Ryan Smith presents to the Kansas City Ruby Users Group on Heroku: why it is wonderful for deploying Ruby on Rails applications, how to set up a new application and deploy it to Heroku in minutes, and how to use Heroku add-ons to support search.
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March 12, 2010
March 10, 2010
The new 'bitfields' Rails plugin and gem allows simple bitfield managements for ActiveRecord and others, produces fast(indexable) sql for query and bit-setting.
The APN (Apple Push Notifications) on Rails plugin has moved to a new home.
March 09, 2010
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. Read about the reasons and alternatives in the railway blog.
A pragmatic approach discussing how to easily fit in a team and keep code flowing every day.
March 07, 2010
I just upgraded bullet gem to version 2.0 beta, which supports rails3 beta. Bullet gem helps you to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading.
March 05, 2010
A round up of some of the best sites created with Ruby on Rails.
March 04, 2010
Sunspot 1.0 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.
In this episode of the Rails Coach Podcast, we discuss why your application needs tests, why developers and QA both have responsibility for testing, and what you should be testing. Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast.
Baseball Statz is a Rails app hosted on Heroku that uses the Ruby powered Gameday API which provides live MLB stats. View all the stats for today's games here.
March 03, 2010
In this episode I discuss the value that developers gain and add by understanding business and how their employer or client makes their money.
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 an action that delivers email and then check my Gmail inbox for the email in question.
March 01, 2010
Where to start and how to learn Vim for Rails Development by referencing some books/screencasts.
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.
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An example app of gettext on rails 3.0. Got another ruby/rails gem you need to get upgraded to 3.0? post it on Next Sprocket!
February 28, 2010
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 here.
For anyone tired of managing translations in YAML files, Rails 3's I18n ActiveRecord backend is easy to setup and use.
February 27, 2010
I just sleepily wrote mongrations, a Rails plugin that gives you migrations for MongoMapper.
February 26, 2010
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 get your Rails app working with an Oracle database and deploy it all to Tomcat as a Java webapp if that wasn't enough.
February 24, 2010
Here are some tips for setting up a Rails 3.0 Beta environment using RVM and Ruby 1.9.2
February 23, 2010
Here is an interesting blog post to show how to speed up your Rails XML responses by adding some tenderlove to your code.
Handling title tags in rails has always been difficult and not very DRY. Until now. title_tag is a new plugin that attempts to make this very easy, and easy to modify! Read The Full Article
February 21, 2010
In this report on Rails hosting, I recommend some of the best Rails hosting services for all budgets.
A new blog post announcing a new release of the netzke-core gem/plugin: embedding Netzke (ExtJS+Rails) widgets (such as full featured Grid/FormPanel, BorderLayoutPanel, AccordionPanel, etc) into a Rails view is easier than ever.
February 20, 2010
I just posted a blog From TextMate to VIM for Rails Coders. The mouse is NOT needed anymore for Rails coding. -- Check out whether you agree it or not. Or Just imagine bring out your iPad + Wireless Keyboard and go on hacking Rails code quickly with SSH + VIM… Cool enough?
February 19, 2010
I recently installed the awesome Ruby Version Manager, mainly to run Rails 2 and Rails 3 on the same system but also to try out Ruby 1.9. Here are some rvm gotchas I ran into along the way.
February 18, 2010
I've just updated mongo_session_store with Mongoid support. I also wrote a blog post to learn how to use mongo_session_store with MongoMapper and Mongoid.
We've just posted the first stop on our tour of the changes in Rails 3's generators. Take a look to see what's new with the migration, model, controller, and resource generators (and stay tuned for more stops on the tour!)
Update: The people who made this post (I'm assuming RailsTeam.com/Rails Team are spammers. I'm leaving this post up here so we can collect info/anecdotes about them in the comments. Their links here are nofollowed, thankfully.
Although Ruby on rails has many advantages for developers in terms of ease of developing applications [snip] most Web 2.0 programming languages are facing this challenge. The lack of sufficient HTML pages where the search engine really focuses is the main reason why the web application cannot be searched by different search engines.
Although Ruby on rails has many advantages for developers in terms of ease of developing applications [snip] most Web 2.0 programming languages are facing this challenge. The lack of sufficient HTML pages where the search engine really focuses is the main reason why the web application cannot be searched by different search engines.
Users never have to wait for cached pages to be generated (unlike the page caching that ships with Rails). Inspired by Pivotal Labs' Rails, Slashdotted: no problem I've created this Page Cache plugin to give Rails holeless/seamless page caching. The README and source is on github and here's the blog post explaining how I use it.
