Chris Wanstrath takes a look at how to get sexier looking migrations (above) in Rails. If you’re sick of endless lines of “t.column”, check it out. Read More

Image credited to Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas takes a stroll through the land of REST and looks at how the future of Rails applications could be in having the whole ‘backend’ REST accessible with a HTML presentation filter sitting in front of it for browser access. It’s a very cogent article, and I’m all for popularizing the term “RADAR” to refer to the types of applications Dave talks about. Let’s use it.

Update: Peter James came to some very similar conclusions back in March 2005. Cool! Read More

“Why Ruby On Rails?” was a presentation made by Gregg Pollack at the Orlando Ruby Users Group on March 15, and now you can watch it online. Gregg is a great presenter and moves through a lot of stuff really quickly. The first half of the presentation focuses on agility, agile development, and how agile development changes the way you need to interact with clients, and the second half gets into the technical Rails side of things. A good watch, and especially good to recommend to management types who, perhaps, aren’t too familiar with Rails and agility yet. Read More