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Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers

Daniel Butler — Wed, 03 May 2006 09:41:00 -0400

David A. Black is releasing a new book entitled Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers, which will help you take your Ruby skills to the next level of zen while working within the Rails framework. He writes, ”Ruby for Rails helps Rails developers achieve Ruby mastery. Each chapter deepens your Ruby knowledge and shows you how it connects to Rails. You’ll gain confidence working with objects and classes and learn how to leverage Ruby’s elegant, expressive syntax for Rails application power. And you’ll become a better Rails developer through a deep understanding of the design of Rails itself and how to take advantage of it.”

Read on for a short review.

Book Home Page at Manning Publications
Order Book from Amazon.com

Camping 1.4 Released

Daniel Butler — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:28:00 -0400

Camping is a micro—nay! nano— development framework for web-connected applications, like blogs, to do lists, or other teeny utilities. Version 1.4 is out, and why the lucky stiff nourishes our collective intellect with this:

The DevTower Plugin

Daniel Butler — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:36:00 -0400

DevTower is “used to synchronize the development of Ruby On Rails applications with developers working simultaniously on multiple systems with Subversion.” It enforces certain group-development practices which help protect your schema and data from renegade developers or commit mistakes.

ISO 8601 Dates in Ruby on Rails

Daniel Butler — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:26:00 -0400

If you would like ISO 8601 time and date formatting by default in your Ruby on Rails application, add the following code to your environment.rb file:

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Time::Conversions::DATE_  
  FORMATS.update(:default => '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')  
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Date::Conversions::DATE_    
  FORMATS.update(:default => '%Y-%m-%d')