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My article Tips for Optimizing Rails on Oracle has been published on the Oracle Technology Network site! I can’t say how much i liked working on this.
I tried to synthesize in one place all that needs to be known to make the best from the two technologies and explained all of the tips in oracle-specific [...]

I feel that yesterday was a BIG day for Rails. To say it with the words of ThoughtWorker Jon Tirsen:

We had a problem…and the solution is JRuby.

ThoughtWorks will adopt jruby as the deploy platform for their Mingle enterprise project management platform.

The problem was that most of their clients have well established IT infrastructures which cannot [...]

I got a nice easter present yesterday: The Typer  got reviewed on the Rails App Week by Darren at The Web2.0 Show
They nailed it right:  it’s simple by purpose, and i’d dare to say that it has been a big experiment for me in building a clean and simple interface that makes sense for the [...]

ok… saying the title is even longer than typing the command:

svnrails –url ./repos/my_app/trunk my_app

this will make sure you have a functional empty rails application in your local repository that is it will:

create a my_app rails application
import the application into repository
checkout the application from svn
remvoe and ignore the log and tmp files
rename the database.yml file

nice and [...]

A few days ago I discovered the query_analyzer plugin in a comment on the last article of The Rails Way series. It allows you to have the plans for the queries used in your application directly in the log file and this is invaluable when trying to to optimize the database for you shiny new [...]

I read today the humanized blog and I find it’s (very) true what Aza Raskin wrote in Monolog Boxes and Transparent Messages: the best interace should aim to minimize the interruptions in what the user is doing.
When you are “in the zone”, especially when writing or designinig or programming, any interruption in your flow of [...]

I like to use “simple” text editors rather then word processors to write, I use TextMate on OSX and TextPad on Windows, adopting the OPML editor when i need to support and track structure. But when I saw Writeroom about a month ago I was struck with its beautiful design and essential feature set, I [...]

Some very interesting rails tools fro the seesaw crew.

It seems that the River of News model for aggregators is getting new attention. Humanized Reader got great reviews from Steve Rubel and 37signals and they deserve all of it: their solution is particularly well designed (even if i feel it being too much blog like…) and the dynamic scroll is awesome.
This renforces my own [...]

I just found that in Ruby on Rails there is a “./script/console” script which lets you access all the application from a consol prompt, in this way you can manipulate all of your objects and do all sort of things and i find it really useful specially when you need to debug some nasty [...]