Rails Magazine Issue #7

We are happy to bring you the Issue #7, 2010 of Rails Magazine. We are trying our best to fall into a regular publishing schedule. In this edition, we have a very nice collection of articles. I am also very happy to have penned down the editorial for this edition.

In the 28-pages of full color, we bring you the following:

• Editorial by Rupak Ganguly
• An Overview of Refinery – a Rails CMS by David Jones
• Converting A Rails Site to Refinery CMS by Christopher W. Lehman
• Auditing plugin by Mihai Târnovan and Gabriel Târnovan
• Hobo – Making Application Development on Rails Even Faster by Dave Reynolds
• Installing Ruby on Rails on Windows by Victor Thiago
• Simple Unobtrusive Ruby/Rails Debugging by Stephen Rycyk
• A Well Kept Secret, Ruby and Cryptography by Richard Penwell

The digital edition (PDF) is available for free at http://www.railsmagazine.com/issues/7. You can also grab a printed copy available in US, UK and Canada (7.60 USD + shipping).

Download the free digital edition of Rails Magazine Issue #7.

Rails Magazine Issue #6

I am very happy to announce the release of the Rails Magazine Issue #6. It took us a while to get this issue out but it is better late than never. We improved a lot on the backend side and revamped into a new automated publishing system. This will in future enable us to streamline the author submission, editing and publishing process. Olimpiu and Raluca Metiu, the husband/wife combo, worked very hard to get the new publishing system up.

In this beautiful 36-pages full color issue you will find some very in-depth articles and a couple of nice interviews. The issue consists of the following:

• Beautifying Your Markup With Haml and Sass by Ethan Gunderson
• Scaling Rails by Gonçalo Silva
• Interview with Sarah Allen by Rupak Ganguly
• Data Extraction with Hpricot by Jonas Alves
• Deployment with Capistrano by Omar Meeky
• Fake Data – The Secret of Great Testing by Robert Hall
• RubyConf India 2010 coverage by Judy Das
• Previous and Next Buttons by James Schorr
• RVM – The Ruby Version Manager by Markus Dreier
• Interview with Michael Day of Prince XML by Olimpiu Metiu

The digital edition (PDF) is available for free at http://www.railsmagazine.com/issues/6. You can also grab a printed copy  available in US, UK and Canada (8.80 USD + shipping).

Download the free digital edition of Rails Magazine Issue #6.

Themed in beautiful Winter art and pictures, Rails Magazine released their Issue #5 free digital edition to the whole Ruby and Rails community worldwide.

It is the largest issue since we started, with a whopping 65 pages in full-color, of excellent articles from various authors covering various topics.

It is a Holiday gift from Rails Magazine to all of the Ruby and Rails enthusiasts. You can download the print edition from here.

This issue covers various topics and builds upon earlier articles in the series. The following is a synopsis of the material available in this issue:

• Authentication with Gigya by Curtis Jennings Schofield
• Background Processing in Rails by Erik Andrejko
• On Your Rails (and Ruby) Education by Bob Martens
• Sinatra: Fast Web Application in Ruby by Carlo Pecchia
• Sprockets by Starr Horne
• Adding Pre-made Extensions to Radiant CMS by Casper Fabricius
• Protecting Your Application From Impostors by Gavin Morrice
• Geography division select tag by Satish Kota
• RailsBridge: Rebooting the Rails Community by Mike Gunderloy
• Prince: Powerful PDF Generation by Michael Bleigh
• Ruby C Extension Development by Claudio Fiorini
• Using the Twitter API with Ruby by Brian Rivard
• Continuous Integration Tools in Rails by Saurabh Bhatia
• Active Scaffold by Payal Gupta
• Implement a Full Text Search Engine with Xapian by Amit Mathur

Keeping up with the spirit, we are trying to get the schedule for the magazine a bit more predictable. We are hoping we can get out 6 issues or even 12 issues for the coming year. Time will tell. But, whatever the schedule is or however many issues we can release, we will surely make sure we get quality content over to our readers.

We welcome new authors to write for us. Please contact me (rupak /dot/ ganguly /at/ railsmagazine /dot/ com) or Olimpiu Metiu (editor /at/  railsmagazine /dot/ com for details. You can also visit the official website for Rails Magazine.

If you have any feedback, please do write to us or participate in the survey to tells us what you want to read.

