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Announcing O'Reilly Answers - Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

By Allen Noren
November 4, 2009

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Rails in a Nutshell Manuscript Open For Collaboration

By Keith Fahlgren
October 19, 2009

Following hot on the launch of the Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript manuscript three weeks ago, I'm pleased that Rails in a Nutshell, from Cody Fauser, James MacAulay, Edward Ocampo-Gooding and John Guenin is now live and...

Dreaming of Rails as the Next Microsoft Access

By Simon St. Laurent
May 5, 2009

Rails? Microsoft Access? Aren't those from different planets? Well, they may have different origins, but their similarities give me hope.

Using Helpers and Blocks to easily add design to your site

By Eric Berry
April 8, 2009

I bought the program Coda by Panic software. It is a pretty cool app, even though it is not my preferred editor. One thing that I love about Panic software is they make beautiful interfaces. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a 'sheet' similar to those found in Coda.

You ain't gonna need what?

By Mike Loukides
April 8, 2009

One of the defining characteristics of the Rails movement has been its willingness to throw out the rules by which software developers and consultants have typically worked. Those rules typically produce big, overblown projects laden with features that no one ever uses--but which sounded good during the project specification phase. Build the simplest thing that could possibly work, and...

ISBN adventures

By Simon St. Laurent
February 16, 2009

For most people, ISBNs are random noise on the backs of books, helpful mostly for barcode scanning at the register. For publishing folk, ISBNs can actually be memorable, magic keys for jumping from one system to the next. Of course, there are now two different flavors of ISBN, the obsolete (I prefer 'classic') variety with 10 digits, and the new version with 13 digits. Working with two sets of magic keys can be complicating.

Using the Twitter Search API to Refine TOC Conference Tweet Data

By Andrew Savikas
February 15, 2009

I didn't see it coming from this audience, but the Twitter chatter was thunderous during the TOC Conference this year. As things wound up, a lot of attendees were looking for a single list of all the conference tweets. Not...

Concept Management

By Eric Larson
January 30, 2009

Distributed version control systems have brought up some pretty important questions. A DVCS adds a good deal of complexity to an already complicated system. Source control is rather sticky business as it not only deals with complex content, but the...

Rubyist Pat Eyler Interviews Ruby Best Practises Author Gregory Brown

By Sara Peyton
January 14, 2009

Ruby aficionado Pat Eyler is conducting a series of wonderful interviews with Gregory Brown, the author of O'Reilly's upcoming Ruby Best Practices (currently in Rough Cuts).

Practice

By Simon St. Laurent
January 1, 2009

My New Year's Resolution for this year is simple: practice. You don't have to achieve (or even aim for) total mastery for the practice to be worthwhile.

Installing Instant Rails on Windows

By Simon St. Laurent
December 22, 2008

Instant Rails is getting old, but it's still a quick way to install Rails and start coding. This screencast shows how to download and install Instant Rails, and shows off how it works with a simple example from Chapter 2 of Learning Rails.

Creating Custom SOAP Requests with Ruby and Net::HTTP

By Eric Berry
December 19, 2008

Learn to create a custom SOAP request using Ruby and Net::HTTP

A Conversation with the Authors of JRuby Cookbook

By Timothy M. O'Brien
November 25, 2008

Henry Liu and Justin Edelson authors of the just released JRuby Cookbook talk about JRuby, the current state of the Java platform, and some of the compelling benefits of integrating a language like Ruby with the Java platform.

First Steps into Rails (on the Mac)

By Simon St. Laurent
November 24, 2008

Once you have Rails installed, it's time to explore the foundations of how Rails applications are put together. It's not quite programming yet - it's more looking around to figure out how the pieces fit together.

Installing Rails on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Server)

By Simon St. Laurent
November 20, 2008

Want to install a Rails development environment on a bare-bones Ubuntu server setup? It's not that hard.

Installing Rails on Hardy Heron (Desktop)

By Simon St. Laurent
November 19, 2008

One of the most difficult parts of the tech review for Learning Rails was Chapter 1, installing Rails. There are way too many operating systems and choices within those operating systems to provide a straightforward explanation. To help deal with...

