Here is a simple tutorial to get rails working with oracle.
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Here is another "article":link about deploying rails apps. This time it uses apache and fastCGI.
[link]http://bobcares.com/article38.html
Here are a few of the smaller changes that made it into Rail 1.1. They maybe small but the look very useful.
I just checked my mail and Rails 1.1 is out. Read DHH's post for more info.
A few minutes ago I stumbled across the Rails Recipes forum. Then I saw a link to it's code called opinion. Here is a overview from its trac.
Opinion is a Ruby on Rails based Forum system that tries to approximate a "blog <-> comment" system rather than imitating busy and noisy traditional forum solutions that already exist.
From the blog post:
lighttpd 1.4.8 was just released and next to a pile of bugfixes we added a new option to fastcgi.server to allow a simple setup of "multiple rails apps":http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2005/11/23/lighttpd-1-4-8-and-multiple-rails-apps in one virtual host.
Rake, if you couldn't tell by the name, is Ruby mAKE . You can make tasks and set dependencies all in ruby. Here is an example:
Rakefile:
task :hello do
print "Hello, "
end
task :world => [:hello] do
puts "World!!"
end
Then from the command line:
rake world
and you get:
(in /Users/robert/ruby) Hello, World!!
As you see by running the world task it runs its dependency before hand. Rake also does file time dependency. So if you build a task that needs files to be built it checks the file stamp and determines if any thing has changed and the files need to be rebuilt just like make and unlike ant.
Anyway, here are the official docs for rake. And here is the API.
Just in case you've not heard of him. Why_ is a very active member of the ruby community. He has written many modules. For example:
* YAML
* Camping
* Markaby
He also has two ruby tutorials.
* why's (poignant) guide to Ruby
* Try Ruby
He has many web sites, but the one I use the most is RedHanded.
why_ is a lunatic that you have to keep your eye on.
I was thinking about writing something like this for rails. I guess these guys beat me too it.