Dubbed as “Future of Rails”, Rails Magazine released Issue #4 in print. You can download the print edition from here. This issue brings 32-pages, filled with exclusive RubyKaigi 2009 conference coverage, in-depth articles, interviews with David Heinemeier Hansson, Matz, Yehuda Katz, Tom Enebo and Koichi Sasada.

The RubyKaigi 2009 coverage provides a nice roundup about the conference with articles, photos and session information. The interviews are great giving insights into Rails 3, Ruby 1.9 and JRuby. And, last but not the least, this issue also brings a wealth of knowledge via the fine articles on various topics.

I thoroughly enjoyed interviewing Yehuda Katz and Tom Enebo and I thank them both for their participation.

If you have any feedback, please do write to us or participate in the survey to tells us what you want to read.

Please be on the lookout for the free downloadable digital version which will be released soon!

Table of Contents:

A Word From the Editor by Olimpiu Metiu

Background Processing with Delayed_Job by James Harrison

Generating PDF with ODF templates by Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas

Interview with Yehuda Katz by Yehuda Katz and Rupak Ganguly

Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson by Mark Coates

Feel the Radiance with Radiant CMS by Saurabh Bhatia

Interview with Thomas Enebo by Thomas Enebo and Rupak Ganguly

Oracle Tips and Tricks by Greg Donald

Ruby Kaigi Rails Magazine Exclusive Coverage by Khaled al Habache

RubyKaigi 2009 Roundup by Ehab El-Badry

Interview with Matz by Yukihiro Matsumoto and Muhammad Ali

Interview with Koichi Sasada by Koichi Sasada and Muhammad Ali

The print edition of Rails Magazine Issue #3 was released today. The free online digital version is soon to follow in a week. You can buy the print edition now. I am very proud to have done three interviews with big names in the Rails world: Carl Mercier, Ilya Grigorik and Ryan Singer. Apart from the interviews this issue is a big one. It has illustrations by DHH. It is packed with nice articles:

• Create a code snippet app
• Working on a typical Open Source Rails project
• Theme Support
• Observer and Singleton design patterns
• JRuby monitoring with JMX
• Ruby Web Frameworks: A Dive into Waves
• How to Implement Automated Testing
• Ruby on Rails & Flex
• Workflow solutions with AASM

Please check back our site for our next regular edition – coming soon!

It was great fun to work on this issue. Let me know in the comments if you liked it. It helps us to bring you stuff that you like.

After Rails Magazine released the print version of the Special Edition – RailsConf 2009 Report, today they released the downloadable digital edition (PDF). Go grab it from the Rails Magazine website here and while you are there, take the survey to tell us what you like or dislike. Do not forget to share the news.

Apart from me putting in a lot of effort on this special edition as an editor, I managed to get out an article and also landed two interviews with Ryan Bates (http://railscasts.com) and Geoffrey Grosenbach (http://peepcode.com).

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This concise issue of Rails Magazine covers RailsConf 2009 – in-depth commentary, photography and pointers to related resources.

Interviews with attendees:

• Ryan Bates (railscasts.com) by Rupak Ganguly
• Geoffrey Grosenbach (peepcode.com) by Rupak Ganguly
• Ben Johnson (binarylogic.com) by Bob Martens

If you did not attend RailsConf, this is one of the best ways to get up to speed on the conference, what’s planned for Rails 3 and related information. For those who attended, this should provide a good recap and insights by presenting different perspectives.

Please check back our site for our next regular edition – coming soon!

It was great fun to work on this special report on RailsConf. Let me know in comments if you liked it. It helps us to bring you stuff that you like.

Special Edition – RailsConf 2009 Report!

This concise issue of Rails Magazine covers RailsConf 2009 – in-depth commentary, photography, pointers to related resources and an interview section.

If you did not attend RailsConf, this is one of the best ways to get up to speed on the conference, what’s planned for Rails 3 and related information.

For those who attended, this should provide a good recap and insights by presenting different perspectives.

As usual, we will provide this issue as a free pdf download in maximum two weeks. The print edition is already available and can be purchased through MagCloud for $3.

Please check back our site for our next regular edition – coming soon!

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Table of Contents

A Word From the Editor by Olimpiu Metiu

RailsConf 2009 Roundup – Have it your way… by Casper Fabricius

Resources by Khaled al Habache

The Unofficial Guide to What’s New in Rails 3 by Rupak Ganguly

Interview with Ben Johnson by Ben Johnson and Bob Martens

Artwork by Duncan Davidson