José Valim is one of the newest members of the Rails core team. Apart from this he has also developed some good gems, Devise, Responders, and SimpleForm, that I use for almost every project. And now he has written a book, a really good book, about advanced Rails programming techniques, called Crafting Rails Applications. The [...]

If you ask a Ruby programmer why he is using Ruby, you will probably get several answers like: It is dynamic. I allows me too keep my code DRY. I get results faster. Aside from all these statements, there is one statement that almost always comes up. I use Ruby because it makes me happy! [...]

Do you remember the time before 9/11 when you could arrive to the airport 10 minutes before the plane’s departure and just walk on to the plane. Now, you have to arrive at least an hour before the plane departs and you have to strip to get through a security. The security is just for [...]

I recently was contacted to implement an ASP.NET MVC application and I saw this as a great opportunity to compare it with Rails3. What immediately strikes you when you start with ASP.NET MVC is how similar it is to Rails. No one can steal ideas like Microsoft! Rails ASP.NET MVC Purpose (if not obvious) /app/models [...]