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Rails Cookbook: Action Controller
White Papers In the Rails architecture, Action Controller receives incoming requests and hands off each request to a particular action. Action Controller is tightly integrated with Action View; together they form Action Pack.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Build a Wiki System With Rails
White Papers The Ruby language and the Ruby on Rails (Rails for short) web application framework have created a lot of buzz in the software programming industry and for good reason. While Ruby has been around for more than a decade, the Rails framework is...
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
Ajax on Rails: Introducing script.aculo.us
White Papers This paper discusses about script.aculo.us, and the Rails helpers that use it.script.aculo.us provides eye-catching visual effects and transitions and powerful drag-and-drop elements. They're both developed in concert with Rails, and they share...
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Dynamically Generate a Selection List in a Rails Template
White Papers This hack creates a select element from server-side data using a Ruby on Rails application. A Rails application wraps all of the XMLHttpRequest mechanics behind its own methods. Unlike the typical manner in which a web widget is generated in a web...
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
Valentina for Ruby/ Ruby on Rails
Downloads Every major development tool has a native driver; native web apps with Ruby on Rails and PHP Modern Database. You can connect your applications with Valentina 3.x Office Server using native adapters for REAL Software REALbasic, Adobe Director...
[February 12, 2008, 6:00]
Ruby Cookbook - Web Development: Ruby on Rails
White Papers Ruby on Rails is unquestionably Ruby's killer app. This paper demonstrates the principles underlying basic Rails usage, gives Rails implementations of common web application patterns and shows how to use standard Ruby tools from within Rails.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Ruby on Rails: The importance of being 1.0
News David Heinemeier Hansson is the Danish creator of Ruby on Rails, a Ruby-based, open-source development framework that has seen rapid adoption since it was first released in 2004. Rails takes a different approach to software development, what...
[February 9, 2006, 14:05]
Ruby on Rails on Oracle: A Simple Tutorial
White Papers Ruby on Rails is the new application framework that seems to be taking the Web development community, in particular J2EE and PHP programmers, by storm. Rails is a capable Web application platform and has, in less than few years, gained significant...
[October 17, 2006, 1:00]
Urgent security fix for Ruby on Rails users
News The Ruby on Rails team released a patch on Wednesday, which they describe as "mandatory" for all public sites built using recent versions of the web application framework. This patch fixes a "serious security concern", the precise nature of which...
[August 10, 2006, 17:05]
Tagging With Oracle and Ruby on Rails
White Papers Tagging by itself won't add incredible functionality to the Rails application, but the features one builds on top of tagging can add a layer of richness to the user's experience. Social computing has taken the Internet by storm in the last few...
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
A Flickr-Based Introduction to Ruby on Rails 2.0
White Papers Rails web application framework became the perfect killer application for the Ruby language and an extremely powerful tool for rapidly developing web applications based on the CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) pattern.
[December 22, 2008, 0:00]
Guide to Ruby on Rails Migrations
White Papers Developers are flocking to Ruby on Rails at an incredible pace. There's a great reason for this migration: Rails provides a robust framework built on one of the most flexible languages ever conceived.
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
Tips for Optimizing Rails on Oracle
White Papers Using the Ruby on Rails framework it is relatively easy to develop complex systems that are backed by an Oracle database, but this ease doesn't exempt the developer from the need to optimize the data model and the code that manipulates it.
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
A Partial Solution to the Semantic Web Services Challenge Problem Using Swashup: The Ruby on Rails Services Mashup Approach
White Papers In particular, the approach heavily leverages the Ruby language, it's Rails framework, and the ability to define languages within the language or Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs). Finally, the paper takes advantage of the Rails framework to access...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Ruby on Rails
White Papers Ruby on Rails is a full stack web application framework. It is written in the Ruby programming language. There is growing community since 2004. It is Open source and free.
[October 6, 2007, 1:00]
Ruby on Rails: Building Web Applications Is Fun Again!
White Papers Ruby on Rails is a web application framework written in Ruby. Ruby is an object Oriented scripting language. It is a Model-view-controller, database agnostic, open source.
[October 6, 2007, 1:00]
Trend Micro rails against standalone antivirus apps
News Standalone antivirus applications are dangerous because they cannot adequately protect users and so create a false sense of security, according to the top malware expert at Trend Micro. However, the company continues to sell its standalone...
[September 24, 2008, 10:06]
WTO boss rails against 'dot-com types'
News The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has blamed "dot-com types" for recent anti-capitalist violence at WTO gatherings. Speaking at the WTO symposium in Geneva on Friday, the director general Mike Moore lashed out at the "mindless...
[July 9, 2001, 16:32]
Ruby on Rails: Ajax
White Papers Ajax is one of the most important emerging trends in web applications. Web sites like Google Maps and Gmail dramatically demonstrate that web applications do not have to be slow, clunky, page-at-a-time web forms.
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Connecting to Oracle From Ruby on Rails
White Papers In the Java world, there are two common types of drivers for Oracle: the pure-Java (a.k.a.thin) driver and the native OCI driver. At the time of writing, no pure Ruby driver, similar to Java's JDBC-based thin driver, exists.
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
