Inchoate Curmudgeon

A month or so ago I stumbled across a sad blog post by Jason Hoffman at Joyent. It described the utter apathy Joyent ran into trying to purchase some Sun kit about a year and a half ago. I know things have changed in our relationship; Sun shared a booth with Joyent at the recent […]

Woo-hoo! Now I’m off to try out vnics in Solaris 11! I’ve encountered one minor issue, so far. Since the Solaris installer is 32 bit, I needed to create a 32 bit vm for the install. VMware was blowing up trying to get Solaris to install inside a 64 bit vm. I’ll need to futz with […]

I’m setting up a development environment on a Solaris x86 machine (well, actually a VMware virtual machine) and have a couple of goals:

Use zones to set up, and clone, AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) and Rails development environments. The idea is once I get things the way I want, I should be able to quickly set […]

There are a number of great resources on the Web explaining how to combine VNC with SSH so that you can get a remote display of a desktop. The exact combination of tools will depend somewhat on the operating systems of your client and host machines, but there are a host of options for Windows, […]

The theme of the closing keynote by Dave Thomas at the Rails Conference was Rails is Love. But there was an undertone of anxiety in the keynote, and throughout the conference really, that Ruby might somehow become unlovely. The Ruby on Rails community has exploded. There are over 8,900 people on the Rails […]

At some level, going to the Rails Conference has brought out the absolute worst in me. This is mostly because people ask me what I do, and I’m with an audience where I can really tell them. In the keynote this morning, Cyndi Mitchell described the current state in IT as being bloated and corrupt. I […]

It’s very simple. Flex on Rails is hot, and your hubby is a Rock Star. (Or maybe its the other way around, I wouldn’t know.) I got nothing in compensation for this message. Well, maybe a tee-shirt, but it doesn’t fit. Seriously, the Flexible Rails BOF way outstripped attendance expectations. Clearly, using Adobe Flex to […]

railsconf2007

Justin Ball has posted a blog entry with more information on the session about Rails Routing, which he also attended.

railsconf2007, ror

David A. Black from Ruby Power and Light gave a tutorial on Rails routing. Rails routes requests based on the URL. This rules based. However, routes are also used to derive URLs from link specifications in views.

The rails routing mechanism sees incoming URLs, slices, applies rules, and ascertains the response. The routing mechanism performs URL generation […]