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alias_method_chain

Wilhelm Chung had a nice followup to my post last week about Rails Unusual Architecture He provides more details about how alias_method_chain works and even includes a few...

Rails’ Unusual Architecture

There has been surprisingly little written about how Rails is implemented If you Google for "architecture Rails" you'll find plenty of articles that describe Rails as a web...

Dynamically Scoped Variables

Just as Peter continues to be amazed by Wikipedia, so do I Today I noticed that David Jenkins, who I used to work with, wrote an article about a programminglanguage called Magik...

REST Controller for RAILS

Time to continue the REST and Rails theme Rails' most egregious violation of REST is that it exposes object methodsin URIs: http://myrailsappcom/users/show ...

REST Leading To Rails

From 2000 to 2004, Peter and I drove the development of GE Smallworld's InternetApplication Suite which made is possible for customers to put their complex-GIS applications onto...

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