Hi All, Jeff Barr will be talking about Amazon Web Services (AWS). We think its a game changing technology. We have used AWS services to build MediaPlug...
Hi all - This info came to me from the prag prog folks: ============================= The Pragmatic Studio is excited to announce the Agile Developer Studio,...
While we are on the subject of training, Jared Richardson and Andy Hunt will bein town doing training based on the popular PragProg book "Ship It!" at the end...
... I've been using Eclipse + RDT and it's decent. I've been hearing a lot about Ruby support in Netbeans, though; sounds like it might be worth a try. ... ...
I was a big fan of RadRails... and then Aptana consumed them and it seems like it went downhill fast. I haven't used it since so they may be better now, but...
If you are familiar with emacs or vi, there is quite a bit of information about customizing them for Rails. I have been happy with RadRails (now Aptana). In...
I use textmate + locomotive most of the time, when I have a tough issue that requires debugging I use komodo, their 4.1 ide actually works very well on the mac...
Aptane/RadRails does incorporate a visual debugger now. It uses the new ruby-debug (fast). Note: this is not the default configuration, yet. You also must...
On Windows, I use Radrails 0.7.2 and I like its integration with Rails and Ruby and Ri. So far I have not run into any bugs. The built-in ri documentation...
My team of four is still hacking away with the old version of RadRails, while I've upgraded to Aptana. I had some issues with it initially- it broke the rhtml...
I'll put in another vote for ActiveState Komodo IDE 4.1. If your time is worth anything, then the $$$ shouldn't be a dealbreaker (though if you don't need the...
This month's meeting is supposed to be June 20, which is less than two weeks away. We don't yet have a topic. People have floated some ideas at the meetings,...
+1 deployment panel I would be happy to contribute. I would have some insight from the developer perspective. I am using Capistrano 1.4 and 2 (1.99.*). We...
There is a DCRUG meeting today. For the June meeting, we are having a joint meeting with Adams Morgan Ruby Users Group (see details below): Topic: Amazon.com...
I would love to see a deployment conversation, and would have a bunch to contribute as well. I have 3 clients with hosting configurations at Rimu Hosting, and...
Okay, a new push for everyone is the NOVA OpenCoffee Club that started a few weeks ago. The OpenCoffee Club (http://opencoffee.ning.com/) was started to...
Dear Ruby User's Group: Below please see our temp to perm opening for a Ruby on Rails Architect. The position is located in Northern Virginia. Please contact...
I use a combination of apache and lighttpd on my webserver to host Rails applications. I have been hearing a lot lately about Mongrel. Mongrel does not appear...
I have been using mongrel in a production environment since last October... The mongrel+apache combination is pretty easy to administer if you are using...
I recall hearing at some talk (probably at RailsConf), that Mongrel is actually slightly slower than fcgi, but the difference isn't that significant. The main...
Desperately looking for Ruby programmer to write Unit/Functional/Integration/Performance tests and perform manual testing. We are a fun casual startup...
I have also heard that nginx is becoming a more popular option in front of mongrel cluster. I haven't tried it yet, but at RailsConf, Adam Keys was telling me...
Yeah, I use it too between apache and mongrel since I have el-cheapo shared hosting and don't have access to the apache configuration. It does the load ...
Hmm, I guess I know more than I realized about Rails deployment. If we need someone else for that panel next meeting, I could probably do it. ... -- -- Andrew...