• RailsTips

Links

General Rails Stuff

• Faster Testing with Rails 1.0

• Upgrading to Rails 1.0

• NamedRoutes in Ruby on Rails

• A Guide to Testing the Rails

As Seen on the Rails Mailing List

• Rails Mailing List

• ActiveRecord outside Rails

• OpenLaszlo - Platform for rich client applications

Deployment

• Application Deployment with Rails

• Rails: Sandbox, Develop, and Deploy

• Installing Ruby on Rails with Lighttpd and MySQL on Fedora Core 4

• SwitchTower

PDF

• Rails PDF Plugin

• PDF::Writer for Ruby

Ruby

• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Other

• Loud Thinking - David Heinemeier Hansson's blog

• mir.aculo.us blog

• Drip: IE Leak Detector - For AJAX hackers

• Rails on Windows Server 2003 with IIS 6.0

• AJAX on Rails

• Sparklines Graph Library for Ruby

• MonoRail - Action Pack for .NET

• YAML's Merge Key

Bugs

#1462: Default Rakefile causes an error when using a password containing only numbers with PostgreSQL

Getting Started

I recently started experimenting with Ruby on Rails. It's totally awesome. I've also been reading the beta version of Agile Web Development with Rails (errata) which is even more totally awesome.

Useful Utilities

• DBVisualizer - I was recently looking for a tool that would allow me to visualise a PostgreSQL database. DBVisualizer does that and much more. This is an extremely useful application and a very good example of what a Java application should look like.

Code

• RailsTips/Sessions - Store session information in your PostgreSQL database

• RailsTips/FileUpload - Upload files that are stored on the file system instead of in the database

• RailsTips/JumpBack - Send the user further back than their previous page

Editors

Emacs with ruby-mode

Usable.

KDevelop

KDevelop in Fedora Core 4 has a very nice Ruby mode. I'm currently using this for my development.

jEdit

jEdit also looks very promising. I haven't used this myself though.

Rails with Google Web Accelerator

According to Google Web Accelerator considered overzealous, there are some problems when Google Web Accelerator (GWA) starts prefetching all kinds of nasty stuff from your web application.

Refer to How to show Google's Web Accelerator the door in Rails for some code to prevent this from happening. Taking the unsafe GETs out of Rails introduces a new way of doing things with HTTP POST. Ruby on Rails Ticket #1269 is where people are working on another fix. More at I don't GET the problem.

Also read Google Web Accelerator: Hey, not so fast - an alert for web app designers.

This problem is discussed in section 16.9 (The Problem With GET Requests) of the Beta2 version of the Rails book.