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February 23, 2010
February 08, 2010
Nearly a week ago, Matt Aimonetti wrote an example on using MacRuby and NSUndoManager to implement undo functionality. This is a byproduct: an Undoable module.
February 02, 2010
Matt just announced he's giving up his life as a free agent to join Sony PlayStation. Is he going to wear a tie, code in Java, spend hours in meetings? Does this mean that Ruby is now mainstream? Read more to find the answers to these existential questions and hear about the reasons behind his decision.
Matt Aimonetti just posted a simple MacRuby tutorial showing how to use Cocoa's built-in classes to implement undo/redo and use the functionality in a simple Ruby script.
January 22, 2010
Check out the latest post in Yehuda's series on the Merge progress, a year later.
January 19, 2010
I'm sure that like everyone else, your main concern in life is to detect cylons around you. Good new fellas, Matt Aimonetti wrote a blog post that will help you do that using MacRuby. Well, not really, but kinda... At least, you will learn from his blog post that the work on MacRuby 0.6 started and an early version of a debugger is now available to play with.
January 18, 2010
Matt Aimonetti posted a tutorial explaining how to control iTunes using MacRuby. If you've always wanted a better way to create playlist or rename, tag, edit your music, you might be interested in reading this article.
January 06, 2010
Yehuda Katz wrote a great article on merging rails and merb which includes great examples and some benchmarks.
January 03, 2010
R18n now has full compatibility with Rails I18n and add to Ruby on Rails: filters, i18n support for models, time formatters, nice syntax and out-of-box pluralizations and autodetect user locale. Also R18n has Sinatra, Merb and desktop plugins.
December 30, 2009
Matt Aimonetti just posted a short blog post showing how to detect the language of a string with MacRuby in less than 10 LOC.
"Happy new year!".language # => "en"
November 25, 2009
I am happy to announce the first public release of my new framework Rango. Rango is a small MVC framework inspired by Merb and Django builded on top of Rack. It's clean, simple and it's trying to be as agnostic as possible. It has Bundler support and mainly, it's the only Ruby framework with template inheritance!
Check the Rango 0.1 announcement or take a look at Rango Wiki!
Check the Rango 0.1 announcement or take a look at Rango Wiki!
November 18, 2009
Just posted a getting started tutorial if you're interested in using DataMapper on JRuby.
November 16, 2009
After all the comments left on my My Ruby Revolution is over post, I decided to post a follow up.
November 15, 2009
racksh aka Rack::Shell is a console for Rack based ruby web applications. It's like Rails' script/console or Merb's merb -i, but for any app built on Rack. You can use it to load application environment for Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Camping, Ramaze or your own framework provided there is config.ru file in app's root directory.
November 13, 2009
ShardTheLove is a library for scaling ActiveRecord databases in Rails and Merb. ShardTheLove is built with support for migrations, testing/RSpec, a flexibility of partitioning patterns, a simple syntax, support for Rails & Merb, and a great name :-). ShardTheLove sample usage and github project page.
November 09, 2009
November 05, 2009
Merb is still under active development. There are great improvements in the latest gem release. Besides, the official development repository has moved to http://github.com/merb/merb.
October 14, 2009
Sometimes it is necessary for me to visualize my Models and Controllers to match them against some hand drawn wireframes to see the progress and gaps. Although it's handy to have everything visualized to see whats going on under the hood of legacy applications and more important models/schemas. I found a wounderful gem which provides this functionality using graphviz called RailRoad.
There are also some alternative versions you should check out:
ddollar - railroad - Thanks, Bruno Michel
royw - railroad_xing - Support for Merb & DataMapper
There are also some alternative versions you should check out:
ddollar - railroad - Thanks, Bruno Michel
royw - railroad_xing - Support for Merb & DataMapper
October 08, 2009
The MacRuby team just released MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 with a lot of improvement and features. After downloading the beta, go play with one of the first MacRuby specific gems and imagine what kind of new projects you will soon be able tow ork on.
October 07, 2009
Learn how to do easily do Cocoa stuff with MacRuby. Matt Aimonetti just started posting a series of MacRuby tips, the first two ones: embedding a custom font and Playing an audio file.
October 06, 2009
Matt Aimonetti covers the latest modifications on MacRuby trunk just before the first Beta/RC of 0.5 gets released.
July 28, 2009
In his latest post, Matt Aimonetti covers the simple steps to create a Rack middleware and how to log CouchDB queries or any thing happening in your application. Using Couch, you can log directly to a remote database and process/display them there. Even if you don't care about Couch, it's a great middleware example and shows some interesting Ruby tricks.
July 14, 2009
Merb-ssl-requirement makes switching back and forth from https to http a snap for Merb apps.
July 03, 2009
Getting your API right. Most of this is super easy in Merb/Rails :D
May 28, 2009
In his latest blog post Matt Aimonetti explains why MacRuby is an important project for the Ruby community as a whole.
He also explains few things about MacRuby (potential Linux version, iPhone compilation available with the next version, AOT compilation, performance boost etc..)
