Efficiency with Rails

Sometimes, I can’t believe the amount of work I can accomplish with Ruby on Rails. Today, I finished coding a RSS feed aggregator that generates aggregated RSS feeds for a Joomla web site (it merges posts from multiple feeds into one single daily feed for Joomla). Import/export tab-delimited list of channels Fetch RSS posts and [...]

Rails 1.2.x + Ruby 1.8.6 + Snow Leopard: the missing link

Yesterday, I migrated to Snow Leopard.  After a day of file transfers, disk formatting, apps installation, password and license keys recovery, I finally was ready to install the Rails stack.  It’s great to do a clean install, we can get rid of the crap that was installed in the last 2 years. Today, I spent [...]