http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/posts en-us 60 RailsMagazinehttp://feedburner.google.com <p>A new edition of Rails Magazine is now available as a free pdf (65 pages, 4 MB) at <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/issues/5">http://railsmagazine.com/issues/5</a>. The print edition will be available shortly.</p> <p>In this number:</p> <ul> <li><em>Authentication with Gigya</em> by Curtis Jennings Schofield</li> <li><em>Background Processing in Rails</em> by Erik Andrejko</li> <li><em>On Your Rails (and Ruby) Education</em> by Bob Martens</li> <li><em>Sinatra: Fast Web Application in Ruby</em> by Carlo Pecchia</li> <li><em>Sprockets</em> by Starr Horne</li> <li><em>Adding Pre-made Extensions to Radiant <span class="caps">CMS</span></em> by Casper Fabricius</li> <li><em>Protecting Your Application From Impostors</em> by Gavin Morrice</li> <li><em>Geography division select tag</em> by Satish Kota</li> <li><em>RailsBridge: Rebooting the Rails Community</em> by Mike Gunderloy</li> <li><em>Prince: Powerful <span class="caps">PDF</span> Generation</em> by Michael Bleigh</li> <li><em>Ruby C Extension Development</em> by Claudio Fiorini</li> <li><em>Using the Twitter <span class="caps">API</span> with Ruby</em> by Brian Rivard</li> <li><em>Continuous Integration Tools in Rails</em> by Saurabh Bhatia</li> <li><em>Active Scaffold</em> by Payal Gupta</li> <li><em>Implement a Full Text Search Engine with Xapian</em> by Amit Mathur</li> </ul> <p>Please consider sharing an article with the community in the next issue, and spread the word about the magazine.</p> <p>Happy New Year!<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor-in-Chief | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/5gU-BHJizSk" height="1" width="1"/> Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:48:42 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:91:116 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/5gU-BHJizSk/91 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/91 <p>A new edition of Rails Magazine (#4 &#8211; &#8220;The Future of Rails&#8221;) is now available as a free pdf (32 pages) at <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/issues/4">http://railsmagazine.com/issues/4</a></p> <p>Inside:</p> <p>Exclusive coverage of Ruby Kaigi 2009, possibly the largest Ruby conference in the world.</p> <p>Technical articles:<br /> - Background Processing with delayed_job<br /> - Generating <span class="caps">PDF</span> with <span class="caps">ODF</span> templates<br /> - Oracle Tips and Tricks<br /> - Feel the Radiance with Radiant <span class="caps">CMS</span></p> <p>Find out <span class="caps">DHH</span> and Yehuda&#8217;s thoughts on Rails 3 – and beyond&#8230; Interviews with:<br /> - David Heinemeier Hansson<br /> - Yehuda Katz<br /> - Thomas Enebo<br /> - Matz<br /> - Koichi Sasada</p> <p>Join us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rails-Magazine/23044874683">Facebook</a> or follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/railsmagazine">Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Thank you,<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor-in-Chief | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/-aB83E5jIb4" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:55:31 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:79:100 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/-aB83E5jIb4/79 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/79 <p>Rails Magazine Issue #4 (&#8220;The Future of Rails&#8221;) is now available (in print) at <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/issues/4">http://railsmagazine.com/issues/4</a></p> <p>From interviews with Matz, Koichi, <span class="caps">DHH</span> and Yehuda, to exclusive coverage of Ruby Kaigi and our regular, in-depth technical articles, this should make a great read for any Rails developer.</p> <p>The free digital edition (pdf) is well underway and will be available in less than 2 weeks.</p> <p>Thank you,<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor-in-Chief | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/G-9ruqasLhg" height="1" width="1"/> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:55:57 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:77:98 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/G-9ruqasLhg/77 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/77 <p>Rails Magazine Issue #3 is now available as a free pdf (52 pages) at <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/issues/3">http://railsmagazine.com/issues/3</a></p> <p>Our best edition so far, this is packed with great technical content, interviews and photography. In this issue:</p> <ul> <li>Create a code snippet app</li> <li>Working on a typical Open Source Rails project</li> <li>Theme Support</li> <li>Observer and Singleton design patterns</li> <li>JRuby monitoring with <span class="caps">JMX</span></li> <li>Ruby Web Frameworks: A Dive into Waves</li> <li>How to Implement Automated Testing</li> <li>Ruby on Rails &amp; Flex</li> <li>Workflow solutions with <span class="caps">AASM</span></li> </ul> <p><em>Chris Wanstrath</em> (founder of Github) shares his learnings in building a successful business with Open Source.Interviews with <em>Carl Mercier</em>, <em>Ilya Grigorik</em> and <em>Ryan Singer</em>. Illustrated by <em><span class="caps">DHH</span></em>.</p> <p>If you&#8217;d like to support this effort, please <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/publish">contribute an article</a>.</p> <p>Join us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rails-Magazine/23044874683">Facebook</a> or follow us on <a href="http://twitter.com/railsmagazine">Twitter</a>.</p> <p>Thank you,<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor-in-Chief | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/gw3P-So4C1E" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:22:52 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:65:84 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/gw3P-So4C1E/65 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/65 <p>Rails Magazine Issue #3 is now available (in print) at <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/issues/3">http://railsmagazine.com/issues/3</a></p> <p>This is our best edition so far, be sure to check it out! It has 52 pages packed with great technical content, interviews and photography.</p> <p>The free digital edition (<span class="caps">PDF</span>) is well underway and will be available in less than 2 weeks.