One of the great things about Rails and its community is that they are very lazy. Lazy in the good way of not wanting to do boring, repetitive, error prone things manually. They metaprogram and they automate. A great example of this is Capistrano. Capistrano allows you to deploy Rails applications with ease. The normal [...]

I use a VPS hosted by SliceHost as my personal server. SliceHost uses Xen to host multiple instances of Linux on a single machine. The performance of this setup has been very good.
I have been running:

Apache 2.2 with PHP
MySQL 5
Postfix Mail Server
Courier IMAP Server
ssh for remote access of course

I recently started playing with a site [...]

Ruby on Rails can be used to build many kinds of web applications including public internet applications as well as private intranet ones. As an intranet application it is often very interesting to be able to do Single Sign-On using an existing Active Directory setup. Rails does not support NTLM authentication out of the box [...]

Ruby on Rails is implemented as the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern. This pattern separates the context of the Web Application (in the Controller and the View) from the core Model of the application. The Model contains the Domain objects which encapsulate business logic, data retrieval, etc. The View displays information to the user and [...]

I recently got a free copy of RJS Templates for Rails from the Milwaukee Ruby User’s Group. O’Reilly has a program that makes books available for free to Users Groups, which is a really nice thing (of course they bank on the word-of-mouth advertising that comes from it. Hi O’Reilly! <wave/>).
RJS Templates for Rails is [...]

If Ruby on Rails is all about optimizing the development of web applications, then what would happen if you optimized Rails?
Well, it would get streamlined. Streamlined is a generator for Rails that can be used to easily create sites that are much better looking and much easier to use than the standard scaffold generated views. [...]