the Rails mindset quite nicely. Right now, we have URLs like /user/update/5 whereas REST would have it as /user/5 and then POST in the details - the nature of the […]

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Rails' layout mechanism follows the standard pattern embodied in Sun's J2EE patterns and familiar to users of Struts and other frameworks. The page template outputs the main content, and it's automatically wrapped by a generic template (as opposed to the earlier SSI-style paradigm, where each page manually includes headers, footers, etc.). There's always a complication [...]

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If you've heard DHH or other Rails enthusiasts introducing Rails, they'll often point to the neat inflection module, which maps back and forth between plurals and singular forms, among other things. Even if not the most killer thing about Rails, it's an excellent introductory topic as it quickly conveys the humane nature of the Rails [...]

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If there's one certainty in this industry, it's the ongoing hilarity of job ads. David Heinemeier Hansson found a job ad that mentions "Rails" in the same breath as "enterprise" and "whitepaper", and "struts" in the same breath as "latest and greatest": Should have ideally 5 years experience with all of the latest [...]

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