The iPhone and iPod touch made Mobile Safari the most popular mobile browser in the United States. Although Mobile Safari is more than adequate at rendering normal Web pages, many Web developers created versions of applications aimed at the iPhone. Here in Part 2 of this "Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse" series, we learn the common use of drill-down lists as a navigation method

The iPhone and iPod touch made Mobile Safari the most popular mobile browser in the United States. Although Mobile Safari is more than adequate at rendering normal Web pages, many Web developers created versions of applications aimed at the iPhone. This "Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse" series shows how to use Ruby On Rails on the server side to identify and serve custom content to Mobile Safari.

While a lot of attention has been focused on Twitter with questions about whether Ruby on Rails scales, LinkedIn has been quietly running a RoR application on Facebook that is beating down around 1 billion page view per month. Bumpersticker, a relatively trivial Facebook application that allows you to create a cartoon that you can put on your Facebook friends

Though we won't claim that Ruby Reports (Ruport) will make your reporting tasks fun, we think it manages to make them a whole lot more tolerable. Ruport doesn't try to write your reports for you, it just provides you a solid foundation to start with. Using Ruport as a basis for your reporting applications will help you keep your code clean and organized, and keep you from going postal the next time someone asks you for a printable version of your finely crafted in-browser report.

I recieved an interesting Sitepoint newsletter the other day which talked about bundling CSS and Javascript ressources (or “assets” like that’s called in Rails talk) to achieve faster page loads. This caught my attention specifically because I experienced the need to repackage many small CSS files on the fly a while back when I worked on a large CMS-type system.

Author of Beginning Rails (Apress) and creator of the ever-popular Scribbish theme, Jeffrey Allan Hardy is a partner at Unspace, a boutique Rails consulting shop in Toronto. He lives somewhere in the deep Canadian wilderness with his wife, his dog, and a cat.

I’m using the IRB.conf[:PROMPT] configuration option to create a custom Rails prompt that displays the current project name (which it assumes is the same as the PWD). Note that I’m also creating a convenience alias for AR::Base#find and enabling logging to STDOUT. Fun.