"Lately, I’ve started digging more and more into Rails, preparing for the start of a Rails powered project. Although there are some IDEs offering decent Rails support(namely NetBeans, Komodo and Aptana Studio) I have always preferred the comfort of Emacs for various reasons. So naturally I embarked on a quest to setup a suitable environment for Rails development in Emacs.

"Steve Yegge's inspiring Emacs post has urged me to finally get my ass in gear and get some work done on maintaining the Rails on Emacs mode. The current emacs-rails mode is available from Rubyforge and I have cloned the current version of it to github at http://github.com/tomtt/emacs-rails/edit ..."

"The problem with the Ruby on Rails community isn’t simply sexism, unprofessionalism, or ghetto-ism, but that Rails is, at its core, a culture which values individual ego more than community..." -- N.B: Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs

"I have decided to fully rewrite rails-emacs because this project began as a small set of functions, expanding it is more and more and more. The code became very confused, addition of new opportunities and
correction of bugs has turned to a headache..."

"There’s a brand new version of Rails coming, as you already know. What better time for a new version of some of the Rails documentation? So the Rails Guides team is pleased to announce a refresh of the Ruby on Rails Guides site, just in time for the Rails 2.3 release..." -- -- see also: Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs

"If you haven’t looked at the state of Rails documentation lately, it’s time to look again. The new Ruby on Rails Guides page includes 14 separate guides for Rails developers, with topics ranging from “Getting Started” to routing, security, testing, and debugging.

"I started playing with RoR and of course I use Emacs for this. The following describes setting up Emacs for RoR development."

"To work with Ruby on Rails you first will need to install it. This guide will cover installing Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu..." -- Do not forget Rinari, a Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs ;)

«With the words "It’s Christmas, baby, and do we have a present for you.", David Heinemeier Hansson announced that the Merb and Rails developers were merging their efforts for Rails 3.