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Why Rails Will Not Reign Supreme (and why you shouldn’t want it to)

March 22, 2008

A while ago, Christian Sepulveda wrote an interesting post Why Rails will Reign Supreme. This is the latest variation on a theme that’s beginning to resound in the Rails community, and I can’t help but to disagree.
EDIT : Christian also has a follow-up post, Why Rails will Reign Supreme, revisited .
For the record, I [...]

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Sass production woes in Rails

March 20, 2008

Rails 2.0+ introduced our team at CitrusByte to a Sass woe: our sass file would not regenerate. We would be able to regenerate it when ssh’ing into the site and starting the server in an environment other than production. Obviously not an ideal solution. So, what’s the fix?
Place the following in any ruby file in [...]

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Effortlessly farm work to an EC2 instance without batting an eye

February 20, 2008

Inline media uploading and processing in ruby
Today, we released a new gem to make integrating off-site processing easy. With this gem and utilizing Amazon’s EC2 cloud and S3 storage back-end, you can easily process media files in a non-blocking, threaded way and do it all inline with the rest of your application.
First download the gem [...]

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