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Tag: ruby on rails
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5 Alternatives to WordPress
Considering WordPress as a Web content management system is something hundreds, and maybe thousands of website owners likely do on a daily basis, and we've got a ready-made short list of alternatives that we think are viable alternatives. If there is such a thing as a mainstream Web CMS (WCMS)
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Acquia, Engine Yard Partner to Bolster Drupal, Ruby on Rails PaaS Integration
Acquia (news, site) -- providers of commercial support and hosting for the Drupal Web CMS, and Ruby on Rails platform-as-a-service (PaaS) Engine Yard (news, site ) have announced a partnership to offer a managed cloud-based solution for Ruby on Rails (RoR).
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Webiva Delivers Open Source Content Management on Rails
Webiva is yet another content management system that aims to give the likes of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal some competition. The difference? In addition to being an open source, Ruby on Rails system, Webiva comes packed with a SaaS hosting platform that cuts out a ton of management hassle.
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New Relic Offers Lucene and Solr Performance Monitoring
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
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Ruby on Rails Playing in the Open Source Web CMS Market
When you look at the open source content management systems out there today, you'll find a ton written in PHP, some written in Perl and Java, and a small collection written in Python. There is also another small OS CMS market -- those written in Ruby on Rails (RoR).
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New Bamboo's Platform Sounds Cute and Promising
New Bamboo, a software company that’s been developing solutions using the infamous Ruby on Rails since its conception, released Panda -- a new Open Source platform designed for the easy uploading, transcoding and streaming of videos on websites.Panda-Monium Demands for better video management on the web are steadily increasing.
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The Social Media Minute
News moves so fast on the social media field, everyone needs a hand keeping up. Except for us of course, because we are like so on the ball. Yeah...ahem...right. On that note here are the top social media stories from the past few days, distilled into a minute's worth of
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Ruby on Rails Turns 2.0
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.
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YikeSite Makes Debut, to Publishers' Delight
YikeSite, a simple means of keeping your site or a client's up-to-date, launched earlier today.YikeSite is a SaaS Web CMS written in Ruby on Rails. Structure of pricing varies based on the size of your storage needs.
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Ruby Conference: Mongrel and Rubinius Take Love to Town
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.Mongrel, a fast HTTP
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CMSWire Reports Live from the Ruby Conference!
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.
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SDForum Hosts Second Annual Ruby Conference
Into Ruby? Clear your weekend schedule and make a pilgrimage to San Jose, CA, the heart of Silicon Valley. Here at Mecca you will find the SDForum, the Valley's geektacular info-source in the tech community.The Second Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference is a two-day event taking place at the Tech
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