Among the vast diversity of applications written in Rails, you’ll find many that meet personal or business needs. A few go for higher goals, addressing the needs of less fortunate people worldwide.
After several months of development, we have finally taken the wraps off the BuildingWebApps site!
During the dozen or so years I ran the Microprocessor Forum conference, I presented hundreds of seminars on microprocessors and PC technology. I enjoy teaching, and I’ve missed this aspect of that business.
Today I began my podcasting career with the publication of the first episode of Learning Rails. It’s been a lot of fun pulling this together—and a lot more work than I anticipated. I’m looking forward to recording future episodes when I’m not learning the audio software and assembling the web pages and the RSS feed infrastructure at the same time.
With all the “how to build an application in Rails” books that have come out this year, do we need more? Yes!
There’s a lot of information about Ruby on Rails scattered around the net, but it is indeed scattered. SoftwareDeveloper.com has published a useful set of links in an article titled 74 Quality Ruby on Rails Resources. It’s far from comprehensive, but it’s a pretty good start.
When you’re dealing with personal or otherwise confidential information, you want to know that snoops can’t listen in on your communications, and that you’re communicating with who you think. On the web, SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard way to do this.
Last week I spent three days at the Rails Edge conference. This was a great event for learning about the latest developments in Ruby on Rails and meeting with some of the leading folks from that community.
Update: I published this quick list some time ago, and I’ve noticed it continues to get a fair amount of traffic. It is woefully incomplete, and new sites are being added daily. There’s a great site that is devoted to nothing but listing other Rails sites, and I highly recommend it as a superior alternative to this list: HappyCodr.
I’m currently at the Rails Edge conference, an interesting gathering of about 100 Ruby on Rails aficionados, newbies, and everything in between, in Denver. I’m excited about this framework and plan to use it for my future web development work.