</p> <p>Thank you,<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor-in-Chief | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/2afNhD2HYRE" height="1" width="1"/> Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:33:57 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:47:66 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/2afNhD2HYRE/47 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/47 <p>RailsConf 2009 Special Report is now available as a free pdf (12 pages) at <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/issues/2">http://railsmagazine.com/issues/2</a></p> <p>This special edition includes in-depth commentary, Rails 3 perspectives, photography, pointers to related resources and interviews with Ryan Bates (of railscasts.com), Geoffrey Grosenbach (peepcode.com) and Ben Johnson (binarylogic.com).</p> <p>If you&#8217;d like to support this effort, please take our survey: <a href="http://survey.railsmagazine.com">http://survey.railsmagazine.com</a>, and consider contributing an article.</p> <p>Thank you,<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor-in-Chief | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/z46dFJ-ipNM" height="1" width="1"/> Wed, 13 May 2009 13:18:29 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:46:64 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/z46dFJ-ipNM/46 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/46 <p>RailsConf 2009 Special Report is now available (in print) at <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/issues/2">http://railsmagazine.com/issues/2</a></p> <p>This special edition includes in-depth commentary, Rails 3 perspectives, photography, pointers to related resources and an interview section. It is printed in glossy full-color and can be ordered in US, UK and Canada for $3 (+ postage).</p> <p>The free digital edition (<span class="caps">PDF</span>) is underway and will be available in less than 2 weeks.</p> <p>Thank you,<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor-in-Chief | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/KqHMi4IOYTY" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 08 May 2009 08:16:02 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:43:61 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/KqHMi4IOYTY/43 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/43 <p>Rails Magazine announces the editorial board and initial core team! Team member profiles are online at <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/team">http://railsmagazine.com/team</a>.</p> <p>Thank you and congratulations to all the new team members!<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor-in-Chief | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/_CEH3Xq7ETQ" height="1" width="1"/> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:09:51 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:36:54 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/_CEH3Xq7ETQ/36 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/36 <p>I am happy to announce the availability of the free, digital edition of Rails Magazine (Issue #1)!</p> <p>Get it here: <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/issues/1">http://railsmagazine.com/issues/1</a></p> <p>If you&#8217;d like to support this effort, please take our survey: <a href="http://survey.railsmagazine.com">http://survey.railsmagazine.com</a>, and consider contributing an article.</p> <p>Thank you,<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/rb2eToOKpaQ" height="1" width="1"/> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:34:38 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:35:42 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/rb2eToOKpaQ/35 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/35 <p>What a shame it isn&#8217;t available in Australia/NZ or I&#8217;d have bought one. Look forward to the online version!</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/9FvbklMzUa0" height="1" width="1"/> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:39:41 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:28:31 KieranP http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/9FvbklMzUa0/28 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/28 <p>I am happy to announce the very first issue of Rails Magazine (<a href="http://railsmagazine.com">http://railsmagazine.com</a>)!</p> <p>This edition has 36 pages full of quality content. It is printed in glossy full-color and can be ordered in US, UK and Canada for 8 <span class="caps">USD</span> (+ postage).</p> <p>The free digital edition (<span class="caps">PDF</span>) is well underway and will be available globally in about 2 weeks.</p> <p>I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the magazine, and invite others to do the same.</p> <p>Please visit our site for previews and additional details.</p> <p>If you like the idea of a high-quality, free Rails publication, please help us promote Rails Magazine. Tweet, blog, link to us, join us on Facebook and otherwise spread the word: <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/share">http://railsmagazine.com/share</a>!</p> <p>Thank you,<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/9FvbklMzUa0" height="1" width="1"/> Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:48:13 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:28:30 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/9FvbklMzUa0/28 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/28 <p>I am pleased to announce the launch of <br /> <a href="http://railsmagazine.com">Rails Magazine</a>, the first free periodical dedicated to the Ruby and Rails communities.</p> <p>The magazine&#8217;s mission is to provide timely and high quality content to the community. Magazine issues will be available free of charge as downloadable PDFs or for a nominal fee as a print edition.</p> <p>We are looking for original articles. Whether you are a Ruby beginner or a Rails wizard making regular core contributions, anyone is welcome to submit articles. Check out the <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/publish">Top 10 Reasons</a> to get published in Rails Magazine, or our <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/faq"><span class="caps">FAQ</span></a> for additional details.</p> <p>Just send us an <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/contact">email</a> outlining your article idea, or browse the <a href="http://railsmagazine.com/forums/3">suggested topics</a> to see if you&#8217;d like to tackle any of them.</p> <p>Thank you,<br /> Olimpiu Metiu<br /> Editor | Rails Magazine</p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~4/vwlb8Pimo_Y" height="1" width="1"/> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:18:53 -0000 railsmagazine.com:1:14:15 editor http://feeds.railsmagazine.com/~r/RailsMagazine/~3/vwlb8Pimo_Y/14 http://railsmagazine.com/forums/1/topics/14