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February 04, 2014
Rails developers can build iOS and OS X Apps too! New Book - RubyMotion for Rails Developers  book.motioninmotion.tv
Many of you have probably been considering getting into building iOS and OS X apps, but now I'm going to make it really easy for you. Pre-orders are now open for my new book RubyMotion for Rails Developers, and you can choose what you pay!
by FluffyJack | Post a Comment
A more robust configuration for your Rails apps  reinteractive.net
I wrote a blog post on making you Rails app configuration more robust.
by sebasporto | Post a Comment
February 03, 2014
Don't let your shell manage your env vars  theflyingdeveloper.com
I ran into a problem with my environment variables not reloading recently. Here's how I fixed things: http://theflyingdeveloper.com/dont-let-your-shell-manage-your-env-vars/
by davefp | Post a Comment
Medium's Ruby on Rails Collection
I've been seeing quite a lot of activity in the Ruby on Rails collection on Medium: https://medium.com/ruby-on-rails
by rizwanreza | Post a Comment
Burlington Ruby Conference CFP is now open  cfp.burlingtonrubyconference.com
We just opened our call for proposals for the third annual Burlington Ruby Conference. The CFP will remain open until at least March 17th. The conference is taking place August 2nd & 3rd in Burlington, VT. Visit our CFP website for details.
by beerlington | Post a Comment
Testing under different rubies with RVM.  otobrglez.opalab.com
This is simple way to test your code with different versions of Ruby.
by otobrglez | Post a Comment
Never match against Ruby's default exceptions at your tests  mauricio.github.io
While fixing a bug at rspec-mocks, the real issue was a code smell, matching against generic exceptions at your tests. So, learn why you should not do it and how to fix it if you see code like that.
by mauriciolinhares | Post a Comment
Color support in Sparkr 0.3.0 (with screenshots)  trivelop.de
I finally sat down and wrote a blog post with screenshots explaining last week's introduction of color support in Sparkr.

Sparkr is a Ruby gem that allows you to add ASCII sparklines to your Ruby program: ▁▂▃▅▇
by rrrene | Post a Comment
Hooked: Build Irresistible, Addictive Products  rubycon.rkcudjoe.com
This the summary of the book Hooked: How To Build Habit Forming Products.
by rkcudjoe | Post a Comment
Build a CRUD iOS application in under an hour with Ruby!
I've just put out a new episode of MotionInMotion, where I continue on from the last episode to show you how to do add, edit, and delete interactions in a RubyMotion application. If you haven't already, watch episode 8 first, then continue on in episode 9 about integrating ProMotion and Formotion.
by FluffyJack | Post a Comment
February 02, 2014
The value of Rails worst practices  dmcca.be
Let's take a break from "best practices" and look at some really bad code to see why Rails worst practices can be useful, too.
by dpmccabe | Post a Comment
The Instance Gem  github.com
Just wanted to let Rubyists know about a new Ruby Facets spin-off project called Instance. The instance gem is an object reflection library --a library which ensures access to an object's state. Essentially it provides all `instance_` methods, and a few others, through a single interface method. Note the `instance.rb` file will no longer be included in the next release of Facets.
by trans | Post a Comment
February 01, 2014
Investigating the State Ruby Api Developer Tooling  mayerdan.com
I wanted to improve the tooling around APIs I have been building. As part of that I dug into the current state of Ruby API tooling available.
by danmayer | Post a Comment
How do I test an application_controller on a rails app  helabs.com.br
Mauro George wrote his testing practices when working with application_controller on Ruby on Rails app. Check it out here.
by borges | Post a Comment
January 31, 2014
Culling ActiveRecord Callbacks  adequate.io
I wrote a blog post on how I've grown skeptical of using the ActiveRecord Callback events in my day-to-day work on Rails apps. Check it out here.
by patricksroberts | Post a Comment
Optimizing Web Font Rendering Performance  igvita.com
A hands-on look at how to measure web font latencies and optimize their use: transfer latencies, time of initial fetch, and interaction with the critical rendering path. Plus, an under-the-hood look at some of the upcoming optimizations in Chrome: font timeouts, faster fetches, and support for Font Load Event API.
by igrigorik | Post a Comment
RubyConf Uruguay 2014 CFP  rubyconfuruguay.org
RubyConf Uruguay 2014 is here and we have big plans but we need your awesome talks. Our CFP is open. Feel free to send a proposal.
by elcuervo | Post a Comment
The Willfully Ignorant Development Process  erniemiller.org
Wouldn't it be nice if you could write code without making concessions to reality? You can! Well, for a little while, at least. But even then, I think it's worthwhile.
by ernie | Post a Comment
Onboarding developers to your Rails app sucks
Ever struggled to get someone else's Rails app working locally? Onboarding developers to Rails apps suck (and how to make it better)
by felixclack | Post a Comment
A Home For Enterprising Developers  rubycon.rkcudjoe.com
A retrospection on launching a business/not overly technical blog aimed at developers. Read about the impressive starts after one month in this post.
by rkcudjoe | Post a Comment
The Free World Beer Book (1000+ Beers, 1000+ Breweries) Built w/ Ruby Gem (beerdb)  openbeer.github.io
Hello, The beer.db - a free open public domain beer, brewery n brewpub dataset - now includes Ruby templates and scripts that let you build a complete book. See the "The Free World Beer Book" (PDF w/ 100+ pages) live or the all-in-one HTML page version. Still a little rough but always adding more beers and working on improving the layout/design. More info at the project site. Cheers! Salud! Prost! Kampai!
by geraldbauer | Post a Comment
Write flexible menu for your rails project  pothibo.com
In almost every project, there's either a menu or breadcrumb that never really new how to build one efficiently. Sure I knew about the gems and I had an idea of an implementation. But until my latest project, I wasn't satisfied.