Swapping Custom Views with RubyCocoa

By Eric Berry
October 29, 2008

Learn how to swap custom views using RubyCocoa in your interface.

The Perfect Cloud

By Eric Larson
October 28, 2008

Tim posted about the shape of the could and makes an excellent point regarding the barrier to entry. The essence is that we haven't quite found the sweet spot for deploying apps to the could. This is very true in...

RubyCocoa and NSTables De-Mystified

By Eric Berry
October 17, 2008

Screencast showing how to create a RubyCocoa application which pulls search results from Amazon using their Web API and populates a table.

Testing Rails Partials

By Phlip Plumlee
October 9, 2008

Test Driven Development works best when each test case targets one aspect of a class's interface. So this post will demonstrate a simple and direct way to test a partial without testing the Views, layouts, and Controller actions surrounding it. On very complex projects, this technique keeps your partials decoupled.

The Ever-Dynamic John Lam on Iron Ruby, Open Source and Microsoft

By James Turner
September 29, 2008

John Lam, who heads the Iron Ruby effort at Microsoft, stopped by to tell O'Reilly News all the exciting work going on with dynamic languages at Redmond. John spent some time discussing what makes a language dynamic, what the benefits of dynamic languages are, and how Microsoft is trying to leverage the power of lanaguages such as Ruby inside their CLR framework.

The Present and Future of Ruby and Rails

By chromatic
September 19, 2008

Chad Fowler and Rich Kilmer discuss where Ruby and Rails have gone in the past year, whether RESTful composition obviates the need for ORM, what's interesting in the upcoming world of Ruby and Rails, and how Maglev, Rubinius, and other new Ruby implementations contribute to the world of dynamic languages.

Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson: Rails Culture, Scaling Basecamp, and Building Successful Companies

By Timothy M. O'Brien
August 22, 2008

In this video interview, DHH discusses the current state of Ruby on Rails adoption. Who is using Rails? How was the culture changed over the past five years? Hansson also comments on the technologies that are catching his attention and how they might affect Rails in the months to come. Hansson also comments on his Startup School presentation, and why he thinks Chicago is an ideal environment for technology and innovation.

Why are we still 'releasing' software?

By Gregory Brown
August 14, 2008

We've come a long way with tools for developing and sharing our code, especially when it comes to revision control. However, packaging and deploying code for release is still at worst a huge hassle and at best an administrative chore. Can we do better?

RailsConf Europe Early Registration

By Allison Randal
July 10, 2008

The schedule for RailsConf Europe just went up last week. It's shaping up to be another great conference. A few sessions and tutorials that particularly catch my eye are David Heinemeier Hansson's keynote on Wednesday morning, "Meta-programming Ruby for Fun & Profit" by Neal Ford, "Offline Rails Applications with Google Gears and Adobe AIR" by Till Vollmer, "From Rails Security...

Ruby + Bonjour = Decentralized Intertubes

By Gregory Brown
June 19, 2008

Miserable internet connectivity at conferences is something most geeks have to deal with. As a result of RailsConf 2008, some folks have leveraged Apple's now open source Bonjour service discovery protocol to produce a whole slew of services to help people go off-grid at conferences. This makes serving things such as git repositories, pastebins, and other fun stuff more comfortable in places without a fast or reliable internet connection.

Ruby Cocoa

By Daniel H. Steinberg
June 5, 2008

Hey, you got Ruby in my Cocoa. Mmmm. Two great taste treats.

Microsoft integrates Silverlight, Rails and .NET

By RJ Owen
June 3, 2008

Microsoft recently announced demos of two excited Ruby on Rails developments. The first is a Silverlight application integrated with Ruby on Rails and the second is a demo of Microsoft's .NET Rails implementation, somewhat weirdly named "IronRuby." In this entry we'll discuss the announcement, Microsoft's implementation of Rails, and provide some resources for getting started in your own Rails education.

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