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May 25, 2013
markdown 1.1.1 - Markdown Engine Wrapper Now Includes HTTP API / Web Service  hypertext.herokuapp.com
The Markdown Engine Wrapper (markdown) gem that lets you use your markdown library of choice (e.g. kramdown, redcarpet, maruku, etc.) now includes a builtin web service/server. Try the markdown HTTP API running on heroku or start your own `markdown server`. More info. Cheers.
by geraldbauer | Post a Comment
Learn Ruby on Rails from beginners  codelearn.org
Codelearn.org launched an experiment called Learn Ruby on Rails from Beginners, the experiment got 10k hits in one day and was on the front page of HN for a long time!
by bbharadwaj | Post a Comment
Phusion Passenger 4.0.3 released  blog.phusion.nl
This release comes with important features and bug fixes.
by FooBarWidget | Post a Comment
May 24, 2013
Rails recipe: How to change objects in Rails [Flowchart]  rails-recipes.clearcove.ca
I just published a new Rails recipe about "How to change objects". The flowchart helps you decide when to use Rails Magic, and when use Object Oriented best practices like Service Objects. Comes with example scenarios and code.
by Jo Hund | Post a Comment
Paperclip, Bootstrap and SimpleForm working together on Rails  dev.mensfeld.pl
I just wrote a post about integrating Paperclip with Bootstrap and SimpleForm without the need for f.error elements. In my opinion this approach is way more cleaner that the basic one. You can check it out here: Paperclip, Bootstrap and SimpleForm working together on Rails
by mencio | Post a Comment
7 secrets every Ruby developer should know before getting into a manager or lead role  rubylearning.com
At some point of time in your career, you have to decide if you want to continue on a technical path or to take up a management role. Pramod Paranjape explains how your life would look like if you have taken up a management role.
by IndianGuru | Post a Comment
Attrio – Typed Attributes for Ruby Objects  igor-alexandrov.github.io
This yet another attempt to reinvent the wheel??? No no no!
This is how typed attributes should be done from the beginning. Attrio is simple, configurable, without ANY dependencies and works with all major versions of Ruby.

GitHub Repository
Blog Post


by alexandrov | Post a Comment
May 23, 2013
Using the Google Maps API with Ruby on Rails and Coffeescript  larsgebhardt.de
I just launched a new tutorial about Using the Google Maps API with Ruby on Rails and Coffeescript. Please take a look.
by LarsGh | Post a Comment
Spree 2.0 has been Released  spreecommerce.com
Spree 2.0 is now available. Spree is the world's most flexible e-commerce platform. It is used by over 15,000 stores worldwide and it's 100% open source. The new version includes support for multiple stock locations and shipments. The UI functionality has also been broken out into separate frontend and backend gems to make it easier to replace the views or do client-side rendering.
by schof | Post a Comment
Talk: An Intervention for ActiveRecord  erniemiller.org
Confreaks just posted my talk from RailsConf 2013, "An Intervention for ActiveRecord". Video, slides, and SpeakerRate are all right here. If you'd like to take a whirlwind tour of some things that may surprise you about ActiveRecord, please have a look!
by ernie | Post a Comment
byebug & pry-byebug - Finally debugging in ruby 2.0!
Can't use gem 'debugger' since you upgraded to Ruby 2.0? Next behaving like step? Checkout byebug or pry-byebug!
by deivid | 2 comments
Using Sprockets to Manage the Asset Pipeline in Padrino  wikimatze.de
I wrote a blog post about Using Sprockets to Manage the Asset Pipeline in Padrino. Please give me feedback!
by wikimatze | Post a Comment
AngularJS with Rails 4  coderberry.me
I recently posted a couple of articles on using AngularJS with Rails 4. Check them out at http://coderberry.me/blog/2013/04/22/angularjs-on-rails-4-part-1/
by cavneb | Post a Comment
How quickly check for access control vulnerabilities in Rails applications  happybearsoftware.com
Here's a quick blogpost on how to find basic security vulnerabilities blogpost in Rails apps.
by Najaf Ali | Post a Comment
May 22, 2013
Song Lyrics for your Ruby apps.
I just launched a gem called Lyricfy that let you fetch song lyrics from many sources from a single and clean interface. Check it out here and let me know your thoughts on this.
by javichito | Post a Comment
@import-once in LESSCSS, way handier!  blog.idyllic-software.com
Avoid duplicate imports with LESS preprocessor - Blog post
by Vinod Sobale | Post a Comment
May 21, 2013
Your tests are slow? Put them in solitary confinement  felixclack.com
An introduction to reducing your Rails test suite run time.
by felixclack | Post a Comment
Top 5 Cucumber best practices  blog.codeship.io
Once you get started with Cucumber, the question is how to write your features. How can you keep your features maintainable so you don’t have to correct them after each change in the application? How can you reuse steps most efficiently? What are typical Cucumber smells?

