Nineteen Rails Secrets To Web Development

Ruby on Rails has increased in popularity among web developers seeking a solid framework for their applications, and some helpful hints can make it even better. A number of resources for the Peter Cooper since May 29th of this year, offers some nice insights into Rails and the underlying Ruby object-oriented language. His latest It's much like acts_as_tree, but with the added benefit that you can select all of the children (and their own descendants) of a node with a single query. A BackgrounDRb, that will be recognizable for its utility. This daemon allows the Rails application to send it tasks, and the daemon will complete them in the background. "It's extremely powerful, and useful for many tasks such as sending hundreds of e-mails, fetching URLs, and other things you don't want to slow down the request times for your main app," said Cooper. Be sure to check out the rest of Cooper's list for more excellent insights into working with Rails more effectively. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for murdok covering technology and business.