Faster web page requests in Rails development

Faster web page requests in Rails development

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...
Custom fields in Rails

Custom fields in Rails

What approach do you take when adding dynamic attributes to model objects stored in a traditional database?  Let’s say a bug model with static fields like name and species also needs to support any number of additional dynamic fields specified by different bug...

Another Look at RubyMotion

A few months ago I took a look at RubyMotion and wondered if it would garner enough developer interest to be successful and I think it is. There have been several significant updates to the core product, its creator Laurent Sansonetti has given a number of talks at...

RubyMotion Brings Ruby to iOS

RubyMotion is a new development toolchain that allows you to build iOS apps using Ruby created by Laurent Sansonetti, a former Apple engineer and contributor to the MacRuby project. It has garnered a lot of attention the past few weeks and some detailed reviews have...