Rails 2.0: Scaffold

Following the Rails 2.0 hype, I’ve been playing around with it and decided to share a first impression: Scaffolding is gone!
But wait, before you knock your head against the wall, let me tell you something: I lied
Scaffolding is not really gone. It’s just changed a bit.
How can I tell? Well, as a good developer [...]

Spring 2.5: Dependency Injection that doesn’t hurt

Dependency injection - DI -  is a great thing. Really. The hability to tweak implementations without touching your code is awesome and the DI frameworks, like spring, saves you a lot of coding. No more service locators stuff.
But, and there is always a but, you’re left with a bunch of XML configuration. And I hate it. [...]

RubyWorks: Production Stack for Rails

Well, we all know how hard, or at least cumbersome, it can be to set up a production environment to deploy your applications. Besides all the hardware stuff like storages, links, routers you are still left with a huge amount of software configuration to handle. This often includes configuring things like clusters, load balancing and [...]