After having used Apache Builder for a week and extracted our Warbler-code into a bonafide extension, I’m sharing it with the community under the fetching name Barbler. Barbler integrates itself between the build and packaging stages of the Apache Builder lifecycle and makes calls into Warbler to automate WAR-file creation. Now Warbler does a really good job for packaging standalone Rails apps. Unfortunately I needed something more integrated into our application build process, that pulls in our Spring Framework-based Java code, Scala code, and Rails application and produces a single WAR-file...

I’ve been playing around with and kicking the tyres of CouchDB for a couple of weeks and I’m truly excited about the project. If I was to use tags to describe CouchDB I’d use the following: apache, opensource, documents, metadata, database, json, javascript, REST, addressability, horizontal scaling, erlang. So I found myself at Railscamp UK on the weekend without a ruby+rails topic to really talk about during the presentations part of the camp. I’m still a noob wrt. Rails, you see. Realising that CouchDB is relevant to most web developers because most developers deal with...