Hongli Lai:
Phusion Passenger Lite consists of an Nginx core. Nginx is known to be extremely scalable, high-performance and lightweight. You do not need to have Nginx already installed; this is automatically taken care of. You also do not need to have any Nginx experience: Nginx is hidden from the user but its power is automatically utilized.
Includes more prep-work for Rails 3, conventions for the use of flash (the store), XSS prevention, and more.
I do have a problem running my RSpec 1.3.0 suite in my app at the moment and haven’t really found out what’s causing it. Expectations on ActiveRecord classes cause the specs to blow up. Hopefully this is cleared shortly.
The magical 1.0 release happened for the remarkably usable Ruby web application DSL. It’s got a new template rendering engine, compiled templates, lots of small new helpers, and a boatload of under the hood improvements.
Big One-Oh release of the most awesome Solr full-text search plugin for Ruby and Ruby on Rails. This release focusses on the current 1.4 generation of Solr released last November.
Major new features include extensions to the already splendid faceting support such as multiselect facets and named field facets, new field types, session proxies, support for class reloading, and deletion by query.
Upgrading from a pre-1.0 release is easy, just follow the instructions in the linked blog post.
Geoff Grosenbach’s take on the well-hung Python vs. Ruby debate that has been cooking for the last hundred years or so. I agree wholeheartedly on all fronts. And it’s a beautifully styled article to begin with.
