0 <a href="http://tagaholic.me/2010/03/11/hirb-and-tables-for-all.html">This post explains</a> that the latest <a href="http://tagaholic.me/hirb">hirb</a> works with couch, mongo, riak or any databases supported by sequel or datamapper. Hirb has essentially turned irb into a database-agnostic database shell. 2010-03-11T18:26:09+00:00 false 3573 2010-03-11T19:50:11+00:00 663 0 There's a <a href="http://teachmetocode.com/screencasts/gem-bundler">new screencast about Gem Bundler</a> on <a href="http://teachmetocode.com/">teachmetocode.com</a>. Check it out! 2010-03-11T17:00:08+00:00 false 3572 2010-03-11T17:00:08+00:00 1258 0 The guys at <a href="http://plataformatec.com/">PlataformaTec</a> just released a new tool called <a href="http://github.com/plataformatec/show_for">show_for</a> that helps you to DRY your code and markup whenever showing your objects (aka in your "show" views). Check out the <a href="http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2010/03/show-your-objects-baby">blog post here</a>. 2010-03-10T21:09:31+00:00 false 3571 2010-03-10T21:09:31+00:00 665 2 The new <a href="http://github.com/grosser/bitfields">'bitfields' Rails plugin and gem</a> allows simple bitfield managements for ActiveRecord and others, produces fast(indexable) sql for query and bit-setting. 2010-03-10T20:19:25+00:00 false 3570 2010-03-10T20:19:25+00:00 845 0 The APN (Apple Push Notifications) on Rails plugin has moved to a new <a href="http://www.metabates.com/2010/03/10/apn-on-rails-has-a-new-home/">home</a>. 2010-03-10T15:48:05+00:00 false 3569 2010-03-10T21:26:35+00:00 185 3 Very simple sinatra app for testing your <a href='http://rejex.heroku.com'>regular expressions</a>. 2010-03-09T23:27:15+00:00 false 3568 2010-03-09T23:27:15+00:00 984 3 <A href="http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/making-ruby-fast-the-rubinius-jit/">New post by Evan Phoenix</a>! 2010-03-09T23:25:21+00:00 false 3567 2010-03-09T23:25:21+00:00 590 3 Lots of people love using named scopes in Rails 2. However, in Rails 3 they're not only more or less obsolete but can also hinder productiveness in teams by being update blockers. <a href="http://www.railway.at/2010/03/09/named-scopes-are-dead/">Read about the reasons and alternatives</a> in the <a href="http://www.railway.at">railway blog</a>. 2010-03-09T21:24:07+00:00 false 3566 2010-03-09T21:24:37+00:00 154 0 A <a href="http://railsfreak.com/post/436865973/be-pragmatic-with-your-time">pragmatic approach</a> discussing how to easily fit in a team and keep code flowing every day. 2010-03-09T14:11:31+00:00 false 3565 2010-03-09T14:11:31+00:00 1102 0 In my previous post on boolean search, we wrote an efficient list (array) intersection function. But, to be honest, I wasn’t very happy with it. Considering the fact that we were using Ruby, it just wasn’t very Ruby-like. So, this time I am going to try and <a href="http://www.skorks.com/2010/03/writing-a-more-ruby-ish-array-intersection-function-and-sorting-structs/">show how that function can be re-written to make it more Ruby-ish</a> and to also be tighter and easier to understand. 2010-03-09T09:48:26+00:00 false 3564 2010-03-09T09:48:26+00:00 924 10 <a href="http://github.com/elliotcm/light_mongo">LightMongo</a> is a lightweight <a href="http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS">Mongo</a> object persistence layer for Ruby which makes use of Mongo's features rather than trying to emulate ActiveRecord. It's an interesting alternative to the already popular and somewhat awesome <a href="http://github.com/jnunemaker/mongomapper">MongoMapper.