Posted by Rajesh Shetty
on July 01, 2007
We are glad to announce Ajuby release 0.5 today. It is very exciting get this release out after long and late hours of work, with tons of fixes and UI consistency across browsers (IE/Firefox/Safari).
This is a milestone release for Ajuby team in terms making integration platform availability (for building Web services/SOAP/XML exchange) , sample applications demonstrating possibility of mashups (SugarCRM and Basecamp conglomerate).
Here is the release information in detail
You can also check out the Ajuby blog for up to date information
To get your hands on this release
It just keeps getting better as wide adoption Rails based application increases, Ajuby slides itself in a right spot to make developers and user community to build integrations to popular business applications like Salesforce, SugarCRM , productivity tools like basecamp and storage solution like Amazon S3 rapidly.
Posted by Rajesh Shetty
on June 20, 2007
I was just wondering how come IBM did not start building tools around web 2.0 productivity yet. There you go, now they are. IBM providing tools for mashup building and collaboration. How should all these online Web 2.0 companies who do the same thing and their bread and butter is dependent on that.
It should be interesting to see how IBM’s push for this piece works out. Only thing that is making me worry is that they are bringing Lotus name back in the limelight. I hated Lotus applications, including their email client, lamest email client I have ever seen including the user interface. Their Lotus domino server did not go anywhere. Not sure their intention of pushing Lotus name with Web2.0 wares they are coming up with.
One interesting thing that these big players will do is to bring enterprise applications together with slick Web 2.0 applications, which will drive towards Enterprise 2.0.
Posted by Rajesh Shetty
on March 07, 2007
As 37Signals is pushing for Highrise , its so called “CRM” initiative, I’m sure everyone must be thinking about, is it really a true CRM or just another personal data/contact/task management application combined with few CRM features. As per their blog
Highrise was built to satisfy common scenarios like:
- See all follow-ups scheduled for this week
- Review Susan’s notes before calling her contact at the printer
- Set a reminder to write Steve a thank-you note next Friday
- Review all conversations I’ve had with Chris from Apple
- Organize interview responses for potential candidates online
- See a list of all the designers your company has hired in the past
- Enter notes from a call with a potential client
- See all the people your company knows at The New York Times
- Schedule a follow-up sales call with Jim in 3 months
- Review all the people tagged “Leads 2006”
So they have proposed features like Leads, conversations, contacts which will fall into mini-CRM domain.
It also sounds like they are taking best of basecamp, campfire, backpack, Ta-Da List and collaborating them in a mini-CRM suite fashion. It would be interesting how this thing gets the wing, and by looking at their track record, I would not be surprised people getting hooked to it. Most of their applications are crisp ,intuitive and great usability. Bottom line gets your and your partner’s/customer’s job done. Last but not least the first popular “CRM” initiative for Ruby On Rails platform.
Posted by Rajesh Shetty
on February 10, 2007
We are running into quite a few issues with latest Rails version 1.2 starting with Theme generator complaining about “named_route” , following is the exception that we get
=> Booting WEBrick…
./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/theme_support/lib/patches/routeset_ex.rb:26:in `create_theme_routes’: undefined method `named_route’ for #<actioncontroller::routing::routeset:0xb7d34690> (NoMethodError)
from script/../config/../vendor/plugins/theme_support/lib/patches/routeset_ex.rb:13:in `draw’
Reason is Theme generator is using its own routes extension for its custom routes and as per Rails 1.2 release , Routes section).
So meanwhile we figure out how to fix this or Theme generator comes with fix for Rails 1.2, Following is the fix that you can do
# Lets freeze the Rails for Ajuby release by running following command
> rake rails:freeze:edge TAG=rel_1-1-6
This will take rails 1.1.6 and make rails available within Ajuby framework, (We will eventually go this route. Every release will be bundled with Rails , so one less thing to worry with)
# After above step successfully complete, start the WEBrick and see if you run into any error , if yes possibly you would not have Activerecord core frozen properly. Not sure whether its a bug in the rake process. If you see this error like undefined method “deprecate” or #<Class:……
Copy activerecord/lib directory from your installed Rails (wherever you have installed rails version 1.1.6 before above freeze process) to <ajubyhome>/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib directory
Posted by Rajesh Shetty
on February 09, 2007
We are happy to announce latest release of Ajuby (0.4) out for general access/download on source forge/Google code.
We are gearing up for next release, with interesting features like Module builder. Updates will be on the Ajuby wiki for coming release