You can read what I've come up with on my blog: http://pothibo.com/2014/01/building-flexible-menu-in-rails/
by pothibo | Post a Comment
Practicing Ruby goes open-access, 68 articles already publicly available with more to come.  elmcitycraftworks.org
First of all and most importantly: Enjoy the articles!

If you want to learn more about why we're changing things up, check out this blog post.

And because we're still relying on reader subscriptions rather than advertising or sponsorship as our funding model, please subscribe if you like our content. It's only $8/month, and we're going to keep adding in member benefits over the coming months.
by seacreature | Post a Comment
Phusion Passenger now supports the new Ruby 2.1 Out-Of-Band GC  blog.phusion.nl
The new Ruby 2.1 out-of-band garbage collector drastically improves performance and reduces response times. Phusion Passenger already supports it 1 day after it was announced.
by FooBarWidget | Post a Comment
Lifesaver 0.2.0 has been released!  thekitchenstool.co
The next version of Lifesaver has been released, changing the callbacks to use the after_commit hook.
by paulnsorensen | Post a Comment
A Guide to the Ruby CSV Library - Part 1  sitepoint.com
A post on SitePoint describing how the CSV library in Ruby works.
by Darko | Post a Comment
January 30, 2014
Change data in migrations like a boss  railsguides.net
Update data in migrations without caution. Check out the post.
by ka8725 | Post a Comment
Testing Network Services in Ruby Is Easier Than You Think  justinweiss.com
You’ve started a new project and it’s time for your code to depend on a third-party service. It could be something like ElasticSearch, Resque, a billing provider, or just an arbitrary HTTP API. You’re a good developer, so you want this code to be well tested. But how do you test code that fires off requests to a service that’s totally out of your control?
by justinweiss | Post a Comment
Parsing date intervals from strings  rubygems.org
I needed to generate dates from a given string so I could easily create calendars for one of my sites (I didn't want to create a form to add each date individually).

It uses parslet for parsing.

Check it out!
by fnando | Post a Comment
A workaround for testing controllers in Rails 4 engines
Testing controllers in Rails engines with RSpec requires you to jump through some hoops. If memory serves, it was slightly trickier in Rails 3 than it is now in Rails 4. Fortunately the fix is pretty easy, if not obvious.
Find out how here
by Starr Horne | Post a Comment
Customizing Google Chrome - Part 1 of 3  wegowise.github.io
As a developer I often need to switch between multiple environments with the same url. This usually involves cutting and pasting a url into a new tab then changing the domain. Knowing that Google Chrome allows you to easily write extensions that can interact with web pages I decided to see if I could make my workflow a little bit easier. The goal of this minor project was to be able to change just the domain part of a url from a right click in a Chrome browser. A Custom Google Chrome Extension...
by Jeff Cutler | Post a Comment
Refactoring Rails Views with SimplestView  growingdevs.com
The Rails Way to handle views is one area that quickly grows unwieldy in larger projects. I'd like to share how I use SimplestView to clean up my views, and their corresponding controllers and helpers. Check it out!
by tpitale | Post a Comment
Reading Rails - Errors and Validators  monkeyandcrow.com
Are you a curious developer? I sure hope so.

Come along and learn a little more about how Rails' Validation Errors and Validators work as we read the Rails source code.
by netghost | Post a Comment
Omega on FLOSS Weekly  twit.tv
I invite everyone to checkout today's episode of the FLOSS Weekly podcast which featured the The Omega Universe Simulator (based on Eventmachine and the Ruby JSON-RPC library RJR).

