http://blog.arfon.org live cycle of a Rails developer Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:06:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been working with Rails now for nearly two years and for the majority of that time I've been working in environments where the hosting has already been worked out. At Impact we used the excellent RailsMachine for our hosting. We had a cluster of 6 VPS' all ... http://blog.arfon.org/slicehost/ Seems that this history meme thing is pretty popular at the moment. So without further ado here's mine: history | awk '{print $2}'| sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head 103 ss 94 ls 61 svn 55 cd 43 cap 32 sc ... http://blog.arfon.org/history-meme/ The penultimate day of David Black's 'Advancing with Rails' course covered some of the more technical aspects of Rails application development. Security We had quite an extensive review of how you can make your Rails application more secure. Rails now by default ships with the protect_from_forgery option enabled in the ApplicationController. ... http://blog.arfon.org/advancing-with-rails-day-3/ I had hoped to post a daily updates on the rest of the 'Advancing with Rails course the week before last, but alas, life was a little too busy so here's what I particularly enjoyed on day 2. Rails is all about the request cycle Your application is basically just sitting there ... http://blog.arfon.org/day-2/ Just finished my first day 'Advancing with Rails' courtesy of David A. Black. I'm happy to say that it's one of the most enlightening programming experiences I've had for quite some time. It's rare that you get an opportunity to pick the brains of a real expert like David and with ... http://blog.arfon.org/advancing-with-rails-day-1/