Entries Related to ‘Rails’

The Redmine project management system includes Gantt charts, a calendar, a roadmap, and other helpful features you can use to keep track of what’s going on with your software development projects.

Nowadays, few enterprise websites run without PHP, the dynamic scripting language that serves as the “P” in the LAMP stack. Coding PHP applications is relatively easy thanks to the abundance of high-quality PHP frameworks available. Here’s a high-level overview of several of these open source frameworks, noting their scalability, maturity, licenses, and commercial support. While they may differ in many ways, they have one thing in common: they cost nothing to try and to use.

While you can install any software on the Linux desktop with just a couple of mouse clicks, enterprise apps are a different story, because they require a lot of infrastructure software, from high-end web and database servers to basic libraries. As a system administrator you may spend hours putting together components before you can deploy an app on the network. Fortunately, some convenient software tools can do the grunt work for you.

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.