Mention Rails, and you will often believe you are debating White Castle burgers. You either love or hate it with little room for anything in between. DHH created a framework where you generally have to play by his rules and if you disagree with those rules, you might...
The intent of this article is to approach development and debugging of Ruby on Rails applications from the perspetive of a C++ developer. In Part I I discussed some of the fundamental differences between Ruby on Rails and C++ development. I started a simple "blog...
Quick background If you already know why C++ and Ruby on Rails are fundamentally different and just want to see the example, you can skip to The Example. I’ve been developing software for many years but, for the most part, have stayed in the C++ world. I made...
Have you ever worked on a Rails app? That app is vulnerable to a new crop of exploits discovered in the waning days of 2012. Rails 3.2.11 (and 2.3, 3.0, and 3.1 releases) patches those flaws, but until someone runs gem update or bundle , an attacker can execute...
Nobody likes waiting for a web page to load. Pity, then, the Ruby on Rails developer, proud of the the development platform’s famous efficiency of code, combating the slanderous claims of a slow production environment, and then condemned to watch the browser...
