<p>Welcome to this new installment of Rails Magazine! While not the most technical nor the largest, we believe this still is one of the best ones so far.<br />Thanks to all authors and editors who made this issue possible! Carlo Pecchia recently joined the editorial team, we are thankful to have him on board. If you like the magazine, we invite you to consider contributing an article or joining as an editor.<br />While there are a variety of techniques for PDF generation, automation with OpenOffice is a novel approach discovered by Rodrigo Rosas, which works well for fairly complex layouts or when supporting non-technical users. We'll cover additional techniques for PDF generation in the next issues.<br />Background processing becomes more important for Rails developers, and James Harrison presents a solution using delayed_job. Our next issue will present an alternative technique.<br />Saurabh Bhatia introduces the Radiant CMS, a first article in a mini-series on Radiant programming.<br />We asked DHH, Yehuda and Thomas Enebo to share their thoughts on Rails 3 and beyond.&nbsp; DHH goes a step further and hints at what to expect beyond it.<br />Finally, special thanks to Muhammad Ali and Ehab El-Badry for their coverage of Ruby Kaigi 2009. I hope you will enjoy reading their interviews with Matz and Koichi as much as I did.</p> 2009-08-30T03:26:09Z http://railsmagazine.com/forums/2/topics/66 37 4 1 2009-12-24T20:49:11Z