Simon Willison’s Weblog

OpenID makes web identities real and appealing. DHH has caught the OpenID bug. Expect to see a flurry of activity around OpenID in the Rails community over the next few weeks.

# 26th February 2007, 10:31 am / rails, openid, dhh

Rails 1.2.1 Impression. I hadn’t seen assert_select before, which lets you unit test generated HTML using CSS selectors; a really neat idea.

# 15th February 2007, 9:14 am / assertselect, rails, unittests, css

A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels. 4000 requests/second on 48 mongrels behind a hardware load balancer.

# 5th February 2007, 12:38 am / mongrel, rails, scaling

Rails vs Django Paper and Slides. Even if you’ve already read the paper you should check out the slides. Really good flow, clear and clever use of diagrams.

# 24th December 2006, 12:43 pm / django, rails, presenting, slides

Django on Dreamhost: incomplete headers. Fix this problem on Dreamhost by renaming django.fcgi to dispatch.fcgi (they special-case for Rails users; Django users can tag along).

# 17th December 2006, 9:36 am / django, rails, dreamhost, fastcgi

On the total nondisclosure of the 8/9/06 [Rails] security vulnerability. The best argument I’ve seen in favour of full disclosure.

# 10th August 2006, 2:53 pm / rails, disclosure, security

Rails 1.1.5: Mandatory security patch. Upgrade now, and spread the word.

# 9th August 2006, 8:55 pm / rails, security

punupgeek.com on Active Resource. Looks like 37 signals might be looking in to scaling across multiple servers using web services.

# 26th June 2006, 11:12 am / activeresource, scaling, 37-signals, rails

XML.com: REST on Rails. Matt Biddulph’s Rails mixin provides an instant REST interface to an ActiveRecord model.

# 4th November 2005, 1:47 pm / matt-biddulph, rest, rails

The BBC’s programme catalogue (on Rails). Matt Biddulph’s current project is insanely cool.

# 31st October 2005, 7:39 pm / matt-biddulph, rails, bbc

Ruby on Rails and FastCGI: Scaling using processes instead of threads. Relates to the shared-nothing architecture.

# 12th April 2005, 2:06 pm / rails, scaling, fastcgi