Following is a list of 5 best practices that can help in your daily Cucumber life.

Top 5 Cucumber best practices
by manualwise | Post a Comment
ActionWidgets: Rails helpers on steroids  benediktdeicke.com
Writing clean view code in Ruby on Rails is hard. More often than not, the separation between style and structure doesn't work out as intended. Some user interface widgets are just not easily expressed with a few HTML tags. I just published a blog post describing how you can build powerful helpers that will clean up your view code a lot.
by benedikt | Post a Comment
Taming Rails Apps with Engines  blog.socialcast.com
I just wrote a blog post, Taming Rails Apps with Engines, about using Rails Engines to break down a large Rails project.
by Lars Klevan | Post a Comment
Testing Against Multiple Rails Versions  schneems.com
Find out how to test your libraries against multiple versions of Rails so your gems will be ready when Rails 4 comes out.
by schneems | Post a Comment
Webhooks, upload notifications and background image processing  cloudinary.com
This blog post details how you can use Cloudinary to perform asynchronous background image processing in the cloud and receive web notifications when uploading and image manipulation are completed. Sample code in Ruby is included.
by Cloudinary | Post a Comment
May 20, 2013
Introducing Searchlight, the lightweight search gem  rubygems.org
Searchlight is a lightweight gem for building searches in your app. Searchlight follows the same philosophy as Authority: low-magic, very little DSL. Mostly you'll write plain Ruby methods for your logic; Searchlight just helps you tie it together.

Searchlight integrates nicely with ActiveRecord and Rails forms, but can be used in any Ruby program. Check it out on Github or Rubygems.
by NathanLong | Post a Comment
Rails authentication using has_secure_password  millwoodonline.co.uk
There are many options when it comes to building authentication into you rails app. A popular option is to use devise, but for more simple projects, Rails inbuilt has_secure_password feature is a valid option. I blogged about it.
by Tim Millwood | Post a Comment
May 19, 2013
equatable Ruby Objects Comparison
A small nifty gem equatable to help value objects express their equality.
by pmurach | Post a Comment
github_api new release
I just released github_api with support for media types, statistics api and more.
by pmurach | Post a Comment
May 18, 2013
Building a Tested, Documented and Versioned JSON API Using Rails 4  emilsoman.com
Building a Tested, Documented and Versioned JSON API Using Rails 4
by Emil Soman | Post a Comment
Precompiling assets on rails 4 temporary fix  bpinto.github.io
Blog post
by bpinto | Post a Comment
Infinitely large objects in memcached with large_object_store
If you have objects bigger then 1MB try large_object_store!
by grosser | Post a Comment
May 17, 2013
Y U RUBBY2 NO GO FASTER?  js.hu
Why ruby 2.0.0 runs slower than 1.9.3? (hint: because I have asked it to be slower). In fact, it's nearly as fast as 1.9.3 with falcon-gc.
by julian7 | Post a Comment
Released chef-handler-librato 1.1.6 gem
I just pushed chef-handler-librato 1.1.6 update with some minor bug fixes.
by betahost | Post a Comment
Futuroscope: Future Ruby objects in your hands... Today!  blog.codegram.com
We've just written a blog post about Futuroscope, a new Ruby gem that makes working with parallelism a piece of cake.
by codegram | Post a Comment
Add macros in your Cucumber scenarios  rubygems.org
The gem macros4cuke allows you to define macro-steps directly in your Cucumber scenarios without fiddling step definitions. Data arguments can be passed from the macro-steps to their sub-steps. Macro-steps can invoke other macro-steps, sub-steps can be made conditional... More details and examples can be found here.
by famished.tiger | Post a Comment
May 16, 2013
Bower, an assets package manager  synbioz.com
Discover Bower and how to integrate it in your rails app.
by Synbioz | Post a Comment
Upload and Parse a XML File with Ruby on Rails, Paperclip and Nokogiri  larsgebhardt.de
I just released a new tutorial Upload and Parse a XML File with Ruby on Rails, Paperclip and Nokogiri. Please take a look.
by LarsGh | Post a Comment
Chef.bscott.me  chef.bscott.me
I just launched Chef Daily Newspaper , Content will start showing up shortly.
by betahost | Post a Comment
May 15, 2013
Ruby Daily goes mobile  stream.rubydaily.org
Yesterday I’ve rolled out a couple of features for my ruby and web development news project - Ruby Daily. Hope you find them cool and useful.
Feel free to submit new articles or subscribe to newsfeed.
by kugaevsky | Post a Comment
Alternative authentication process for your rails application using Omniauth and Devise  goo.gl
This blog will take you through the process of setting up alternative authentication system for your application using service providers like FB, Twitter.
by Ketan Deshmukh | Post a Comment
May 14, 2013
Keeping Multiple Development Machines Synchronized with Homeboy  prestonlee.com
Most of us developer types have at least two machines we use routinely, and managing that can be a chore. Homeboy is a set of small, plain BASH scripts to synchronize core config files, update system packages, upgrade development libraries, and pull git clones every morning in one shot by running `homeboy'. [release overview] [github]