</a> 2010-03-09T02:59:17+00:00 false 3563 2010-03-09T02:59:17+00:00 5 0 <a href="http://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests">Parallel tests</a> now suppots any kind of test-suite(Test/RSpec/Cucumber), speeds up e.g. action_pack test-suite by 200%. Finally a good excuse for buying Dual/Quad-Core. <a href="http://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests">Speedup those tests, go parallel!</a> 2010-03-07T12:34:12+00:00 false 3562 2010-03-07T12:34:12+00:00 845 0 Some time ago I released <a href="http://github.com/rock-n-code/sinatra-pages">sinatra-pages</a>, a very practical <a href="http://sinatrarb.com">Sinatra</a> extension. Now I've used it in order to create a <a href="http://izcheznali.net/">website for social activism</a> and I'd like to show you how I did it. Please <a href="http://github.com/mr-rock/izcheznali">check it out</a>! 2010-03-07T11:46:24+00:00 false 3561 2010-03-07T11:46:24+00:00 1060 0 I just upgraded <a href="http://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet">bullet</a> gem to version 2.0 beta, which supports rails3 beta. Bullet gem helps you to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading. 2010-03-07T09:23:22+00:00 false 3560 2010-03-07T09:23:22+00:00 973 rubiii 0 <a href="http://github.com/rubiii/ambience" rel="nofollow" >Ambience</a> version 0.2.0 now works for every Ruby-app and returns a Hashie::Mash. 2010-03-06T12:43:52+00:00 false 3559 2010-03-06T12:43:52+00:00 0 <a href="http://update.gemcutter.org/2010/03/05/february-changelog.html">A recap of what happened on your community RubyGem host last month including plenty of stats and information about latest features and fixes.</a> 2010-03-06T04:03:36+00:00 true 3558 2010-03-06T06:35:52+00:00 433 2 For Inspectinator (a sinatra microapp), I needed a database-less authentication solution that was as lightweight as possible, but with a reasonable amount of security and maintainability. I came up with something that suits this purpose well, and I'm sharing it in case anyone is looking for something similar. I call it EasyAuth. <a href="http://techspeak.plainlystated.com/2010/03/drop-dead-simple-authentication-for.html">Here ya go</a> 2010-03-05T17:42:53+00:00 false 3557 2010-03-05T20:15:52+00:00 441 2 I just launched <a href="http://github.com/flyerhzm/seo_checker">seo_checker</a>, which checks your website if it is seo. It mainly checks the url, title and descripion of web page according to the sitemap. 2010-03-05T15:20:06+00:00 false 3556 2010-03-05T15:20:06+00:00 973 Ian Cowley 0 A round up of some of the best <a href="http://www.setfiremedia.com/blog/50-of-the-best-websites-developed-using-ruby-on-rails" rel="nofollow" >sites created with Ruby on Rails</a>. 2010-03-05T09:30:45+00:00 true 3555 2010-03-06T06:35:48+00:00 0 A new generation Ruby/GSL wrapper that strives for code simplicity while retaining acceptable performance. Other GSL wrappers are either utterly complicated (lots of C code) or poorly documented. Ruby/GSL-ng uses Ruby/FFI and little bits of C code to achieve a simple implementation that integrates neatly with Ruby's standard classes and follows most of its conventions. Source is located on GitHub and gems are periodically released to Gemcutter. Check <a href="http://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-gsl-ng" rel="nofollow" >gem details</a> for links, etc. 2010-03-05T00:00:40+00:00 false 3554 2010-03-05T00:00:40+00:00 1259 0 <a href="http://outoftime.github.com/2010/03/03/sunspot-1-0.html">Sunspot 1.0</a> ships with Solr 1.4 and supports several of its new features, including multiselect faceting and trie range queries. It also comes with built-in support for multithreaded environments, Solr replication, and Solr sharding. 