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How many of you are using Rails: 1. As the primary development tool at your Day Job 2. As a small part of your Day Job 3. Not using Rails in your Day Job, but are using Ruby 4. For OS/outside work/hobby -- sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/

...gle point of information for all know security holes and fixes (even if they aren''t Rails specific). Ideally information on CSRF should be merged into the "Securing your rails" book: http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/8 Feel free to correct my mistakes! -- sam http://www.magpiebrain.com/

I noticed on Backpack.com that form input elements (the checkboxes) were making remote calls using onClick. I couldn''t find this behavior in the API - did I miss something or is this just a 37signals addition? - Derek

This is related to Selenium/Watir usage along side webrat in story testing. MHS_Testing and Rspec-ui provide some great help for testing through frameworks like Selenium/Watir. But there is something missing, Webrat has changed the landscape somewhat with Acceptance Tests/Story Driven development. Now I have a choice: 1. Tests and rails process run as one test process (Webrat) 2. Use

I''m trying to set up shared rails websites, so every user has its own public_html for rails scripts. I''m not really satisfied with the fastcgi approach (cgi scripts can sometimes be nasty security problems) so I''d like to try the another approach. (If someone knows a good tutorial on installing rails on FreeBSD including the fastcgi configuration that would be nice).

It seems like everyone now has a RoR type framework: Perl: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ PHP: http://cakephp.org/ Python: http://www.django.com ASP.NET: http://www.castleproject.org/index.php/Main_Page etc., etc. Has a revolution begun with the birth of these "Web 2.0" frameworks? Its going to be interesting when the tech media begins its mass hype like it did SOAP, XML, etc. a