I just launched some groovy thing and yada yada.
by preston | Post a Comment
Test your web apps with Selenium  blog.codeship.io
In this screencast we look at the two Selenium tools Selenium IDE and Selenium WebDriver. Selenium is a remote control for your browser. Selenium lets you perform browser actions by creating scripts instead of using your mouse or keyboard. Let's have a look!

Test your web apps with Selenium
by manualwise | Post a Comment
Heroku Postgres Row Limit Email Notifications  cheynewallace.com
If you have a Rails side project hosted with Heroku and you're using the basic or dev database with the fixed row counts, you might want to consider reading this post I wrote about monitoring the total row counts and receiving email notifications when you get close that to nasty 10,000 or 10 mil mark.

Heroku Postgres Row Limit Email Notifications
by Cheyne | Post a Comment
Multipass Rendering With Mustache  erniemiller.org
Ever wished you could do multipass rendering with Mustache? Ever wonder why you might want to? Ever wondered how the heck Mustache works? Do I have the blog post for you!
by ernie | Post a Comment
Rails Security Simplified  hakiriup.com
I just launched Hakiri—a web app that gives you peace of mind about your web projects' security. Just select versions of technologies that you use in your projects and Hakiri will notify you via email when new vulnerabilities are discovered so you can update quickly.

Hakiri currently supports a limited set of technologies like Ruby/Rails, Postgres, Java, etc. I plan to add more soon.
by vasinov | Post a Comment
Safe stubbing with Bogus
I've just written how to increase confidence of isolated specs with Bogus.
by Pawel Pierzchala | Post a Comment
Monitoring Background Jobs in Ruby’s Resque  appneta.com
Let's look at how to get visibility into an important component of any complex system: the messaging queue. Specifically, let’s look at how to trace a job from Rails using Resque. Read more here.
by trjordan | Post a Comment
May 13, 2013
User Registration From Scratch Using Form Objects in Rails  panthersoftware.com
A different take on User Registration; one that keeps user registration out of the User class, the controller and implements it using a Form Object.
by mcnazar | Post a Comment
ArrrrCamp pull-request competition
Us pirates don't like paying for things which is why we love Open Source software. But that doesn't mean we don't want to give back! With that in mind we'd like to give away 2 tickets for the next edition of ArrrrCamp in October. All you need to do is submit as many pull requests for open source projects as you want.
by joren | Post a Comment
Datamappify: Entity with multiple data sources and now with lazy loading!
Compose and manage domain logic and data persistence separately and intelligently, Datamappify is loosely based on the Repository Pattern and Entity Aggregation.

Datamappify is built using Virtus and existing ORMs (ActiveRecord and Sequel, etc). The design goal is to utilise the powerfulness of existing ORMs as well as to separate domain logic (model behaviour) from data persistence.

Attributes lazy loading has just been implemented, check it out: https://github.com/fredwu/datamappify
by fredwu | Post a Comment
Isn't Cloudinary great?  millwoodonline.co.uk
Since discovering Cloudinary I have have been finding handling images less of a chore. It takes out so much of the effort when dynamically resizing and cropping images. I put together a tutorial on how to use it. Uploading many images to Cloudinary with Carrierwave
by Tim Millwood | Post a Comment
Yandex::Webmaster gem and some bonus  igor-alexandrov.github.io
I just released Yandex::Webmaster. It is an API wrapper for Yandex.Webmaster tools. Now you can easily integrate information from Yandex into your Ruby application.

Read about it in my blog: http://igor-alexandrov.github.io/blog/2013/05/13/yandex-webmaster-gem-and-something-more/ and don't forget to find bonus at the of the post that will be interesting for developers from all over the world (not only those who use Yandex.Webmaster)
by alexandrov | Post a Comment
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