I’ve now taken over another bit of code that disappeared from Vlad 2.0.0, namely the Merb support. I expect this plugin will no longer be needed once Rails 3 appears, but until then, all of you deploying Merb apps with Vlad (without Passenger) can have the vlad:start_app and vlad:stop_app tasks back.

Description:

Merb support for Vlad. Prior to 2 ( Read more... )

At work, I have several web apps that our staff need admin access to, all of which use the same LDAP database. This allows them to change their password in one place for all our systems.

It also means that I have to integrate LDAP authentication into every web app I write. So yesterday, I spent the afternoon making merb-auth talk to our LDAP ( Read more... )

Third in the lists series.

Here are the tech things I’m looking forward to in 2009 (most related to Web development):

• Watching Merb and Rails merge
• Adoption of Python 3, even though Python still irks me
• DataMapper 1.0
• A Web framework that’s more of a library, less of a harness to plug things into†
• Hearing more from Arc