Nov 16 2008
David Heinemeier Hansson started a serie of posts to explain some Rails myths.
These posts are a good opportunity to refresh our mind about Rails pros and cons.
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October 31st: The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
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The release candidate version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (codename Intrepid Ibex), which is scheduled for launch in late October this year, arrived a few hours ago and. Compared with the beta release, which brought Firefox 3.0.3, PAM authentication framework and a BBC plugin for Totem.
The development team introduces now two new tools, the first one being System Cleaner (system-cleaner-gtk), which allows you to find and remove packages that are old or not supported by Ubuntu from the system. System Cleaner can also find different problems on the machine, such as wrong entries in /etc/fstab. The second tool is called “Create a USB startup disk” and it allows you to create a bootable USB stick in case you want to install Ubuntu from USB. Here is the screenshot tour of the release candidate of Ubuntu 8.10
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Oct 26 2008
VirtualBox 2.0.4, a maintenance release, has been released. See the ChangeLog for a list of changes since VirtualBox 2.0.2.
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Oct 24 2008
Rails 2.1.2: Security, other fixes
from Riding Rails – home by David
Rails 2.1.2 includes the same two security fixes that we pushed out for 2.0.x recently. We’re talking about a backport of the offset/limit sanitization fix for Active Record and a fix against header-injection when using user-contributed strings in redirect_to (see Response Splitting for more information).
In addition, Rails 2.1.2 fixes the warning that users of RubyGems 1.3.0 were having with script/generate as well as a range of other minor fixes. Enjoy!
As always, you can install with:
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Oct 19 2008
Hot off the back of the Rails Guides hackfest came a lot of great new Rails documentation. Now joining that documentation comes an all new Ruby on Rails Security Guide. Clocking in at almost 11,000 words, the guide covers RJS injection, cookie store session replay attacks, session hijacking, File upload security, mass assignment of attributes, CAPTCHAs, SQL injection, and more.
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Sep 16 2008
NewRelic RPM is a Rails Performance Management system that monitors the performance of your Ruby on Rails applications as they run in production.
The free version RPM Lite, gives a free, supported performance monitoring product that helps developers and application managers optimize production Rails applications.
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If you want to find some free ringtones for your iPhone go there:
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Sep 13 2008
New way of monitoring rails apps
With the number of Ruby on Rails project growing, the framwork getting more and more features and stability we see coming some new applications to monitor your applications really easily.
Scout and Exceptionnal are two of them.
Scout allows you to install plugins in your applications and have a really nice and well organized interface to monitor several aspects of your application depending on which plugins you installed. There are currently 28 plugins available and as I’m just testing scout and have a free account, I am allowed to have 1 client and 3 plugins installed. I choose Phusion Passenger monitor and MySQL slow queries and I am really impressed by the ease of installation of everything. one word, Amazing!
Exceptional is an error tracking and managing system for Rails folks and their apps. We’re in the middle of developing our next beta release and need your help.
I just installed it this evening as I received the invitation, I’m waiting for the first result to give my impressions. Exceptional blog
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