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Watch the Sunset Over Waikiki at the Aloha on Rails Official Pau Hana Party

Aloha!

To really enjoy Hawaii, you have to slow down and admire the scenery. Some of the most breathtaking sites in the world can be found in the islands. From the Na Pali Coast of Kauai to the volcanic craters of the Big Island to the Sunsets of Waikiki, nature is on spectacular display every day.

Announcing the Rails Performance in the Cloud Roadshow!

As always, we’ve been busy busy busy at Engine Yard!

While the engineers have been working on code, and the support guys have been helping customers, the rest of us have been hard at work behind the scenes too. We’ve been brainstorming about different ways to get out there and help businesses build and maintain top-performing Rails applications. We’ve also been planning ways to continue evangelizing the Ruby projects and products we love to the Ruby community, and the programming community at large.

Oracle - old revision restored

Using Oracle with Rails

Creating a new application

To create a new Rails application that uses the Oracle adapter:

$ rails -d oracle my_rails_app

Next, edit config/database.yml with the proper settings.

database.yml example

development:
adapter: oracle
username: scott
password: tiger
database: database_name
timeout: 5000

The Future of Web Apps: More Web, Less App

I’ve been diving deep into C

Double Shot #541

I can only imagine how much work I could get done without four kids to ferry around.

94. vi editor

When you want to work on unix systems, you need to know the basics of using an editor like vi. This will help you to do basic tasks on remote server such as staging, production etc where you don't have your favorite IDE / text editor. This episode covers the basics required to use vi editor.

Here is the notes:

OT: How not to get rails consulting jobs

Trying to find people to work with is a hassle for companies. Here are five ways to make this even harder for them.

Don’t send them what they ask for

If they ask for a link to your github account, be sure to not send them one. If they ask for links to web apps that you’ve worked on before, only include a link to your homepage and your amazing blog.

Ref Names in URLs

We’ve got another URL cleanup for you: ref names in tree browsing URLs.

In The Old Days

You’d take this path:

RubyEnRails 2009

RubyEnRails 2009 goes down this 30/31 October in Amsterdam. Talks are in English and Dutch.

RubyEnRails has been all-volunteer for four years running, building on a history of sweet venues, good talks, and great company. It’s gradually grown from a local gathering to a full-fledged European event, and this year it’s also stepping up to fill the shoes of RailsConf EU.

Yehuda and I are speaking and will be mixing a potent batch of Rails 3 kool-aid. Please join us for a sip!

22 Technology Posts of Summer

We’ve been pretty busy on the blog this summer reviewing some of the interesting technologies that the Ruby and Rails worlds are working with. We tried to mix in some introductory materials and some more advanced ones. In case you missed them, we thought we’d do a quick review, particularly since we’ve had quite an increase in blog readership over the Summer.

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