The Universe Is The Limit!
by mmorsi | Post a Comment
Easy to search rubygems from web - HandCooler  sanemat.github.io
HandCooler, easy to search rubygems, easy to check readme, easy to compare code. This is yet another rubygems.org.
by sanemat | Post a Comment
January 29, 2014
▁▂▃▅▇ 0.3.0  trivelop.de
I just released sparkr 0.3.0.

It now let's you create colored ASCII sparklines for your Ruby CLIs: ▁▂▃▅▇
by rrrene | Post a Comment
La Conf Paris 2014 - Early bird tickets available!  2014.la-conf.org
With two action packed days including a gastronomic cruise on the river Seine, lunch in a Parisian brasserie, not to mention talks from André Arko, Ashe Dryden, Bryan Liles, Hampton Catlin, Brian Shirai, Joanne Cheng and Rachel Nabors, can you afford to miss this event?

Tickets and info at 2013.la-conf.org.
by tigrish | Post a Comment
themes_on_rails
I just released themes_on_rails. This ruby gem will add multi themes support to your Rails 3/4 application.
by Chamnap Chhorn | Post a Comment
Make Yourself An Indispensable Developer  rubycon.rkcudjoe.com
An article on everything you need to know about the business you work for to ensure you contribute meaningfully.
by rkcudjoe | Post a Comment
OS X Apps with Ruby: Part 2  blog.motioninmotion.tv
The next post in the series about developing OS X apps with RubyMotion! If you don't have a RubyMotion license, go get one, it comes with a 30 day money back guarantee anyway, then come back and read this and start your learning! OS X Apps with Ruby: Part 2
by FluffyJack | Post a Comment
cql-rb v1.2.0 released  architecturalatrocities.com
cql-rb, the Cassandra driver for Ruby, just reached v1.2.0 and now supports request and response compression, and tracing.

Read more about the release and upcoming features on the blog
by iconara | Post a Comment
git pretty-accept: Accept Pull Requests the Pretty Way!  differential.io
A few months ago, I suggested the Simple Git Branching Model and Best Way To Merge A (GitHub) Pull Request to Hendy, our CTO. We were using GitHub’s pull request feature for our code reviews, and as great as that feature was, it was turning our git history into, sorry for the pun, spag-git-ti. With the Simple Git Branching model, I was hoping for a more linear, more readable git history, with visible feature branches that can be easily reverted.

Hendy liked the idea, but felt that the workflow needed to be automated. With a script, accepting pull requests will be consistent and error-resistant.

And so, after several weeks of testing and usage, we’re happy to share git_pretty_accept.
by gsmendoza | Post a Comment
Routing Basics: Ruby on Rails for Front-End Developers  dojo4.com
Miles Matthias, author of the book Ruby on Rails Explained for Front-End Developers, talks about Routing Basics in his guest blog post on RubyLearning.
by IndianGuru | Post a Comment
January 28, 2014
Building Sinatra with Lotus  lotusrb.org
The beauty of Lotus is the composition of its frameworks. Each of them is well designed to achieve one and only one goal. The main advantage of this architecture is that delevopers can easily use and reuse those frameworks in countless ways.
Lotus::Router accepts anonymous functions as endpoints. This feature can be used to build Sinatra with it.

Read the article
by jodosha | Post a Comment
Another post how to update to Rails  bloginius.com
I just published my blog post how to update to Rails 4, where i mention strategy which i used to upgrade several Rails 3 apps. Hope it'll help someone.
by Loremaster | Post a Comment
The Supportive Technical Interview  becomingmedium.com
The latest post in my series on recruiting and interviewing. This time I tackle the technical interview and discuss how to ensure that both you and the candidate can be successful in determining fit.
by wbailey | Post a Comment
January 27, 2014
Sassy Sinatra  sassysinatra.herokuapp.com
I just created an example Sinatra app using Sass, posted it on Github and blogged about it.

wow. so sass. such sinatra.
by timmillwood | Post a Comment
A new blog engine for developers
I just launched a new blog engine powered by ruby on rails. I've been using it for the past 3 months and today, I launch it to the public.

The source is at https://github.com/pothibo/ecrire
by pothibo | Post a Comment
A Price of Zero Is More Profitable Than You Think  rubycon.rkcudjoe.com
An article on how prices affect customer behavior.
by rkcudjoe | Post a Comment
Create a basic iPhone app in 15 minutes using Ruby - RubyMotion Screencast
Sometimes you need to build something really quick, just to get an idea across. RubyMotion is fantastic for building iOS and OS X apps quickly, but with the help of gems like ProMotion, you can work twice as fast! That's why we're going to take a look at ProMotion. This will be the first in a series of episodes about the gems you have at your disposal and how you can use them all together to write beautiful code, quicker than usual.

Watch the episode now!
by FluffyJack | Post a Comment
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