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Rough RESTing on Rails

When I started using Ruby on Rails professionally a few months ago I hoped that Rails was first of a new breed of web application frameworks. After working with it for several months I have reached conclusion that it is not the paradigm shifting framework I had hoped for. Rather, it is just an incremental, [...]

Posted 23 January 2006 † Peter Williams § Software Development ‡ Comments (12) ° Also tagged: ,

Ruby Development Environment, Part 2

After finishing my previous post in response to Stephen O’Grady’s ruby tools question it occurred to me that I might be able to shed some light onto the other options that available. While I use Emacs some of the other developers here do not. I will try to give my impression of the couple of [...]

Posted 20 January 2006 † Peter Williams § Software Development ‡ Comments (9) ° Also tagged:

My Ruby Development Environment

Recently, Stephen O’Grady asked what is included in my Ruby tool set so I will attempt to answer that question, and describe why I choose these toolsI speak of this in the present tense because the set of tools I use is always evolving. Everyday I choose afresh the tools I am going to use.. [...]

Posted 20 January 2006 † Peter Williams § Software Development ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged:

Rails Require Weirdness

Can someone please explain why adding require ‘xmlmarkup’ to the beginning of application_helper.rb causes the file to not be loaded? Instead you get this error message in the log, ApplicationController: missing default helper path application_helper, as if the file simply did not exist. And, of course, a failure to render any pages that make use [...]

Posted 18 January 2006 † Peter Williams § Software Development ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: