0 RubyLearning has just announced the third batch of the <a href="http://rubylearning.com/blog/2010/02/09/ruby-metaprogramming-course-start-thinking-in-ruby/">Ruby Metaprogramming Course</a> from 6th March 2010. Early Bird Discounts offered. You will find author of "Metaprogramming Ruby" book Paolo Perrotta, lurking in the course forum! 2010-02-09T07:37:12+00:00 false 3427 2010-02-09T07:37:12+00:00 10 0 Paginating documents from CouchDB with couchrest & will_paginate explain <a href="http://www.opensourcery.co.za/2010/02/08/paginating-documents-with-couchrest-and-will_paginate/">in this blog post</a>, and it is not as difficult as you might imagine. 2010-02-08T20:38:33+00:00 false 3426 2010-02-08T20:38:33+00:00 213 0 I recently popped off a quick <a href="http://proutils.github.com/2010/02/dci-architecture/index.html">blog post</a> about an awesome lecture on the concept of DCI architecture that I've been watching. This looks very promising and I'm guessing other Rubyists will be interested too. Check out <a href="http://proutils.github.com/2010/02/dci-architecture/index.html">my comments</a> and jump from there to the video. 2010-02-08T18:18:30+00:00 false 3425 2010-02-08T18:18:30+00:00 516 0 I just launched <a href="http://gemcutter.org/gems/lazygem">LazyGem 0.0.2</a>, this update features OS detection. Please provide any feedback possible. Thanks. 2010-02-08T17:49:41+00:00 false 3424 2010-02-09T09:56:52+00:00 965 0 With Thinking Sphinx, it’s easy to have a bunch of different classes returned in the results. The tougher part is displaying them in a way that is organized. Here is a quick <a href="http://eric.lubow.org/2010/ruby/rails/model-specific-formatted-search-results-using-thinking-sphinx/" rel="nofollow" >tutorial</a> on how to display your results in a model specific fashion. 2010-02-08T16:53:35+00:00 false 3423 2010-02-08T16:53:35+00:00 1217 0 Here's why I think we should only support Ruby 1.9 with the Rails 3.0 release. <a href="http://www.metabates.com/2010/02/08/ruby-1-9-rails-3-0/">http://www.metabates.com/2010/02/08/ruby-1-9-rails-3-0/</a> 2010-02-08T15:18:13+00:00 false 3422 2010-02-08T15:18:13+00:00 185 0 I just wrote a small <a href="http://humanzz.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!82322F9506CB0449!1744.entry?&_c02_vws=1">tutorial</a> on how to install mysql gem when using RubyInstaller. 2010-02-08T08:25:38+00:00 false 3421 2010-02-08T08:25:38+00:00 333 0 Nearly a week ago, Matt Aimonetti <a href='http://merbist.com/2010/02/02/undoredo-in-macruby/'>wrote</a> an example on using MacRuby and NSUndoManager to implement undo functionality. This is a byproduct: an <a href='http://copypastel.com/rofl/Doing_the_Undoable'>Undoable module</a>. 2010-02-08T08:02:43+00:00 false 3420 2010-02-08T08:02:43+00:00 1190 0 I just posted <a href="http://adventuresincoding.com/2010/02/riding-ruby-on-rails-3-bundler/" rel="nofollow" >Riding Ruby on Rails 3: Bundler</a> which shows how to manage your gems with Rails 3. 2010-02-08T02:28:08+00:00 false 3419 2010-02-08T02:28:08+00:00 1188 0 The blog compiles into pure HTML. No runtime needed on your host. Ultra-fast and light. No database. No headaches. Host anywhere. A live example is hosted on <a href="http://nanoc3-blog.mgutz.com" rel="nofollow" >htp://nanoc3-blog.mgutz.com</a>. For more: <a href="http://nanoc3-blog.mgutz.com/about.html" rel="nofollow" >About nanoc3_blog</a> and <a href="http://nanoc3-blog.mgutz.com/2010/01/15/getting_started_with_nanoc3_blog.html" rel="nofollow" >Getting started</a> 2010-02-08T00:44:04+00:00 false 3418 2010-02-08T02:04:48+00:00 1214 0 I just launched <a href="http://www.matthewhutchinson.net/2010/2/7/fake-it-till-you-make-it" rel="nofollow" >a 'fake out' rake task</a>. Using the very excellent Faker gem by Benjamin Curtis this task can be configured to populate your models with random amounts of fake information. This can a be a real time-saver for load testing, preparing demos/screencasts, or just filling up your pages with realistic data so you can get to work on your views. Here's <a href="http://www.matthewhutchinson.net/2010/2/7/fake-it-till-you-make-it" rel="nofollow" >the blog post</a> and <a href="http://gist.github.com/296041" rel="nofollow" >the script as a Gist on GitHub</a> 2010-02-07T21:06:31+00:00 false 3417 2010-02-08T02:05:14+00:00 1213 0 <a href="http://blog.eliotsykes.com/2009/10/28/how-to-use-rails-templates-in-wordpress-themes/" rel="nofollow" >Step-by-step guide</a> so you can call "rake blog_theme:update" to update your WordPress blog theme with a Rails layout. <a href="http://blog.eliotsykes.com/2009/10/28/how-to-use-rails-templates-in-wordpress-themes/" rel="nofollow" >View guide</a> 2010-02-07T17:45:58+00:00 false 3416 2010-02-07T17:45:58+00:00 1212 0 My <a href="http://seancribbs.com/tech/2010/02/07/wrap-your-sql-head-around-riaks-map-reduce/">second post</a> about Riak explains how to convert your SQL queries into Map-Reduce jobs. 2010-02-07T15:06:49+00:00 false 3415 2010-02-07T15:06:49+00:00 71 0 After all the feedbacks I got on <a href="http://www.dorkalev.com/2010/01/loop-chat.html" rel="nofollow" >Loopchat</a>, I decided to launch <a href="http://www.dorkalev.com/2010/02/sikwamic-simple-key-value-with-comet.html" rel="nofollow" >Sikwamic</a>, a simple rackware, that enables you to use REDIS over HTTP and with COMET style LONG POLLING. enjoy. 2010-02-07T13:32:53+00:00 false 3414 2010-02-07T13:32:53+00:00 1211 0 Acts as the Default RSS reader for Safari and redirects to Google Reader by default. Easily modified to redirect to another URL or launch another app - <a href="http://isaac.kearse.co.nz/2010/02/07/safarirss/">Read More Here</a> 2010-02-07T04:30:59+00:00 false 3413 2010-02-07T05:38:56+00:00 1146 0 Just <a href="http://seancribbs.com/tech/2010/02/06/why-riak-should-power-your-next-rails-app/">posted</a> on my <a href="http://seancribbs.com">blog</a> 7 reasons why <a href="http://riak.basho.com/">Riak</a> is awesome, and why it's a good fit for your next Ruby web application. 2010-02-06T21:26:45+00:00 false 3412 2010-02-06T21:26:45+00:00 71 0 Just released <a href="http://proutils.github.com/dnote/">DNote v1.1</a>. DNote is a command-line tool for scanning Ruby source for developer's notes and laying them out in the format of your choice. This release adds a few extra formats and improves upon the underlying implementation. 2010-02-06T20:01:45+00:00 false 3411 2010-02-06T20:03:32+00:00 516 0 Well since I now have a rails 3 application in production and more on the way, I starting <a href="http://metaskills.net/2010/2/6/simple-script-console-function">updating my shell aliases</a> to a new ZSH function that can 'script/console' or 'rails console' depending on my apps setup. 2010-02-06T15:32:32+00:00 false 3410 2010-02-06T15:32:32+00:00 150 0 <a href="http://ruby-whois.com/">Whois</a> is an intelligent pure Ruby WHOIS client and parser. The first Whois major release is now available. Whois 1.0 includes Client, Answer, Parsers and CLI interface. <a href="http://www.simonecarletti.com/blog/2010/02/ruby-whois-1-0-is-here/">Read More</a>. 2010-02-06T13:00:45+00:00 false 3409 2010-02-06T13:00:45+00:00 937 0 <a href="http://www.mendable.com/sometimes-the-best-way-to-create-is-to-remove/">Remove features and create better software. A quick look at maintaining bloated software projects.</a> 2010-02-06T10:16:13+00:00 false 3408 2010-02-06T10:16:13+00:00 873 0 Here's a blog post about how to implement a <a href="http://danlucraft.com/blog/2010/02/writing-a-tree-provider/">a tree view</a> in Redcar, the Ruby text editor. 2010-02-06T07:44:29+00:00 false 3407 2010-02-06T07:44:29+00:00 371 0 In a trifecta (tutorial, example app and live sample) of geek bliss I've married <a href="http://www.anthonyeden.com/2010/02/rails-jquery-unobtrusive-js-and-graceful-degradation/" rel="nofollow" >jQuery and Rails 2.3.5 in a way that is both unobtrusive and that degrades gracefully</a>. While I'm sure we're all looking forward to seeing how UJS with jQuery in Rails looks when Rails 3.0 comes out of beta, the techniques described in <a href="http://www.anthonyeden.com/2010/02/rails-jquery-unobtrusive-js-and-graceful-degradation/" rel="nofollow" >my post</a> can be used now in Rails 2.3 apps. 2010-02-06T07:37:12+00:00 false 3406 2010-02-06T07:38:19+00:00 1209 1 Rails 3 Beta Requires a little extra <a href="http://matt-hulse.com/articles/2010/02/05/massaging-rails-3-beta-on-windows/">help</a> to get going on Windows. 2010-02-06T07:03:33+00:00 false 3405 2010-02-06T07:03:33+00:00 938 0 Step by step tutorial to build a Rails plugin with Rails 2.x and Rails 3.0 compatibility in addition to a compilation of links about the new API for plugins. <a href="http://boldr.net/upgrade-plugins-gems-rails-3/">Read more</a>. 2010-02-05T22:26:28+00:00 false 3404 2010-02-05T22:26:28+00:00 493 6 Some of my Polish colleagues have done something worth mentioning. Well, maybe not, but it's Friday evening damnit! Watch porn with help of your ruby scripts or even irb with <a href="http://github.com/qoobaa/xxx">xxx</a> gem! 2010-02-05T21:18:44+00:00 false 3403 2010-02-05T21:53:23+00:00 749 0 I've decided to <a href="http://www.railsinside.com/misc/389-im-handing-rails-inside-over-to-you.html">open up RailsInside.com to public submissions.</a> If you want some publicity or want to promote your plugin/library/whatever, you can now write a post for <a href="http://www.railsinside.com/">Rails Inside</a> and I'll put it up. Anything that's not very poorly written or total nonsense will probably be accepted! 2010-02-05T19:02:51+00:00 false 3402 2010-02-05T19:02:51+00:00 5 danoo 1 Visit <a href="http://rails3info.com" rel="nofollow" >rails3info.com</a> and find out all you need to know about the new Ruby on Rails 3! Tutorials, presentations and articles in one convenient place. 2010-02-05T16:55:20+00:00 false 3400 2010-02-05T16:55:20+00:00 0 Yehuda's post includes <a href="http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/rails-3-beta-is-out-a-retrospective/">a high-level overview of most of the changes, along with some of his personal thoughts on the changes and future</a>. 2010-02-05T15:56:48+00:00 false 3399 2010-02-05T15:56:59+00:00 590 Gregory Brown 0 Over on the RBP blog, I've been releasing chapters of "Ruby Best Practices". See the announcement for <a href="http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/015-rbp-ch1.html" rel="nofollow" >Chapter 1</a>, and for <a href="http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/gregory/rbp-ch2-3.html" rel="nofollow" >Chapters 2-3</a>, and download some free PDFS! 2010-02-05T14:29:08+00:00 false 3398 2010-02-05T14:29:08+00:00 0 As time goes on, many Rails teams find that the rate at which they can add or improve features (known as the team's velocity) is significantly reduced. To address this problem, teams should adopt practices that allow them to <a href="http://www.ecommercedeveloper.com/articles/1618-Ruby-on-Rails-Code-Metrics-Identify-Weaknesses-Strengthen-Code">identify risky and high-maintenance code</a> and refactor the code to improve it. 2010-02-05T13:25:09+00:00 false 3397 2010-02-05T13:25:09+00:00 875 0 I just launched <a href="http://gemcutter.org/gems/lazygem">LazyGem 0.0.1</a>, this allows you to auto install all of the gems that your subscribed too on GemCutter.org. feedback, comments or even refactoring are welcome. This is my first gem release. 2010-02-05T07:53:44+00:00 false 3396 2010-02-05T18:14:11+00:00 965 1 So <a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-install-rails-3-0-prerelease-beta-2955.html">the beta of Rails 3.0 is now out!</a> I've published <a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-install-rails-3-0-prerelease-beta-2955.html">some instructions</a> on how to install it. 2010-02-05T04:09:57+00:00 false 3395 2010-02-05T04:10:42+00:00 5 1 <a href="http://www.enlightsolutions.com/articles/five-ways-to-prepare-your-application-for-ruby-on-rails-3-today/" rel="nofollow" >A list of things you can do today to adopt some new conventions coming with Rails 3</a> 2010-02-04T23:02:35+00:00 false 3394 2010-02-04T23:02:35+00:00 1108 0 <a href="http://github.com/dcrec1/active_lucene">ActiveLucene</a> is like ActiveRecord but with Lucene the full text search engine, know the details in this <a href="http://www.diegocarrion.com/2010/02/04/full-text-search-in-jruby-with-activelucene/">post</a>. 2010-02-04T18:08:42+00:00 false 3393 2010-02-04T18:08:42+00:00 461 0 <a href="http://gemcutter.org/gems/rack-force_domain" rel="nofollow" >Rack::ForceDomain</a> (or <a href="http://github.com/cwninja/rack-force_domain" rel="nofollow" >source on GitHub</a>): Because the alternatives were <a href="http://tomlea.co.uk/posts/0004-rack-force-doman/" rel="nofollow" >too complex for my simple mind</a>. Usage on the back of a stamp: <code> $ gem install <a href="http://gemcutter.org/gems/rack-force_domain" rel="nofollow" >rack-force_domain</a> $ heroku config add DOMAIN="foo.com" use Rack::ForceDomain, ENV["DOMAIN"] </code> 2010-02-04T17:51:25+00:00 false 3392 2010-02-05T04:08:46+00:00 1201 0 I often have websites that need to have similar functionality. <a href="http://www.saturnflyer.com/blog/jim/2010/02/03/non-standard-extension-locations-in-radiant/">Here I discuss a simple way to manage standard and custom extensions</a> between different sites. 2010-02-04T17:23:17+00:00 false 3391 2010-02-04T17:23:17+00:00 993 georgebrock 2 Spriter is a new gem that makes CSS sprites easy to create and maintain. (<a href="http://www.reevoo.com/labs/2010/02/spriter/">Blog post</a> / <a href="http://github.com/reevoo/spriter" rel="nofollow" >GitHub</a>) 2010-02-04T17:15:15+00:00 false 3390 2010-02-05T20:45:14+00:00 4 <a href="http://litanyagainstfear.com/blog/2010/02/03/the-rails-module/">Learn about how the Rails module is awesome, and how you should be using it.</a> 2010-02-04T15:55:30+00:00 false 3389 2010-02-04T15:55:30+00:00 433 0 I just launched <a href="http://github.com/johnson/shadowgraph" rel="nofollow" >shadowgraph</a>, yet another YouTube copy in Rails. 2010-02-04T09:21:43+00:00 false 3388 2010-02-04T09:21:43+00:00 1203 0 <a href="http://github.com/winton/acts_as_archive">A Rails plugin called acts_as_archive</a> does just that. Very easy to set up and auto-migrates from acts_as_paranoid. 2010-02-04T01:01:41+00:00 false 3387 2010-02-04T01:04:45+00:00 312 0 <a href="http://tagaholic.me/2010/02/03/using-gemcutters-api-from-the-commandline.html">This post explains how to search gems, get a gem's information or compare gems</a> from the commandline using <a href="http://update.gemcutter.org/2010/02/01/january-changelog.html">gemcutter's recent api</a> and <a href="http://tagaholic.me/2009/10/14/boson-command-your-ruby-universe.html">boson</a>. 2010-02-03T23:35:07+00:00 false 3386 2010-02-03T23:35:07+00:00 663 0 If you're going to create a service oriented rails app with ActiveResource, why not cuke the frontend first, letting the frontend drive the services you'll eventually create in the backend service provider? Dupe is the factory-girl of services, and makes outside-in BDD with cucumber possible for a service oriented app. Get <a href="http://bit.ly/7M3de6" rel="nofollow" >gem installation instructions and an overview of the features</a> or check out <a href="http://bit.ly/9oEUoh" rel="nofollow" >an in-depth tutorial that takes you through the cuking process with dupe</a>. 2010-02-03T22:07:19+00:00 false 3385 2010-02-04T04:39:14+00:00 1173 Tom Lea 2 I made this <a href="http://github.com/cwninja/geminabox/" rel="nofollow" >geminabox</a> thingy to host our internal rubygems. It's dead simple. Kinda like a lazyman's Gemcutter.org, but just for your office, and with low quality graphic design. I <a href="http://tomlea.co.uk/posts/0003-gem-in-a-box/" rel="nofollow" >did a bloggings too</a>. I hope someone else finds it useful. 2010-02-03T20:59:51+00:00 false 3384 2010-02-03T20:59:51+00:00 1 Recommend <a href="http://rubular.com/">Rubular</a> for testing regex expressions. It's been very handy for this new gem I'm about to release called <a href="http://github.com/brainscott/lazygem">LazyGem</a> (My first gem release). 2010-02-03T17:58:08+00:00 false 3383 2010-02-03T17:58:08+00:00 965 0 Lukas Rieder, Alexander Lang and Eric Lindvall have created a <a href="http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2010/02/03/delayed-job-monitoring-plugin">Scout plugin for monitoring Delayed::Job</a>. With the plugin, you can graph and get alerts on running jobs, scheduled jobs, failed jobs and more. 2010-02-03T17:16:48+00:00 false 3382 2010-02-03T17:16:48+00:00 360 0 I just released a new version of the <a href="http://github.com/AtelierConvivialite/webtranslateit">webtranslateit gem</a>, to sync your translation files between the <a href="https://webtranslateit.com">Web Translate It</a> service and your app. The gem now include an executable, so you can sync the language files of any kind of apps (not only Rails apps). These tools should make your internationalization experience much more enjoyable. 2010-02-03T12:06:30+00:00 false 3381 2010-02-03T12:06:30+00:00 1061 0 The Rails team at <a href="http://www.xing.com">XING</a> developed the <a href="http://devblog.xing.com/ruby/alter-table-rails-plugin/">alter_table Rails plugin</a> to extend ActiveRecord migrations with MySQL’s native ability to run multiple alterations on a table in a single ALTER TABLE statement. 2010-02-03T10:39:12+00:00 false 3380 2010-02-03T10:39:12+00:00 963 0 <a href="http://pedromtavares.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/hfooad-chapter-5-good-design-flexible-software/">Check out</a> the fifth chapter of the book review I'm working on regarding O'Reilly's Head First - Object Oriented Analysis and Design. All native Java code translated to Ruby. 2010-02-03T05:35:12+00:00 false 3379 2010-02-03T05:35:12+00:00 1093 0 <a href="http://github.com/jcoglan/faye">Faye</a> is a toolkit for publish/subscribe messaging between web clients. It includes a JavaScript client library and two server backends, one for Rack based on EventMachine and the other a brand new version for Node.js. More info on <a href="http://blog.jcoglan.com/2010/02/02/faye-a-comet-client-and-server-for-node-js-and-rack/">my blog</a>. 2010-02-03T01:13:49+00:00 false 3378 2010-02-03T01:13:49+00:00 824 cloudhead 4 My goal was to create something really small (~300sloc), right on top of Rack, and make use of git & heroku whenever I could, foregoing the need for any kind of database. Comments are handled by disqus, and we got markdown, atom and templating support. Go check out <a href="http://cloudhead.io/toto" rel="nofollow" >http://cloudhead.io/toto</a> for more info. The repo's at <a href="http://github.com/cloudhead/toto" rel="nofollow" >http://github.com/cloudhead/toto</a> - enjoy! 2010-02-03T00:46:41+00:00 true 3377 2010-02-04T04:39:35+00:00