Manchester, United Kingdom – (Website Hosting Directory) – January 15, 2008 – Content management focused web hosting provider, 34SP.com, has released its Ruby on Rails 2.0 hosting solution, based on the company’s VPS hosting platform.

Daniel Foster, Technical Director of 34SP.com noted, ”Ruby on Rails doesn’t work well in a shared hosting environment, so to take full advantage of its benefits you’ll need your own server. A full dedicated server can be prohibitively expensive, so the 34SP.com VPS hosting solution provides the ideal stepping stone. The 34SP.com Rails VPS is already configured to run Rails applications with with an Apache frontend, so you’re free to get coding right away. As the resources on your 34SP.com VPS aren’t shared with other users, you can guarantee that the performance of your application won’t suffer from other applications using all your memory and CPU time. If the server is under-utilised you can also burst above your own memory and processor limits. The basic plan allows a generous allocation of RAM and all our VPS servers use quad Xeon technology to ensure your site always responds quickly.”

Ruby on Rails is the current hot programming language and web application framework. Rails speeds up the creation of complicated database-driven web applications and keeps the tedious bottom layer code hidden from view, leaving you to get on with creating the application itself.

The base VPS hosting plan is competitively priced and fully geared for Rails support out of the box. Additionally 34SP.com offers a range of add-on services to ensure a smooth experience. From the popular Plesk control panel software to expert hands-on support.

Founded in 2000, 34SP.com was established with the aim of bridging the gap between sophisticated hosting solutions and affordable prices. 34SP.com has become synonymous with content management focused web hosting, wordpress hosting, reliability and outstanding technical support. The company is headquartered in central Manchester, England.

For more information on 34SP.com VPS hosting, please visit: www.34sp.com/vps

Online Training Leader lynda.com Announces Release of Ruby on Rails Beyond the Basics

Over 11 hours of tutorials on building applications with Ruby on Rails.

Ventura, California (PRWEB) November 13, 2007 — lynda.com, the leader in self-paced digital media and design training, today introduced Ruby on Rails Beyond the Basics.

In this sequel to the popular Ruby on Rails Essential Training, expert instructor Kevin Skoglund teaches comprehensive techniques for web developers who already feel comfortable with the fundamentals of Ruby and the Rails MVC framework. This training will help developers move toward creating full-featured Ruby on Rails applications. Kevin begins by explaining how to update software and projects to the latest versions. He then demonstrates alternative ways to interact with Ruby and your Rails applications and teaches the intermediate aspects of the Ruby language. Kevin provides step-by-step instructions for creating a custom blog and content management application. He uses this practical example to show how to work with database migrations, how to get more from ActiveRecord and avoid common pitfalls, how to create flexible controllers and views, and how to improve performance, security, and code management. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.

“This is the perfect resource for anyone developing a real website in Ruby on Rails,” says Lynda Weinman, CEO of lynda.com. “It covers not only in-depth programming concepts, but also the ‘care and feeding’ tips you’ll need to efficiently maintain your Ruby on Rails development and production environments.”

Anyone with an internet connection can access Ruby on Rails Beyond the Basics by subscribing to lynda.com’s Online Training Library®. A separate CD-ROM version of Ruby on Rails Beyond the Basics is planned later this month.

Subscriptions to the lynda.com Online Training Library® start at $25 a month, and provide access to over 22,000 movie tutorials covering more than 320 technology career tools, software applications, and techniques. Subscribers can access any of the computer-based training courses at their convenience. Multi-user subscriptions are also available for companies and institutions seeking to provide education and training to groups.

For free online samples of Ruby on Rails Beyond the Basics and more detailed product information, please visit http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=395.

To arrange to view the full training title, please contact email protected from spam bots.

For more information on lynda.com products, please visit http://www.lynda.com or call 1-888-335-9632.

About lynda.com
Since 1997, lynda.com has provided education and technical training solutions for designers, computer graphics specialists, digital media users, and computer owners. lynda.com products include web-based training, instructional books, CD- and DVD-based video training, self-paced online learning, and events for creative designers, instructors, students, and hobbyists. lynda.com specializes in teaching fundamental design and graphics principles along with the latest computer software, digital media technologies, and techniques.

About Kevin Skoglund
Kevin Skoglund is the owner of Pixel & Press (http://www.pixelandpress.com) , a web development company specializing in application development using Ruby on Rails, PHP, SQL, HTML, and CSS. Pixel & Press web clients include lynda.com, Flashforward, An Event Apart, Google, The American Institute of Architects (AIA) New York, and Aidan Bradley Photography. Kevin began creating websites in 2001. He has been using PHP and MySQL to develop web applications since 2003, and started using Ruby on Rails in 2005. He also maintains a blog for web developers at http://www.nullislove.com.

Seattle, Washington – (Website Hosting Directory) – December 7, 2006 – Web hosting firm, VPSLink, has added the Ruby on Rails application development platform to its virtual private server hosting services.

The OS template consists of Fedora Core 5, Ruby on Rails (RoR), MySQL, and Lighttpd with FastCGI. Ruby on Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server, which VPSLink takes care of for you. Lighttpd with FastCGI, MySQL, and Fedora Core 5 are the highest performance applications to power Ruby on Rails.

VPSLink’s Ruby on Rails hosting service is accompanied by VPSLink’s custom VPS hosting control panel, which allows you real-time status reports on your server, as well as being able to reboot or reinstall the entire OS easily.

VPSLink’s Ruby on Rails hosting service provides daily backups, seamless upgrade paths, regular version updates, guaranteed resource allowances, and all of the other features you would expect from a quality virtual private server hosting provider. All of the VPSLink hosting plans have been custom fitted for Ruby on Rails, providing the perfect hosting environment for Ruby on Rails web sites and applications.

Cameron Jones, President of VPSLink remarked, ”Many web hosts are currently offering Ruby on Rails hosting solutions; however we are providing it in a finely tuned VPS environment which has all the recommended applications to co-exist with Ruby on Rails, and give it all the support it requires. There is finally a dependable hosting solution for Ruby on Rails developers and users.”

VPSLink provides budget Virtual Private Server (VPS) web hosting solutions from its datacenter in Seattle, Washington. VPS technologies was developed to allow users to be isolated inside individiual virtual environments, providing all of the administrative access previously only available on a traditional dedicated server. VPSLink is focused on cutting edge open source technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Spry Hosting.

To learn more, please visit: www.vpslink.com.

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