…to extend the platform. And this energy is part of the reason why it's one of the most popular CMS platforms around.
Drupal Can Sometimes Be Slow
The dark side of having such an easy-to-extend platform and a welcoming community is that anyone can extend Drupal. Anyone with sufficient PHP skills and the gumption to dig into the API docs can write modules. As of today, there are over 25,000 developers on Drupal.org , and over 21,000 modules.
This means the Drupal …
- Darwinweb: Drupal vs Rails
- AdaRuby: Why You Should Be Grateful for Coding in Ruby
- Unspace Blog: Why geeks change careers
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Drupal in oz
- jystewart.net | notes, tips and commentary by James Stewart: Friday Links - January 8th 2010
- Giles Bowkett: Terrific Testimonial For (And Success Story Driven By) My "Handcuffs" Video On Self-Promotion
…passionate developers from all over the world. Known as a Content Management System ( CMS), Drupal excels at creating websites, blogs and intranets. But it can also be used for so much more. Today, Drupal powers a whopping 2% of all the sites in the world , including some major installations like The Economist , MTV and the White House .
A popular slogan in Drupal-land is "come for the software, stay for the community." This speaks …
- jystewart.net | notes, tips and commentary by James Stewart: Continuing to consider Drupal
- High Scalability: Mollom Architecture - Killing Over 373 Million Spams at 100 Requests Per Second
- Global Nerdy: Drupal Camp Toronto 2010
- Giles Bowkett: Terrific Testimonial For (And Success Story Driven By) My "Handcuffs" Video On Self-Promotion
- : Translation contexts for Drupal 7
- www.myowndb.com blogs: New website launched
…MODX , a provider of an Open Source Content Management System ( CMS) that supports all modern web standards and integrates with existing infrastructure to give you complete control over your online presence.
Tag1 Consulting , a Drupal focused consulting firm specializing in performance and scalability for the entire software stack.
About the Affiliate Program
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- How Software is Built: Interview with James Vasile - Software Freedom Law Center
- Global Nerdy: Drupal Camp Toronto 2010
- jystewart.net | notes, tips and commentary by James Stewart: Continuing to consider Drupal
- www.myowndb.com blogs: New website launched
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 11-6-09
Ruby on Rails lacks a CMS with the mindshare of, say, WordPress, which is good, because every unpatched Ruby on Rails CMS delivered to a non-technical company to serve as their website or backend to their mobile application will be compromised .
There are many developers who are not presently active on a Ruby on Rails project who nonetheless have a vulnerable Rails application running on localhost:3000. If they do, eventually, their local machine will be compromised . (Any …
- Ruby-coloured glasses: [SOLVED] undefined method `name' for "Ascii85":String
- Heroku: Rails Security Vulnerability
- Paul Gross's Blog: Scaling PostgreSQL at Braintree: Four Years of Evolution
- SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 121: How to Make Your Rails App Roar With the Power of Lion
- RailsCasts: #387 Cache Digests
- RubyFlow - Search for jruby: Fixing multithreading for Rails in development mode
Oleg , tired of battling with brittle Content Management Systems and their lack of proper rails integration, built his own prototype on that same Mexico adventure. He aptly named it Comfortable Mexican Sofa ( CMS) based on the place where he coded the prototype. We've now shifted to calling the CMS ‘ Comfy' , we Open Sourced it a couple years back, and have now added a number of modular components to the system - https://github.com/comfy .
Hesham , one of …
- Rails Rumble: Free Stuff!
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #632
…company who shall remain nameless. They had also paid for a content management system ( CMS) which they had not received. The site would have taken less than a day to put together.
On the contrary, there seems to be an expectation from the SME sector that a high quality website should be somewhere in the vicinity of $ 2,000 or less.
The price is right?
While I don't think there's an easy general answer to the title of this post, here at The Frontier Group we have our own …
- Rails Inside: Radiant CMS Trying "Open Source Design" - Help Needed!
- A Piece of Our Mind: 2009 Summer Portfolio Showcase
- Heroku: Fork Our Docs
- RubyLearning Blog: Patrick McKenzie Winner RPCFN #5
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 8-10-09
- ronin coder: Django for Rails devs
…a Bad Idea. It's complicated, it has edge cases even the designers don't understand, and it appears to be trying to fix a problem that doesn't really bother most rubyists.
Why Django and Rails CMS Are So Rare - Well, they're not, really. (See the list I compiled a few years back). But they sure don't have a lot of impact. An industry veteran thinks about why this is.
- WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice: Ruby Refinements landed in trunk
A Lightweight ' CMS' Using Ruby and Google Drive
An interesting approach to content management. Let users enter text in a Google Drive spreadsheet, grab it with Ruby, and use the data to create your content or templates locally.
A 'yield' Gotcha Every Ruby Developer Should Be Aware of
It's not a true yield gotcha but is something you might trip over nonetheless regarding earlier than expected returns. Luckily, 'ensure' blocks …
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: Clarifying the Roles of the .gemspec and Gemfile
- Matthew Bass: Ruby Hoedown 2012 recap
- RailsLab: State of the Stack: A Ruby on Rails Benchmarking Report - 05 October 2010
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1004
- Riding Rails - home: Rails Has Great Documentation
- Rails Inside: Formtastic: Forms Made Crazy Easy for Rails Developers
Swimming in a sea of interests.
motioncasts - Screencasts for RubyMotion.
Red Dwarf - Produce a Google Maps heatmap of people who have starred a GitHub repository.
ComfortableMexicanSofa - CMS engine for Rails 3.
Page Layers - Mac app to save web pages as layered PSD or plain PNG.
Box Anemometer - Monitor for slow MySQL queries, implemented as a PHP application.
- MySQL Performance Blog: Visualization tools for pt-query-digest tables
- Blog | The Working Group: Our first #nerdlearn-aversary
tl;dr
Use Unicorn unless you need to run multiple applications on the same host, such as testing environments or shared CMS instances.
Unicorn and Passenger fundamentally differ in how they operate. There are a few similarities, however. Both have a master process that can spawn workers; both fork off workers from the master process; and both run Rack-based applications in addition to supporting older rails versions. What follows is a summary of the way the two application servers work, their benefits and problems.
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #961
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 10-12-09
- Andrzej on Software: A Guide to Deploying Rails Applications
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Phusion Passenger 2.2.8 released
- Codeshooter's Weblog: Setting a far future expires header for your Rails app static assets in your Nginx server
- Brightbox Ruby Blog: NGINX Passenger 3 Ubuntu packages