2010-03-04T20:01:42+00:00 false 3553 2010-03-04T20:01:42+00:00 567 wowzer 5 A new version of <a href="http://rubygems.org/gems/dicks" rel="nofollow" >Boliver T. Shagnasty's dicks gem</a> was released today. For those who don't know, dicks is a "Brutish way to print out a bunch of ascii dongs". Critical stuff here. 2010-03-04T19:19:33+00:00 false 3552 2010-03-05T02:42:39+00:00 4 Seeing as it is my birthday, I'll go ahead and make a second release today. This one is for <a href="http://proutils.github.com/qed/">QED</a> a test framework using literate programming techniques. QED make test-driven functional testing as easy eating pudding pie. This new release utilizes Tilt to convert documents to HTML which are then processed by the test runner, allowing QED to support many new markup formats. And, yes, we eat our own <s>dog food</s> pie. <a href="http://proutils.github.com/qed/qedoc/index.html">Check it out</a>. 2010-03-04T18:23:50+00:00 false 3551 2010-03-05T06:40:31+00:00 516 0 Just pushed a new version of <a href="http://rubyworks.github.com/stash/">Stash</a>, a Hash with indifferent key access. All Stash keys are stored as strings so they can be garbage collected. Stash is also useful if you need a custom Hash-a-like object with special key restraints. Just override the #convert_key method in your subclass. 2010-03-04T15:14:18+00:00 false 3550 2010-03-04T15:14:18+00:00 516 0 In <a href="http://railscoach.com/episode-11-testing-your-application/">this episode</a> of the <a href="http://railscoach.com/">Rails Coach Podcast</a>, we discuss why your application needs tests, why developers and QA both have responsibility for testing, and what you should be testing. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=346089573">Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast.</a> 2010-03-04T14:26:32+00:00 false 3549 2010-03-09T02:59:33+00:00 1258 0 Baseball Statz is a Rails app hosted on Heroku that uses the Ruby powered <a href="http://github.com/timothyf/gameday_api" rel="nofollow" >Gameday API</a> which provides live MLB stats. View all the stats for today's games <a href="http://baseballstatz.heroku.com/scoreboard?year=2010&month=3&date=3" rel="nofollow" >here.</a> 2010-03-04T03:36:10+00:00 false 3548 2010-03-04T03:36:10+00:00 1257 0 In <a href="http://railscoach.com/episode-10-understanding-and-growing-business/" rel="nofollow" >this episode</a> I discuss the value that developers gain and add by understanding business and how their employer or client makes their money. 2010-03-03T20:31:48+00:00 false 3547 2010-03-03T20:31:48+00:00 1258 0 Here's why and how we use <a href="http://lunarlogicpolska.com/blog/2010/02/15/mysql-and-mongodb-working-together-in-kanbanery">MySQL and MongoDB in one of our applications</a> thanks to the awesomeness of <a href="http://datamapper.org">DataMapper</a> 2010-03-03T15:56:17+00:00 false 3546 2010-03-03T15:56:17+00:00 992 0 The <a href="http://www.rubymidwest.com">Ruby Midwest Conference</a> has opened its <a href="http://www.rubymidwest.com/#call-for-speakers">Call for Speakers</a>. Come share your excitement, experience, and expertise with fellow Rubyists in the Midwest! We're pleased to announce that <strong>Yehuda Katz</strong> is scheduled to keynote this two day, single track conference held in Kansas City, MO on July 16-17, 2010. Sign up for email announcements on the <a href="http://www.rubymidwest.com">website</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/RubyMidwest">follow us on Twitter</a> to keep up with our latest news. 2010-03-03T03:26:23+00:00 false 3545 2010-03-03T04:58:11+00:00 255 0 We have a rails app in development that will send a lot of email so I wanted to setup a way to test that it was being delivered. In my integration tests I trigger <a href="http://lucidcode.co.nz/blog/archives/2010/03/02/testing-email-delivery-in-rails-with-gmail-httparty/">an action that delivers email and then check my Gmail inbox</a> for the email in question. 