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Beast

A small, light-weight forum in Rails with a scary name and a goal of around 500 lines of code when we're done.

Using authentication systems such as this allows you to minimize maintenance overhead for the software you deploy.

SaltedHashLoginGenerator in Ruby on Rails

A generator based on the LoginGenerator by TobiasLuetke. This generator adds ActionMailer support for changed and forgotten passwords, as well as account verification via a registration email with a custom URL sent to the user’s registered address.

Fascinating essay on javascript and rails...

Stevey's Blog Rants: Blogger's Block #3: Dreaming in Browser Swamp

Well, if you happen to be doing web programming, Ruby on Rails defies classical language mechanics by actually being a lower energy state. That's right; it's more lazy to learn Rails than it is to try to get your web framework to be that productive, so people are just tunneling over to it like so many electrons.

Real Lessons for Rails Deployment
checklist with ample explanation of how to go live with a production instance of your rails project!

Don't even consider running your Rails app in CGI mode. Even in production mode. That crisp feel won't be there. You're app will feel slow. Even worse, it will be slow. Just skip that part. You might as well delete dispatch.cgi out of your Rails directory and not even futz with it.

Mike Clark's Weblog
this is a run down on the use of active record for creating a rails based application. I keep meaning to find time to dig into rails... I'm going to put it on my laptop at work and see if I can manage some datasets that are so very awkward as excel spreadsheets!

Active Record is the object-relational mapping (ORM) layer that comes out-of-the-box with Rails. With zero coding and configuration you can create, read, update, and delete database rows all from the comfort of your very own domain models. But the story doesn't end there, nor should it. When you need to go beyond basic CRUD—to create complex queries, adapt to a legacy schema, or otherwise do advanced stuff with your persistent data—Active Record gently hands over the controls. Herewith, I offer two examples from this week's project adventures.

Google Groups : comp.lang.ruby
This is the second time I've read of microsoft natives happy to explore an open world... If you haven't looked at Ruby on Rails, I suggest you look at it.

In short, if you need transactional capabilities or need to integrate with some of the other enterprise features (message queueing), build with .NET and get yourself a good code-generation/ORM tool. If you're building your standard 3-tier web app, or have a tiny budget, I recommend giving Rails a serious look.

RailFrog / CMS Ridin' on Rails
I put together a side project hosted at textdrive, I haven't done anything with that site for months. Bolting on a CMS would be a refreshing diversion...

RailFrog is a user-friendly, open-source web site deployment and content management system built with Rails; producing well structured and standards-compliant pages with Web 2.0 goodness.

RAILS on Windows 2003
if you need to don that sort of thing...

RAILS on Windows 2003
Setting up Ruby on Rails (RoR) for development is not that hard. Basically you need the Ruby windows installer and ‘gem’ the rails stuff on to your machine. There is a web server build in so you are immediately good to go for building and testing.