As someone who, like many here, depends on Rails for my job, I’m worried about the long term effects of the last week on Rails. I’m not going to discuss those changes at Basecamp but I want to discuss my concerns about what this means for Rails itself. I... (more…)

Master-slave replication for PostgreSQL (postgres) database with Ruby on Rails on Heroku... (more…)

Ruby on Rails CMS. Cosmic JS makes it easy to add dynamic content to your Ruby on Rails apps. (more…)

I’m proud to announce the public release of Optimism, a new Ruby on Rails gem that makes it easy to add realtime validation error messages to your applications. When a model validation error prevents an update from succeeding, Optimism builds a... | least... (more…)

I was recently built a simple Wiki app for work that required markdown parsing. To get this going I needed to use html-pipeline to parse the content of the articles and display markdown. First thing, this post assumes you have an Article model or some Po... (more…)