@the_rails_way.awaken!

Posted by Koz Friday, January 02, 2009 03:52:00 GMT

After more than 15 months since the last post, and constant questions from users, I’m finally ready to bring The Rails Way back from hibernation.

The challenge I had here was the amount of time involved. Review articles are incredibly time consuming, scouring an application for code to improve can take hours, making the changes takes time, and all of that is dependent on getting that perfect submission.

So while I intend to continue to do review pieces here (keep those submissions coming in) I’m going to extend the format here to include a few different kinds of posts. I’ll be doing some focussed introductory pieces which cover the best practices for a few tricky areas that I see experienced rails programmers getting wrong. I’ll also be doing a few ‘soapboxy’ pieces where I can address misinformation about Rails and Ruby or just advocate a particular piece of technology or code that I think is really cool.

One of my primary goals with this relaunch will be to post regularly, but I’m not going to try and stick to a schedule that takes the fun out of it for me. Some weeks might see multiple posts, and others will see none at all. I’m just hoping that you guys will enjoy most of them.

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  1. Jordan Arentsen – January 02, 2009 @ 11:50 AM

    Excited to hear that you’re making a comeback. Keep it fun for yourself and we’ll enjoy the benefits. Keep up the good work.

  2. Nathan de Vries – January 02, 2009 @ 11:52 AM

    I’m looking forward to this, as little or as often as time allows you. Always very useful in terms of questioning (or reenforcing!) techniques I’ve developed or picked up from others :).

    Cheers!

  3. Chess – January 02, 2009 @ 02:48 PM

    You could look for samples from the refactor my code website to post about.

  4. Jean-Baptiste Escoyez – January 02, 2009 @ 03:07 PM

    Great news! I always loved the RailsWay and it helped me a lot when I started to learn Rails more than 1 year ago. Thanks for bringing back this cool blog.

  5. Harry Bailey – January 02, 2009 @ 04:02 PM

    Just yesterday I was reorganizing my feed subscriptions and I came this close to removing this one. So good timing :-)

  6. Koz – January 02, 2009 @ 11:16 PM

    Thanks guys, also sorry that my akismet misconfiguration binned all your comments! :)

  7. John Topley – January 03, 2009 @ 05:13 PM

    Yeah, great news! :-)

  8. Adrian – January 06, 2009 @ 02:38 AM

    Excellent to hear. I’ve stumbled over quite a few of your refactorings at one time or another and would always end up browsing through a few more. Looking forward to some of the best practices posts too.

  9. Markus Jais – January 10, 2009 @ 11:10 AM

    Wonderful news. Great to the The Rails Way back.

  10. How Long – January 12, 2009 @ 03:56 PM

    Hi,

    Just wondering how long will have it up and running and active this time? Before you go into hibernation again. Maybe its a good idea to announce that too…

  11. Jake Moffatt – February 12, 2009 @ 05:51 PM

    Just wanted to say thanks for bringing it back, I’ve been checking back every so often hoping to see the site alive again and now it is! :)

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