David and co have just released the latest version of Ruby on Rails.
Apparently there is some work to do when upgrading an application which you can check out here, only I can’t reach it from my PC. Well I hope I’ll be able to read it in the morning.
To upgrade the actual rails on your machine do a:
gem update railsfrom your commandline, assuming you have Gem installed.
Lots of interesting new features that I will comment on when I try them.
Update The owner of hieraki.org has problems with his dns, but I have the all magic IP address to put in your hosts file if you want to read the update documentation.
69.90.10.37 rails.hieraki.orgPut this in /etc/hosts under *nix (including Mac is my guess) and c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts under Windows.
While I was never a Solaris fan before, Solaris 10 has really caught my attention. My favorite new feature being Solaris Containers . Jem Matzan has a great relatively in depth review where he coveres many of the great new features.
One thing is that he says the latest release doesn’t support AMD64 in 64 bit mode. I believe the very latest one does.
Download a copy yourself it’s free
At my day job I have the great displeasure of working with Websphere which has to be one of the most anal app servers I have had the (dis)pleasure to work with.
What can I say. The joys of scripting in jython with wsadmin and imagining the drunken night playing with babushka dolls which must have inspired the wonders of it’s logical simple admin interface.
Ok, it is powerful, but talk about feeling in a Kafkaesque world at times. Then enters Ruby on Rails as the swift and elegant hero ready to take on the world. Boy am I having fun. I hope to release my first project built in it in January if my day job allows it.
Like everyone else I watched the video and thought cool. Then I downloaded it and ended up putting it off as I need to work with Java for both my own projects and my current day job. When the frustrations of Websphere and friends got the most of me I decided I needed a breath of fresh air to kickstart my new projects.
Ruby is cool. Ruby on Rails is cool. It really just works. Of course it fills me with silly national pride to know that it is a Danish invention as well. David the developer/evangelist is a great example of the new generation globalist geek entrepreneurs that I hope will help inspire other bright sparks here.
Ruby consists of some nice modules with an Active theme going on:
I found lots of discussion about various variations of the same login concepts. So I was thinking we should take the Dont Repeat Yourself concept and create an ActiveUser package, meant to be integrated into ActionPack. I am working on that right now and hope to have something to show shortly (work allowing).