Thursday, May 29, 2008

On the Slow Train with Rails 2.0

August and I have been fans and avid users of Ruby on Rails for a couple years now, which also means that we chipped our teeth on Rails 1.x up until only recently. And while the transition to Rails 2.0 hasn't really caused us too many headaches, we haven't escaped unscathed. August posted to our brand spanking new Web Technologies Group blog yesterday about some of the troubles we've been working around with Rails 2.0 for Flagstaff and other Rails applications on our servers. Luckily, he picked up a trick to make life easier for people who are more accustomed to the ways in which Rails 1.x handled scaffolding. Smack the link for some insight.

We're just about set with our configurations and ready to move forward with Flagstaff development. August is in Portland, Oregon for Rails Conf, which should prove to be a very insightful trip for him (plus, after I showed him some pictures of the Oregon coastlines, he resolved himself to plan his trip around sightseeing, so he'll undoubtedly receive some other benefits from the trip). But his absence will probably slow down the Flagstaff work a little more than usual. Nonetheless, I'm in the process of laying the foundation for some features that we're bringing into Flagstaff from some of our past work, so stay tuned.

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