Rails News & Articles

Hot on the heels of other recent platform-as-a-service launches, VMware (news, site) has announced its own PaaS offering, called Cloud Foundry. The open-source cloud platform aims to give developers the means to create applications on public, private and private clouds without having to worry about the underlying architecture.

Two technologies that many sites and services rely on these days are web applications and search. Those relying heavily on web apps plus Apache Lucene (news, site) and Apache Solr (news, site) now have a new tool available to help them track down and identify performance problems within their sites, thanks to a company called New Relic.

The latest and greatest version of the open source web development framework - Ruby on Rails - is now available. Version 2.0 is a web framework that supports the use of REST-ful web services and says bye bye to SOAP.

The Ruby Conference concluded Sunday with Ezra Zygmuntowicz’s talk on Mongrel — entitled Building Custom Mongrel Handlers for Speed and Concurrency — and a discussion on Rubinius by Evan Phoenix.

To highlight the merits of their offerings they note a few philosophical issues with Ruby and Rails, respectively.

This weekend marks the second annual Ruby conference, hosted by SDForum. Leaping on a unique opportunity to “drink from a ruby-colored firehose,” we got down here at 9 AM yesterday morning and prepared for code overload.

I feel like I’ve been dropped into a live-action Anandtech forum.