Looking for exception notifications for Merb application? Grab it at github.
May 12, 2008
Merb bootloaders explained at Merb wiki. Highly recommended to Merb plugin author wannabees.
Learn what configuration options in Merb cannot be specified in init file and why.
Rails 2.1 RC1: Semi-official announcement by DHH via Twitter here.
after_create :pimp - how to automatically ping Google when you post a new content to your Rails web site.
Thanks to Dr. Nic and Enginge Yard, there's now a TextMate bundle for Merb.
May 11, 2008
So you want to know what is the state of Merb on road to 1.0 scheduled May 29th...
May 10, 2008
Platypope has a good screencast demonstrating using Ruby in the emacs editor.
New Rails plugin that provides declarative transaction management - dectxn - Rails Declarative Transactions Plugin.
A friend of mine and I put together a portuguese version of the RubyFlow. The site is called Rubyonda, which translates to rubywave.
An article covering the use of the newly released Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) with Capistrano
Rails shines more as Heroku gets $3 Million Fund for developing its Hosting Scenario and Other Tools for Rails Support. More Information is available on TechCrunch.
May 09, 2008
This article describes how to make a poor mans CDN with Nginx, Varnish, Merb and S3. Managing a large file system can be a pain while serving huge amounts of assets can quickly become expensive. A poor mans CDN is a cheap alternative to a ZFS disk array matched with a CDN.
Accessible Field Errors in Tight Spaces
RubyKaigi 2008 (Japan's Ruby conference) has been announced. Tickets are available to buy on Saturday, May 10.
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MSpec and RubySpec become submodules of Rubinius now and it matters for your day to day development if you use RSpec.
May 08, 2008
The first DevFi podcast is up, about building vs. buying vs. forking, and includes an interview with Dan Berger who recently forked the Ruby interpreter, creating the Sapphire language.
Merb core now has a visualized graph of how the framework core boots. It probably will help a lot to wrap your head around Merb core internals.
A look at what happens when you disable the session in your Rails application controller and want to enable it elsewhere. Also, what happens when you disable sessions, but forget to disable forgery protection? Rails Gotcha #9.
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How to read a GPS receiver with Ruby.
Reposting... El Dorado version 0.9.2 (Group Chat Edition) has been released. This version of the "Rails app for small groups" adds a very simple real-time group chat to compliment the forum and file sharing features.
An interesting set of instructions on what to do if using gems.github.com as a Gem source breaks your RubyGems. The short version: Remove gems.github.com as a source, update your RubyGems install, then add it back.
How to write your Rails views entirely in JavaScript. Interesting idea, but I'm not sure of the benefit of this yet..
May 07, 2008
Ubuntu 8.04 Ruby on Rails Server Guide. Part 1 of the guide is online. Part two will be online next week. Get your servers ready! SysAdmins Chronicles - Ubuntu 8.04 Server Guide
Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) - Part 3 of n
CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you’ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
Mack 0.5.0 was released yesterday with the much debated ORM support changes.
With merely 10 minutes to fix this morning's spam issue before I have to go out (now!) there were a whole range of balls ups and mistakes made, and so.. we're now back on Sunday's database. Sorry!
In any case, changes have been made to avoid the spam issue in future. All users need to now be approved (once they've done a post and proven they're not spammers) before their items appear in the RSS and Twitter feeds, reducing their motivation.
Note: All existing users have been marked as approved.
In any case, changes have been made to avoid the spam issue in future. All users need to now be approved (once they've done a post and proven they're not spammers) before their items appear in the RSS and Twitter feeds, reducing their motivation.
Note: All existing users have been marked as approved.
May 03, 2008
The unstoppable Dr Nic has put together a JavaScript GitHub badge widget that allows you to show off which projects you're working on at GitHub.
An interesting introduction to TextMate's Ruby bundle. A good place to start if you use TextMate but haven't used any of the mnemonics and snippets the Ruby bundle provides (like me).
tm_syntax_highlighting is a new Rails plugin that allows you to do TextMate-style syntax coloring in your app (GitHub repository).
May 02, 2008
Yehey! Capistrano 2.3.0 is released. It has many new tasty features!
I posted a summary of some of the nice new features coming in Rails 2.1. In short, many of the rough spots are being patched over!
Have posted a Rails TakeFive interview with Xavier Noria
The Ruby Hoedown for 2008 is going down in Huntsville, Alabama on August 8 and 9. Keynote speakers so far are David Black and Chris Wanstrath. Engine Yard and Ruby Central are sponsoring.
Everyone is looking for programmers, but how about an entire team! A team of London based Rails / Web 2.0 developers for hire.
An open letter from India to Mr. David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails.
Mark Bates, author of Mack framework, decided to support only DataMapper and remove native support of ActiveRecord in his project. He described the reason why he choiced DataMapper instead of ActiveRecord.
alonetone is the first non-commercial Rails-powered web app providing musicians with unlimited space to upload and share their tunes. The software behind it is open source (GitHub repository).
A multi-part tutorial on writing a compiler in Ruby.
May 01, 2008