He also explains few things about MacRuby (potential Linux version, iPhone compilation available with the next version, AOT compilation, performance boost etc..)
April 29, 2009
I Am Not a Pr0n Star- Avoiding Unavoidable Associations. Liz Keogh responds to Matt's apology at The Merbist. Taking the angle of the psychology of subconscious associations, this article will hopefully help those still struggling to understand the on-going pr0n0gate controversy.
April 23, 2009
If you're having config.gem woes and like Merb's answer to gem dependencies, check out the dependencies plugin over at Github.
April 08, 2009
Form Element Objects in Merb, an attempt to make merb a litte more like Cocoa.
April 03, 2009
If you're a Ruby web developer and you haven't learned Rack yet ... now's the time! Rails 2.3 has spectacular Rack support, as do: Merb, Sinatra, Ramaze, Mack, Camping, and more. I've released a few screencasts for learning Rack that some people have found useful ... sooooo, I figured I'd share with the rest of the community, incase someone else finds these useful!
- Rack Basics: the very basics of what Rack is, why you should care, howto write apps, etc
- More Rack: rackup files, using Rack middleware, creating slightly more complicated Rack apps
- Rack Middleware: what is it, how to write it, how to use it in Rack/Rails/Sinatra apps, etc
- Rack Basics: the very basics of what Rack is, why you should care, howto write apps, etc
- More Rack: rackup files, using Rack middleware, creating slightly more complicated Rack apps
- Rack Middleware: what is it, how to write it, how to use it in Rack/Rails/Sinatra apps, etc
March 11, 2009
Screenshot. Looks like Merb users were a mite more familiar with Rails than Rails users were with Merb ;)
March 02, 2009
February 19, 2009
The Merb Internals Handbook has a homepage. The book is written by Michael S. Klishin, and web interface work by Dylan Clendenin(a.k.a deepthawtz)
February 14, 2009
merbi.st is now powered by Ruby-1.9.1! Recent effort of the fellows of Asakusa.rb has fructified.
February 11, 2009
methopara is a gem that provides Method#parameters only for Ruby-1.9.1
February 09, 2009
DHH posted about this a couple weeks ago and I'm bringing the subject back with two subtle differences: I'm aiming on Rails 2.2 (not Rails 3) and I will actually show you the code! Check it out here.
January 14, 2009
For a limited time, RubyLearning is offering its Introduction to Merb eBook for free. Hurry.
January 09, 2009
Someone I know is writing a feature on the Rails / Merb merger for the 2nd issue of The Rubyist (Ruby magazine). He/she will be interviewing several people but also wants to get a general community feel for the opinions surrounding the merge. So, say anything you want here on RubyFlow, get it all off your chest (extreme, intelligent, thoughtful, or otherwise) and you could be quoted and get your name in a shiny magazine article! (If you don't want to be quoted, make sure you make that clear in your comment..)
January 02, 2009
The Merbist posted a survey of testing frameworks. Which framework do you use?
December 28, 2008
http://skein.tumblr.com/post/66709064/its-about-the-ecology-stupid - The Rails/Merb merge isn't necessarily a bad idea. But rails-core needs to actually have a conversation about why people (a number of merbists) were so pissed off at the rails community that they left. And that can't happen until someone acknowledges that there was a legitimate problem.
December 26, 2008
Foy Savas covers the Rails-Merb merge and what to make of it.
December 24, 2008
December 23, 2008
What is the fate of alternative framworks in the world of Rarb (Rails + Merb)?
This is a historic moment in the ruby community. Read all about it: The day Merb joined Rails, Ruby on Rails blog, Yehuda Katz's post, Carl Lerche's post, The Merbist, Ezra's post
Is April 1st late this year? DHH announces that Merb is being merged into Rails 3! Wowsers!
December 21, 2008
I have released merb_editorkicker plugin 0.2.0. This is a Merb plug-in which enables you to invoke your favorite editor such as Emacs, Aptana, NetBeans and so on instead of TextMate when you click line number link on Merb error page. I believe this helps Merb developers who are using editors other than TextMate. See README.txt for details.
December 18, 2008
Matt Aimonetti (a Merb core team member) talks to RubyLearning on all aspects of Merb in this interesting interview - Why on earth would you ignore Merb?
December 17, 2008
Wycats says it's about helping Ruby win and growing the ecosystem. Encourages everyone to stay positive.
People's main gripe has been that the dependencies and the bundling solution that was available with Merb 1.0 has been quite painful. Fixing all this has been the focus of this past week, and with the Merb 1.0.5 release comes a new solution. Watch the screencast demonstrating all those new features.
Rather unusually, a video of David Heinemeier Hansson commenting on Merb's recent PR joust with Rails has cropped up on Vimeo. In it he appears to be fed up with the "amount of bullshit" coming from the Merb group. Whether this video was uploaded by David himself or not is uncertain (I believe he doesn't like the initialism "DHH" so it seems odd for that to be his username).