Numerous commercial software vendors offer competing software applications for connectivity (both Internet and intranet), security, hosting, and e-business servers. System Center competes with server management and server virtualization platform providers, such as BMC, CA, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and VMWare in the management of information technology infrastructures. Forefront security products compete with McAfee, Symantec, and Trend [...]
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Receiving Email with Rails
This article originally appeared in the first issue of Rails Magazine. It is reproduced here not quite verbatim with a couple of corrections and additions. Photo from esparta on Flickr. Introduction Receiving email is a great way to add functionality to your application. This is one area, though, that is not very well documented with [...]
32 Rack Resources to Get You Started
Rack What the heck is Rack and why is it getting so much press lately? Well, from it’s tag-line: “Rack provides an minimal interface between webservers supporting Ruby and Ruby frameworks.” But what does that mean? Prior to Rack if you wanted to interface with Mongrel or Thin you had to write your own custom [...]
Passenger 2.1.1 and Local Production Environment
If you’re on the passenger 2.1.1 beta and having problems locally with getting your rails apps to not be in the production environment, read on.
Ruby Hash Trickery
Ilya Grigorick put up a pretty cool pastie showing a neat hack to make Ruby hashes raise errors with invalid keys:
Rails Magazine Issue 1
The first issue of Rails Magazine is out! I’m super excited because I’ve got an article in there on receiving email with Rails. Go check it out. I can reproduce the article here after the publication has been out for 30 days so stay tuned for that.
Ruby Interpreter Comparison
I did a talk at QCon a while back on the different Ruby Virtual Machines. You can check out the presentation the InfoQ web site: Ruby VMs: A Comparison.
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