Comments on: Speeding Up Rails Development

By: Matt Jankowski

Matt Jankowski — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:27:06 +0000

“I am really sorry for not including RR participants who used OpenID Rails Kit and pissed off Thoughbot guys who used suspenders etc.”

We werent pissed off – if anything we were surprised at how MANY people used suspenders, because we released it (by released I mean “accidentally made it public on github”) literally DURING the rails rumble. It was sort of cool and bizarre to see people in a 48 hour contest using software that they had found during that same contest!

By: Akhil Bansal

Akhil Bansal — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:58:54 +0000

Good collection. Thanks for your posts

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By: roger

roger — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:47:16 +0000

Active scaffold is pretty nice, too, and uber-builder as a form builder has some good recommendations [1].
I also like http://code.google.com/p/ruby-roger-useful-functions/wiki/EnglishLikeQueries

-=R
[1] http://tim.theenchanter.com/2008/11/most-rockin-carpool-site-on-web.html

By: Migol

Migol — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:28:50 +0000

@Phill Kenoyer: “The IDEís just donít do it for me.”

And may I ask you why? For months I’ve been using text editor for programming, but when I finally learnt how to use IDE there was no going back.

By: Phill Kenoyer

Phill Kenoyer — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:12:26 +0000

The only reason why I prefer my Mac over my Linux/FreeBSD boxes is that when I’m using X I find myself constantly tweaking the UI. All the bells and whistles that X has are just too irresistible to me. I just have to play with it. On the Mac, I get my work done and then I can go outside and enjoy life.

But yeah, I don’t think I could live without my Textmate. The IDE’s just don’t do it for me. GVIM is good too, but textmate is just great…. and WHERE IS MY TEXTMATE V2.0! It’s been years….

By: Migol

Migol — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:10:48 +0000

@Peter: Oh please…
To first comment:
Ubuntu is slow as hell. You want to get performance, get Gentoo. And for the Rauils installation – DON’T USE DISTRO PACKAGE MANAGER. It sucks. Really. Just install ruby, gem and use gem for management of your ruby packages. Why? Because no distro have ever utilized gem ability to have concurrent versions of same package.
And for the SQL GUI, there are some for X Window that are nice and smooth.

To your second comment:
1) Yepp, but I could get a nice Core Quad Extreme 4*3GHz + 8 GB DDR3 RAM + HUGE HDD for less than you would pay for a Mac. And it would be fast as hell.
2) And where TextMate is better than a good IDE? You don’t use IDE? Lol…
3) True, Apple just added a lot of crap to it
4) If you like it, use it.

By: JL Smith

JL Smith — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:31:12 +0000

@Peter: You’re dismissing Ubuntu linux as a viable Rails development platform because you had a hard time installing Rails? You justify a $2500 Macbook Pro purchase because the thing ships with Ruby/Rails installed? Please…I think you just bought a Mac because the “cool kids” did.

Bottom line: OS X does nothing _significantly_ better than Ubuntu linux in the realm of Rails development.

By: Terence Namusonge

Terence Namusonge — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:19:02 +0000

Good post Jim. I second your point on using a mac instead of windows but just to add using linux , ubuntu in particular is just as snazzy and netbeans as your IDE is such a gem :)

By: Randy Parker

Randy Parker — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:59:06 +0000

Watch oculardisaster’s Ruby Dev Tip & Tricks video at
http://atlrug.org/oculardisaster/posts/65-Ruby-Development-Tips-Tricks

(recorded at the Atlanta Ruby users group, 11.13.2008. There are a few slow spots when folks in the audience ask questions, but the audience makes it more comprehensive)