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RailsConf08: 23 Hacks

By Nate Murray | Published: June 4, 2008
Nathaniel Talbott (from Terralien) gave a great talk on a number of interesting hacks in ruby. There was one in particular that I want to focus on here: gitjour. Gitjour is a fun and novel app that will discover git repositories on a local network via Bonjour. It’s hardly going to change your life, but [...]
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RailsConf08: (opinion) ttyrec and my advice to session presenters

By Nate Murray | Published: June 3, 2008
RailsConf was fantastic. A huge thank-you goes out to everyone who took the time to create presentations and sessions. Creating them is a lot of work and I commend you for preparing them. One common negative theme, however, was this: Live coding isn’t efficient and it is bug-prone. It doesn’t matter who you are or [...]
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RailsConf08: Passenger or mod_rails RIP

By Nate Murray | Published: June 2, 2008
There was no lack of hubris on the stage today as the guys from Phusion talked about their new Apache extension Passenger. If Passenger lives up to its claims it seems that it could quickly become the de-facto standard for deploying Rails (and more) applications. The 19 22-year-old duo was obviously ecstatic about sharing about what [...]
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