Archive for August, 2006

 

Shane on Aug 28th, 2006Why Ruby on Rails is Awesome Part 1 - Migrations

I've been doing web development since 1994 and Ruby on Rails is a breath of fresh air. In the past I have developed sites in Perl, Php, Asp.net, and Java. Ruby on Rails blows them all away in terms of ease of use and development time. I thought I would go through the specifics of [...]

Shane on Aug 3rd, 2006Problems with Ruby on Rails

I'm a huge Ruby on Rails fanboy, and I've been using it to write web applications for a year and a half now. I think it's superior to everything else I've used in the past 12 years. It does have problems though.
Migrations are not executed within a transaction
This one has bitten me on a number [...]