General

Rails 3 Bugmash

RailsBridge has organized a Rails 3 Bugmash on January 16th and 17th. The idea is to try and upgrade your apps and favourite plugins/gems to work with Rails 3 and make the upgrade path as smooth as possible for everyone else by documenting the process and fixing the bugs you encounter. Rails core team and others will be around in #railsbridge to help out the participants during the bugmash. Check the RailsBridge announcement for more details.

"And your Mom, too." Ruby-talk best practices.

Mailing lists (and bulletin boards and forums and so on) are important parts of becoming a better developers. Even the best programmers need help, and a mailing list such as ruby-talk (or the Usenet version, comp.lang.ruby) is the traditional place to go.

Mailing lists are also a good place to get better at your craft; watch the list, and try to answer questions. Think of it as pop quizzes at Ruby U.

Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) Memory Management

I’ve been using Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) for about a month to run a production and staging machine with a Ruby on Rails app. So far things have been going really well. Installation was smooth and it’s been really peppy.

folder_for, A Controller DSL

Over the last year or so, I’ve spoken at a number of meetings and conferences (including The Rails Edge and RailsConf) about view layer concerns, and on several occasions have given a folder interface example when speaking about controller domain specific languages. Since I’ve received several requests, here’s some information on the example.

First of all, here’s the source (Sorry, this file has gone missing since this article was written).

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