As a company offering products for Ruby on Rails developers, we sometimes have to work through customer issues that are specific to certain Rails releases or Rails Edge commits. Among our daily work tasks, frictionless switching between different Rails versions is important. Below, I’ll quickly outline our internal approach to his. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but I have noticed many developers using the tedious and time consuming gem uninstall rails;gem install rails -v old_version;gem uninstall rails;gem ...

Welcome to this week’s Rails TakeFive interview, our weekly discussion about Ruby on Rails with noted developers from throughout our community. This week, we’re honored to be joined by Ryan Bates, the producer of Railscasts, the free Ruby on Rails screencast series. FiveRuns: Welcome Ryan, and thanks for taking the time to join us! We’ve asked several folks recently about Rails 2.1. With over 1,400 contributors, clearly a community effort. What about the new release ...

FiveRuns developer Eric Falcao gave a talk on Client Side Performance Measurement and Optimization with Rails at this week’s Austin on Rails meeting. In the talk, Eric discussed his new Clientperf project and some tricks for client-side Rails application performance optimization in the typical Rails/Mongrel/nginx stack. You can find the slides here. Enjoy!

FiveRuns Manage 2.0, the latest version of our Ruby on Rails application monitoring product, is now ready for public beta consumption. We’ve been working on a number of enhancements to the product, and would welcome your feedback! To signup and take FiveRuns Manage for a spin, just visit manage.fiveruns.com/signup. Since our initial launch of FiveRuns Manage almost a year ago, we’ve been working with customers, partners and other members of the Ruby on Rails community ...