http://hobocentral.net/blog Hobo - the web app builder for Rails Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:36:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The interaction between ActiveRecord and the database is very simple when working with a single record - it's always pretty clear when the database is going to be changed. What about when you're working with multiple records and associations? I did some experiments way back at the start of the ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2008/04/29/activerecord-behaviour-with-associations/ Hobo 0.7.5 is a fairly small release in terms of new features, but does tidy up a few things and fixes some bugs that were causing people trouble. The bigger news is that there's a whole bunch of new documentation now available. To upgrade simply gem update hobo or grab the files from ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2008/04/18/hobo-075-released/ While chatting in the hobo IRC channel yesterday, I realised that I should probably do a blog post on the state of the documentation. We're far from done here. I don't want anyone to get the false impression that you're expected to figure out how to use Hobo from the ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2008/04/12/the-state-of-the-documentation/ This is the first post in a new category I've added to the blog: "Ruby Skills". It's a place for me to share Ruby tricks and tips I've picked up along the way. Sometimes, as with this post, I'll post about the Ruby extensions in HoboSupport. Now that HoboSupport is ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2008/04/09/ruby-skills-and-where/ And finally... Here it is. The site has been restructured with a new front page that does a much better job of communicating what we're all about. And there's much more besides... Hobo 0.7.4 is out. Please see the [changes](http://github.com/tablatom/hobo/tree/v0.7.4/hobo/CHANGES.txt). Note that rubyforge seems to be having a very bad day. ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2008/04/07/welcome-to-the-new-hobocentralnet/ So here I am at the Ruby Fools conference in Copenhagen, and I did say we were going to try and have some new stuff ready by now. We're *nearly* there. Stay tuned over the next few days. First off though, I better deflate your expectations a bit. I don't know ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2008/03/31/nearly-there/ A quick post is in order to let you know why things are so quiet around here. We're making some changes. As promised, Hobo is being broken down into smaller sub-projects such as DRYML, the migration generator, the security system etc. etc. You'll still be able to use Hobo as a ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2008/02/22/coming-soon/ Seems it's conference season :-) We are very excited to be presenting a [three hour hands-on Hobo tutorial](http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/schedule/detail/1895) at RailsConf in Portland, Oregon! http://hobocentral.net/blog/2008/01/30/hobo-at-railsconf-2008/ The kind fools at the [Ruby Fools Conference](http://jaoo.dk/ruby-cph/conference/) have invited me to give a presentation on Hobo in Copenhagen on April 2nd. This will be the third time I've stood up to talk about Hobo and both times it's been really difficult to cover such a big topic in a ... http://hobocentral.net/blog/2008/01/25/the-fools/ This release is mainly about fixes - problems recently reported in the forums with the migration generator and validation error pages have been fixed. Of course we sneaked in a bunch of new features too, and James has been busy making the Clean theme even nicer. * [CHANGELOG](/gems/CHANGES.txt) http://hobocentral.net/blog/2008/01/04/hobo-072-released/