Institutional Knowledge

Wherein we talk of launching a new app and our awesome new production server setup.

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Wherein we show off new stuff.

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Now has a Google Group. Join up and introduce yourself.

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Wherein we declare our use of Rails to the world. Again.

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Recently there has been a lot of buzz about Streamlined for Rails apps. Basically it’s smart scaffolding that understands table relationships. Again, that’s the most basic way of talking about it, but it will suffice for what we’re doing right now.

One of the things that I don’t think people understand about Streamlined is […]

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ProjectLines of CodeLines of Test CodeEquipment Disposal297160System Status430328Room Reservations379293Omni (In Progress)273346

Omni presently has no user interface or logic controlling the handling of information. It’s just models, associations, and tests. It’ll be interesting to see how big it will grow over the next couple of weeks.

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Wherein we develop a CAS plugin for Rails.

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Via Riding Rails we learn of a content management project, RadiantCMS, which looks quite sweet.

Things called a CMS are notoriously complex. Cheers for keeping it simple.

No truer words…

Could Chico use something like this? Doubtful. Will we keep our eye on it? Of course!

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When Rails 1.1 came out we didn’t want to break our existing apps (not that we were doing anything that would have broke, but why take that risk) so we did the prudent thing and “froze” our apps with the gems for Rails 1.0. That Rails allows you to do this is such a […]

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Wherein we start to love ruby.

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