Entries Related to ‘Rails’

Open source application development frameworks have increased in both popularity and number over the past decade. Today, developers can choose from a wide range of frameworks, each of which offers a unique combination of features, limitations, and benefits. But choosing the right framework can be a challenge. This article offers advice on how to approach the evaluation process and pick the framework that best meets your needs.

The Apache HTTP Server is one of the most widely used open source software packages, so it’s no surprise that we get lots of questions about Apache installation procedures. Fortunately, we have tons of experience with Apache installations, and we’ve distilled our years of experience into this handy tutorial.

If you need fast indexing and searching, especially if you’re doing Ruby on Rails development, Ferret is worth checking out. But there’s one funky thing that we’ve come across lately and wanted to share — something that works well when running in development mode but that causes bizarre issues in production mode.

Learn to deploy a Ruby on Rails application into a production-ready JRuby on Rails environment running GlassFish.

In this tutorial, we cover setting up your Mac environment to use Glassfish as the server to run your Ruby on Rails projects.

We’ve developed this comparison matrix to help you learn about the differences between – and relative benefits of – the most popular open source Web frameworks: Shale, Struts, Wicket, WebWork, Rails, JBossSeam, MyFaces and Spring. Although Rails is not a Java project, we included it given its popularity. To help you make a decision about which Web Framework to use, we went to the experts — members of the OpenLogic Expert Community who are committers and expert users of the projects — and asked them to answer a bunch of questions about each project.