Simon Willison’s Weblog

Ruby on Rails 2.3 Release Notes. I’m impressed with how thoroughly Rails has embraced Rack (Ruby’s standardised web framework API, inspired by Python’s WSGI).

Posted 15th March 2009 at 1:22 pm

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Useful patterns for building HTML tools - 10th December 2025
Under the hood of Canada Spends with Brendan Samek - 9th December 2025
Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025

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