Nitro is seeing some action again recently, which is mighty good, obviously. Nitro is a free software framework (under the liberal BSD licence) for building wep applications quickly, utilizing the lightweight Ruby language.
The 0.42 release is very outdated compared to the repo version, so we’re all preparing for a dazzling 0.50.
The team has […]
I’m finding myself slowly emerged in the Nitro community. Nitro is a ruby framework for the rapid development of web applications. Another such framework, Ruby on Rails, has gotten a lot of press. The alternatives are less known :
Camping
IOWA
Ramaze
Nitro
Nitro has a clean, flexible and extensible design. But there are as I see it two big […]
I’m seriously looking into unicode stuff in ruby. Ruby strings are essentially just arrays of bytes, so they’re not very encoding aware. Many have been asking for proper unicode support in ruby, but….
It’s hard to make the string class internally based on an array of code points, for instance, without breaking existing code
ruby comes from […]
During the week this site will move to a new provider. Doring this transition the site might be temporarily unavailable.
I’m moving from Webhost4life to Dreamhost for a number of reasons :
Apache, so finally mod_rewrite, hence clean URL’s
Linux based with SSH access, anything a nerd could wish for
Support for Ruby/Rails
Create your own subversion repositories
Webhost4life appears to […]