Last night was yet another successful Toronto Ruby on Rails Nite put on by Corina Newby. The Toronto ruby community is rocking, evidenced by the large turnouts and fresh faces we see everytime. I’d guess 40-50 of Toronto’s best and brightest Rails developers filled out the room. The unspace guys put on some much appreciated [...]
Read moreIf you’re getting to this page from searching “Rails vs Merb” I suggest you read/view this presentation I did http://work.rowanhick.com/2008/06/11/toronto-rails-night-merb-presentation/
Following on from my presentation last week, I had someone mention I should look at Merb+Datamapper if I’m looking for something awesomely fast. So I decided to put it to the test. This is a *completely* [...]
Tutorial/presentation given to Toronto Rails Project nite on how to optimise Ruby on Rails/Activerecord for high performance sites. Details of :select and :include problem in ActiveRecord and how to work around it.
Read moreRowan is a Product Development Manager, specialising in architecting, developing and putting web applications into production - in particular Ruby on Rails based apps. He lives in Toronto, Canada but speaks in a funny accent as he's originally from New Zealand. He's been working in the software and web business for over a decade. This blog covers Web Application development and deployment in the real world, dealing with topics from business fundamentals to Ruby on Rails, Merb, PHP, Flex, MySQL, Apache and more.