When I try to find a guide about how to write rails generator, I can’t find a good one. So I decide wrote The missing guide of rails 2 generator part 1. Though Rails 3 will come, but I think people will keep using rails 2 for a long period.
Rail 3.0 is now in beta. I don't know about you, but I've already written my first Rails 3 application. Allow me to share with you the tale of deploying it with moonshine
February 17, 2010
Early Bird Tickets are available for RubyNation, a two-day, dual-track Ruby and Rails conference presented by the Washington, DC Ruby Community April 9-10 at the Sheraton Hotel in Reston, Virginia. RubyNation 2010 features a keynote presentation by Dave Thomas and lots of other wonderful speakers, including Gregg Pollack, Nick Sieger, Joe O'Brien, Russ Olsen, Jim Weirich, and many more.
Seer is a lightweight, semantically rich Ruby on Rails gem that provides a seamless interface to the Google Visualization API. You can easily create a graph or chart in a variety of formats and display it in your app with only a single line of code. The gem is available now through Gemcutter. A full intro can be found on my blog: Simple, Semantic Graphing for Ruby on Rails with Seer.
I wrote a introductory blog post on how to use Cramp with Rails3 to build Real-Time Web Apps .. Read the post
February 16, 2010
The Frozen Rails conference is set to be Finland’s first and finest Rails conference. The conference has a high-profile line-up, and we have managed to get three core developers (Yehuda Katz, Carl Lerche, and Pratik Naik), Chris Wanstrath, and other stars to give talks at the conference.
José Valim from PlataformaTec just released a screencast about RailsMetrics. RailsMetrics is a Rails 3 engine which listens to ActiveSupport::Notifications and store them in the database, so you can know what is happening in your application at each request and create some charts and statistics. In this screencast, José Valim shows how to install it, takes a quick look at the source code and tell you how you can make RailsMetrics even better.
I've recently been working on a feature that required UNION's, locking, and much more.
Trails is built using the Twilio Ruby Library to make it easier to integrate the Twilio API into a Rails application.
February 15, 2010
The netzke-demo project has been updated with a live demo of Netzke::Window. Netzke is as framework that greatly facilitates creation of reusable ExtJS/Rails components.
I was trying to fetch some RSS feeds with Ruby the other day. I just needed something quick to validate a couple of things I was trying out with Rails. However it seems that the Ruby ecosystem has this natural hatred for corporate proxies, it’s come to bite me time and time again. But I wasn't giving up without a fight, so lets see what we can do about our proxy problems and fetch some feeds.
Inspectinator -- an online parser for ruby/rails #inspect strings. Still playing around with the parsing a bit, but should be mostly working. More details/feedback
February 14, 2010
If you want/need to have both, Rails 3 and Rails 2.3, installed in parallel on your system you might want to read the latest blog post over on the railway.at blog to find out how you can avoid running into dependency hell by using Ruby Version Manager (rvm).
February 13, 2010
Here's a little talk I gave at SD Ruby about provisioning a bare server and deploying your Rails app with Moonshine in about 10 minutes. Video: http://jarinheit.com/a-talk-i-gave-at-sd-ruby-deploying-rails-apps ... Slides: http://slideshare.net/jarinudom/deploying-rails-applications-with-moonshine ... SD Ruby: http://sdruby.com
February 12, 2010
The day has finally arrived where you can run a browser-less javascript + DOM environment from within Ruby. Harmony offers a convenient DSL that allows you to get started simply and easily. There is even a Rails plugin (holygrail) for functional tests. You can now leverage the power of the command line to do with JS what once required a browser.
Devise (a full authentication stack for Rails) reaches 1.0 after four months since its first release! Carlos describes in this post all features that were added along the way: authentication, HTTP Basic authentication, token authentication, registration, analytics, timeout, account locking, account confirmation, forgot password and many others, thanks to Devise modular architecture which allows you to pick just what you want.
Zhao Lu (aka @zlu) has shared a tutorial he has done using Ruby on Rails and the recently released Tropo Web API. The tutorial shows how to add, or build, the Tropo features to your Rails application in 15 minutes using REST/JSON API. All of this deployed to Heroku for easy application deployment. Then he goes on to show how to use Tunnlr with Rails to punch through firewalls without port forwarding...
Lessons learned from building HomeMarks native iPhone application to synchronize Core Data with a RESTful backend built using rails 3.0.0.pre. This covers a previous design methodology called the AJAX head pattern which decouples rails applications from the views they present which allowed an easy API foundation for the iPhone application and data sync methods.