Railsbook?

As an result of discussion on RedHanded about lack of good documentation for Rails, topfunky (host Rails podcasts – http://podcast.rubyonrails.org/, BTW I recommend to hear them!) have funded domain and VPS for Rails book (similar to Django book). It is http://www.railsbook.org/ (currently it is still domain parked on GoDaddy servers, so check it later). Hurrah! …

form_tag and HTML options

Many people are complaining about Rails and Ruby documentation (well, read what WhyTheLuckyStiff has to say about DjangoBook, and all comments there). I agree. Let’s take form_tag in it’s new form (for 1.2 release). From official documentation (it is hard to give link, since it is to some frame, and may change, so if this …

Virtual Ruby – finally?

On WhyTheLuckyStiff’s blog I found info on merging YARV to Ruby. YARV it is acronym for Yet Another Ruby Virtual Machine. Nice to know, that finally path to make Ruby programs faster is becoming reality. However YARV needs support from community. It is developed by one person, and if merge with Ruby should end well, …