Ruby-on-Rails

Derek Sivers, quite the Rails champion when he decided to rebuild his CD Baby e-commerce site using Rails two years ago, has now admitted defeat. After two years of wrestling with Rails while building the new site, Sivers along with coder Jeremy Kemper, decided to face up to reality. Kemper went off to 37signals and Sivers rebuilt the entire site in PHP in just two months. As such, Slashdot is jumping on the bandwagon by telling developers to "think again" about using Rails in future.

Nakul Aggarwal and Ritesh Arora have put together a concise, to the point, Ruby on Rails Security Guide that looks at how to tackle security issues in your authentication system, models, controllers, views, and elsewhere. Lots of links, lots of tips, and a must-read for anyone who's not feeling 100% confident in the security of their Rails app.

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Remember the infamous "Ruby on Rails Vs" videos by the guys at RailsEnvy.com that were such a hit at RailsConf? Well they're back with two more..

Alex Young, a UK-based Rails developer, has put together a great guide that looks at the different development patterns used in Rails plugins and helps you develop well-designed plugins of your own.

Charlie Savage, author of ruby-prof, recently baked in support for Rails to ruby-prof, so now it's possible to profile your Rails application, see where the delays are, and work on improving performance.

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This morning, Pete Forde of Unspace prodded me to write about a new book, "Beginning Rails" by Jeffrey Allan Hardy and Cloves Carneiro Jr. (with Hampton Catlin). And, when I receive my copy from Apress, I will be reviewing it here. Of more immediate interest to me, however, was a note that David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby of Rails, had denied the authors the right to use the Rails logo on the front of their book:

Each month I do a round-up of the new jobs on the Ruby Inside job board. June was a slim month with only two new jobs. Both are pretty good though!