When Ruby on Rails burst onto the scene in 2004, it excited web developers by showing that you could build next generation apps quickly and efficiently. Rails was one of the first frameworks to embrace Ajax, giving everyone the power to do partial...
Framework development comes with a whole different set of tradeoffs than application development. While code in applications is usually in service of a consumer-facing feature, framework code is by definition used by other developers writing unkno...
Rails 3 has added quite a number of new ways to extend the framework. These include swapping in a new ORM that still works cleanly with ActionPack, a brand new instrumentation system, and ways to build custom controllers, mixing and matching the p...