2010-03-03T01:32:18+00:00 false 3544 2010-03-03T01:59:37+00:00 1146 0 I just launched <a href="http://terrbear.org/?p=253">Peeping Tom</a>, a ruby gem that helps monitor your webapps. 2010-03-02T23:31:53+00:00 false 3543 2010-03-02T23:31:53+00:00 555 sshingler 1 <a href="http://mongohq.com/">MongoHQ</a> have launched - with pricing options! The results, as MongoMapper author John Nunemaker tweeted, were surprising. <a href="http://www.devmull.net/articles/thoughts-on-mongohq-pricing" rel="nofollow" >Here are my thoughts on MongoHQ.</a> 2010-03-02T13:56:46+00:00 false 3542 2010-03-03T01:58:34+00:00 1 <a href="http://avdi.org/devblog/2010/03/01/ruby-standard-org/">Announcing ruby-standard.org</a> in hopes of fostering discussion of the Ruby ISO standardization effort. 2010-03-02T06:24:08+00:00 false 3541 2010-03-02T06:24:08+00:00 531 0 <a href="http://github.com/jcoglan/faye">Faye</a> is a simple-to-use publish/subscribe messaging library that implements the Bayeux protocol for Ruby and Node.js. The <a href="http://blog.jcoglan.com/2010/03/01/faye-gets-server-side-clients/">latest release</a> adds support for server-side clients, so now your backend application can send messages out to client browsers. 2010-03-01T23:25:20+00:00 false 3540 2010-03-01T23:25:20+00:00 824 9 Where to start and how to learn <a href="http://dalibornasevic.com/posts/11-vim-for-rails-development">Vim for Rails Development</a> by referencing some books/screencasts. 2010-03-01T21:43:23+00:00 false 3539 2010-03-01T21:43:23+00:00 895 Timothy Fisher 0 EngineY is an open source project that provides a complete social networking framework that can be run stand alone as a social network similar to a Ning social network, or it can be integrated with an existing website to provide just the social capabilities. It is a project that I have been developing over the past year or so. In this post, I want to talk about another way you can use EngineY, not as an application or framework that you would integrate into your code, but as a server that can provide all of the social features for your existing web applications... <a href="http://blog.timothyfisher.com/?p=173" rel="nofollow" >(READ MORE)</a> 2010-03-01T21:10:45+00:00 false 3538 2010-03-01T21:10:45+00:00 3 There is no reason why we can't have a schema-free MySQL engine to compete with the NoSQL solutions. A look at what "schema-free" and "document-oriented" actually means, and the <a href="http://www.igvita.com/2010/03/01/schema-free-mysql-vs-nosql/">ruby code to make it work</a>. 2010-03-01T18:57:28+00:00 false 3537 2010-03-01T18:57:28+00:00 9 0 I am quite sure that if you are a ruby developer you have heard that Rails 3 beta is now out. Here is a quick run through on installing it. <a href="http://bit.ly/aFnMZK" rel="nofollow" >Read Full Article</a> 2010-03-01T18:15:17+00:00 false 3536 2010-03-01T20:17:18+00:00 1249 0 An example app of <a href="http://nextsprocket.com/tasks/gettext-on-rails-3-0-0-beta" rel="nofollow" >gettext on rails 3.0</a>. Got another ruby/rails gem you need to get upgraded to 3.0? post it on Next Sprocket! 2010-03-01T17:42:36+00:00 false 3535 2010-03-01T18:03:56+00:00 1256 0 If you're a Shoulda user (a begginer or intermediate), you might be interested in <a href="http://szeryf.