Followup to RESTful thinking considered harmful shopify.com
Because many people didn't get the point I was trying to make in my RESTful considered harmful post (due to my own fault), I wrote a followup post for clarification.
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RESTful thinking considered harmful shopify.com
I wrote an article discussing how prioritizing RESTful design principles over designing for the process your app is supporting, can lead to bugs and security issues.
After more than a year of development, I released version 1.0 of ChunkyPNG, the pure Ruby library for handling PNG images, and OilyPNG, the C module that will speed it up.
The new ChunkyPNG release comes packed with new features: image resizing, polygon and circle drawing methods, more efficient image operations like rotate and flip, a simplified API and better documentation, etc.; see the changelog for all the changes. OilyPNG now comes with a C implementation of image composition, which significantly speeds up the generation of sprite images.
As always, use
The new ChunkyPNG release comes packed with new features: image resizing, polygon and circle drawing methods, more efficient image operations like rotate and flip, a simplified API and better documentation, etc.; see the changelog for all the changes. OilyPNG now comes with a C implementation of image composition, which significantly speeds up the generation of sprite images.
As always, use
gem install {chunky,oily}_png to install. Feedback is welcome!I have just released version 1.0.0.beta1 of ChunkyPNG, the pure Ruby PNG library and OilyPNG, a C module that speeds up ChunkyPNG. It now includes full support for the PNG spec, for both encoding and decoding.
Because it will be a dependency of Rails 3.1, I would like to do a stable release soon. Install the gems using
Because it will be a dependency of Rails 3.1, I would like to do a stable release soon. Install the gems using
gem install {chunky,oily}_png --pre to help me test!ChunkyPNG 0.10 and OilyPNG release. github.com
I just released ChunkyPNG 0.10, my pure Ruby PNG library. The new version includes some big performance and memory improvements. I also released OilyPNG, a C module that instantly speeds up PNG decoding in ChunkyPNG even more.
ChunkyPNG is planned to be included in Rails 3.1 for sprite image generation, so I would appreciate any feedback to improve the library before that time.
ChunkyPNG is planned to be included in Rails 3.1 for sprite image generation, so I would appreciate any feedback to improve the library before that time.
ScopedSearch 2.2 now Rails 3 compatible github.com
I just released version 2.2 of my super simple ActiveRecord search plugin ScopedSearch. It uses standard SQL to search records using a simple but powerful query language (think
"foo !(bar | baz)"), and it is now compatible with both ActiveRecord 2 and 3.Practical Rack middleware examples in Rails techblog.floorplanner.com
For anybody who heard all the fuzz about Rack middleware in Rails, but is still mystified about how it can be applied in practice, I wrote down two examples of how I have used Rack middleware recently to solve actual problems :-)
ChunkyPNG, a pure Ruby PNG library github.com
I just released ChunkyPNG, a pure Ruby library for reading and writing PNG images. It may help you get rid of RMagick (it did for me). I blogged about my struggles to make the library memory efficient and have decent performance, which may be of interest to any Ruby developer trying to write efficient code.
Request-log-analyzer 1.5.0 released techblog.floorplanner.com
I just released request-log-analyzer version 1.5.0, now with support for MySQL slow query logs to see what queries are slowing down your database. To install or upgrade:
gem install request-log-analyzerSearch your ActiveRecord models using a simple query language techblog.floorplanner.com
I recently released version 2.0 of scoped search. Scoped search allows you to search your ActiveRecord-based models using a simple query language in a named scope. It uses standard SQL to perform queries, and no additional indexing software is required.