Simon Willison’s Weblog

Penny Arcade is now running on Rails. Their archive navigation still sucks, sadly.

# 14th November 2005, 8:34 pm / penny-arcade, rails

Liquid—a new Rails template system (via) Heavily inspired by Django. I’m flattered!

# 6th November 2005, 10:31 pm / django, rails, ruby

XML.com: REST on Rails. Matt Biddulph’s Rails mixin provides an instant REST interface to an ActiveRecord model.

# 4th November 2005, 1:47 pm / matt-biddulph, rails, rest

The BBC’s programme catalogue (on Rails). Matt Biddulph’s current project is insanely cool.

# 31st October 2005, 7:39 pm / bbc, matt-biddulph, rails

Djangolians from the Planet Rails. Halloween costume fun.

# 30th October 2005, 6:30 pm / rails

London Web Frameworks Night. Talks on Django, Rails, Catalyst. I’m talking about Django.

# 28th October 2005, 10:22 am / rails, web-frameworks

A comparison of Django with Rails. Nails the differences pretty well.

# 16th August 2005, 6 pm / django, rails

Salted Hash Login Generator for Rails. I’ve used the precursor to this, Login Generator, to good effect.

# 5th July 2005, 12:02 pm / rails

Ruby on Rails, and the Rails Beta Book. The comments include a good discussion of the pros and cons of Rails’ code-in-templates approach.

# 10th June 2005, 5:22 pm / rails

The Rails BetaBook is Ready. Buy the book + beta PDF, get the PDF now and the dead-tree book when it’s finished.

# 26th May 2005, 7:34 pm / rails

Taking the unsafe GETs out of Rails. A great explanation of the problem, and a decent stab at a solution.

# 9th May 2005, 12:27 am / rails

How to receive emails with Action Mailer in Rails. It’s surprisingly easy. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.

# 4th May 2005, 5:16 pm / rails

Text Search in Rails. Rails extension to add search APIs to your models, based on LIKE queries.

# 3rd May 2005, 7:01 pm / rails

Could Rails have been built without Ruby? Fascinating essay about how Ruby, like Lisp, lets you build new languages.

# 15th April 2005, 5:42 pm / rails

Howto Generate PDFs in Rails. Use HTMLDoc, PdfWriter or Ruby FPDF.

# 13th April 2005, 5:03 pm / rails

Ruby on Rails and FastCGI: Scaling using processes instead of threads. Relates to the shared-nothing architecture.

# 12th April 2005, 2:06 pm / fastcgi, rails, scaling

Combining XMLHttpRequest and Rails to Produce More Efficient UIs. Ruby on Rails is setting itself up to be THE framework for Ajax work.

# 10th March 2005, 8:10 pm / rails, xmlhttprequest

Ruby On Rails + XUL Experiment. States that Wiki is Hawaiian for “can’t find shit.”

# 27th January 2005, 3:16 am / rails

Rolling with Ruby on Rails. Extensive Rails tutorial on ONLamp.com.

# 21st January 2005, 7:50 am / rails

Rails (via) MVC web framework for Ruby.

# 25th July 2004, 7:32 pm / rails