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/custom-shoulda-macros-a-tutorial/">a tutorial on writing custom Shoulda macros</a>, i.e. how easy it is to create your own version of <code>should_have_many</code> etc. 2010-03-01T14:39:34+00:00 false 3534 2010-03-01T14:39:34+00:00 289 joshnesbitt 0 Configr aims to provide a clean interface for configuring and reading a set of configuration values. The idea evolved from using a standard hash as a configuration store into a more elegant way to declare and read values from within a hash. <a href="http://blog.josh-nesbitt.net/2010/03/01/introducing-configr-an-elegant-configuration-interface-in-ruby/" rel="nofollow" >Check out the blog post</a>. 2010-03-01T14:34:50+00:00 false 3533 2010-03-01T14:34:50+00:00 0 Slugs are bad kids. I know rails 2.3 is obsolete now that 3.0 is on the cards ;-) but slugs_are_bad is a plugin that allows you to create slug-less url's for your rails app without having to make too many changes to your code. I created a quick blog post to explain the plugin <a href="http://steve.dynedge.co.uk/2010/02/28/slug-less-pretty-permalink-based-urls-in-rails/" rel="nofollow" >here</a>. 2010-02-28T15:16:07+00:00 false 3532 2010-02-28T15:16:07+00:00 1154 0 For anyone tired of managing translations in YAML files, Rails 3's I18n ActiveRecord backend is <a href="http://www.dev-fr.com/archives/2010/02/27/rails-3-let-activerecord-manage-your-translations/" rel="nofollow" >easy to setup and use</a>. 2010-02-28T09:15:02+00:00 false 3531 2010-02-28T09:15:02+00:00 1254 Alex Speller 0 One thing about java that's pretty useful is it's regulated interfaces. This is a simple <a href="http://github.com/alexspeller/implements" rel="nofollow" >proof-of-concept</a> of that pattern implemented in Ruby. 2010-02-27T22:55:51+00:00 false 3530 2010-02-27T22:55:51+00:00 blahed 0 <a href="http://github.com/blahed/frank" rel="nofollow" >Frank</a> lets you build static sites super fast. It uses <a href="http://github.com/rtomayko/tilt" rel="nofollow" >Tilt</a>, so it comes with support for Haml &amp; Sass, LESS, Builder, ERB, Liquid, Mustache, &amp; CoffeeScript. <a href="http://github.com/blahed/frank" rel="nofollow" >Frank</a> also has a helpers for lorem text and generating placeholder images. 2010-02-27T17:23:05+00:00 false 3529 2010-02-27T20:50:46+00:00 0 I just sleepily wrote <a href="http://terrbear.org/?p=249">mongrations</a>, a Rails plugin that gives you migrations for MongoMapper. 2010-02-27T05:19:01+00:00 false 3528 2010-02-27T05:19:01+00:00 555 0 Geoffrey Grosenbach <a href="http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/about-this-blog" rel="nofollow" >describes</a> how he built a blog that supports per-post styles using Sinatra, Haml, and more. 2010-02-27T04:32:45+00:00 false 3527 2010-02-27T04:32:45+00:00 1113 0 If you got gems lying around that still use bundler 0.8, <a href="http://blog.wynst.web.id/2010/02/26/steps-to-replace-bundler-0-8-with-bundler08.html" rel="nofollow" >try this</a> without rebuilding/reinstalling the lying gems. 2010-02-26T16:36:46+00:00 false 3526 2010-02-27T15:39:20+00:00 1252 0 A post by Yehuda Katz about <a href="http://yehudakatz.com/2010/02/25/rubys-implementation-does-not-define-its-semantics/">Ruby’s Implementation Does Not Define its Semantics</a>. I particularly liked hearing about the regex stuff as I have always found it to be awkward. 2010-02-26T15:29:36+00:00 false 3525 2010-02-26T15:29:36+00:00 875 0 Ruby on Rails projects usually use MySQL or PostgreSQL for their database, but in the corporate world, Oracle is king. As much as you might like to have a Postgres backend, the powers-that-be have decreed and you must obey. Don't worry though, all is not lost, you don't have to slink back to Java, here is how you can <a href="http://www.skorks.com/2010/02/using-ruby-on-rails-with-oracle-and-deploying-it-all-to-tomcat/">get your Rails app working with an Oracle database and deploy it all to Tomcat as a Java webapp</a> if that wasn't enough. 2010-02-26T10:29:09+00:00 true 3524 2010-03-06T06:35:29+00:00 924