Vancouver.rb Q&A with Sunny Hirai on Rails, Merb vs. Caffeine and Processor, Database and Storage Scaling, and More

With Caffeine, you can take any application you’ve built and, with no code changes, drop it into your new project. You could take somebody else’s forum app, for example, and use it in your project. Caffeine handles the differences between user models, database storage, file storage, templating, etc. To make it work, we had to rethink everything from routing, to the database, to the user model and in many cases the abstractions are in different places than Rails, Merb or other popular frameworks.

S6/S9 Slide Deck of the Week: Going Camping – A Web Microframework in 4k Ruby by Jeremy McAnally @ GoRuCo (Gotham Ruby Conference) - Adapted S6/S9 (Single-Web) Version (S6/9 Tip: Use T-Key to Toggle Between Outline and Slide Show View)

RedCloth Mini-Cookbook: How Tos, Recipes, F.A.Qs – Using the Ruby Plain Text to Web Markup Gem

Ruby 1.9: What to Expect (What's Changed? What's New?) by Sam Ruby @ OSCON 2008 Slide Deck Adapted S6/S9 (Single-Web Page) Version (S6/S9 Tip: Use T-Key to Toggle Between Outline and Slide Show View)

5-Minute Quick Start Guide for Facebooker - Create a Facebook Desktop Script Using Ruby in 3 Easy Steps (2nd Edition)

Rails Tip of the Day: Use Magic Version Tag to “Downgrade” Rails to Older Version When Generating New Project

Vancouver.rb Q&A with Jim Pick on Ruby and Cloud Computing, Distributed Ruby and Wikis and More

Planet Vancouver.rb now collects Ruby/Rails news, postings, discussions from in and around Vancouver, B.C. on Canada's West Coast in the Americas. Get your feed included.

Gerald Bauer published a mini tutorial on "How to read web feeds (RSS, Atom) using the standard Ruby library".

Gerald Bauer published "How to use Google's SMTP server and Gmail to send emails with Ruby". Works for Google Apps for your Domain hosted accounts too!

The Ruby Slide Show (S9) gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read now includes (experimental) support for S5 slide shows. Find some S9-generated S5 samples online: Slide Show (S9) 10-Minute Tutorial, Merb - All You Need, None You Don't, Microformats - Add Semantics to Your Web Site

Vancouver.rb - Open Ruby Hack Night #3 - Today 7pm - Whenever (9ish) @ Waves Coffee - You're invited to drop by for the weekly Vancouver Open Ruby Hack Night at Waves Coffee in downtown Vancouver in Beautiful British Columbia on Canada's West Coast in the Americas.

Gerald Bauer has published a web-ified version of "merb – The Pocket Rocket Framework" from last week's Toronto Rails Night talk by Rowan Hick using the slideshow (S9) gem. PS: A couple of weeks ago Gerald also created a web-ified version (using S9) of Ezra Zygmuntowicz' (Engine Yard) Mountain West RubyConf 2008 talk titled "Merb – All You Need, None You Don't"

I have created the slideshow (S9) Ruby gem - a free web alternative to KeyNote and PowerPoint - that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read. The latest slideshow (S9) gem update now also includes code syntax highlighting using the Ultraviolet gem.