2 The new <a href="http://github.com/grosser/bitfields">'bitfields' Rails plugin and gem</a> allows simple bitfield managements for ActiveRecord and others, produces fast(indexable) sql for query and bit-setting. 2010-03-10T20:19:25+00:00 false 3570 2010-03-10T20:19:25+00:00 845 0 The APN (Apple Push Notifications) on Rails plugin has moved to a new <a href="http://www.metabates.com/2010/03/10/apn-on-rails-has-a-new-home/">home</a>. 2010-03-10T15:48:05+00:00 false 3569 2010-03-10T21:26:35+00:00 185 3 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. <a href="http://www.railway.at/2010/03/09/named-scopes-are-dead/">Read about the reasons and alternatives</a> in the <a href="http://www.railway.at">railway blog</a>. 2010-03-09T21:24:07+00:00 false 3566 2010-03-09T21:24:37+00:00 154 0 A <a href="http://railsfreak.com/post/436865973/be-pragmatic-with-your-time">pragmatic approach</a> discussing how to easily fit in a team and keep code flowing every day. 2010-03-09T14:11:31+00:00 false 3565 2010-03-09T14:11:31+00:00 1102 0 I just upgraded <a href="http://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet">bullet</a> gem to version 2.0 beta, which supports rails3 beta. Bullet gem helps you to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading. 2010-03-07T09:23:22+00:00 false 3560 2010-03-07T09:23:22+00:00 973 Ian Cowley 0 A round up of some of the best <a href="http://www.setfiremedia.com/blog/50-of-the-best-websites-developed-using-ruby-on-rails" rel="nofollow" >sites created with Ruby on Rails</a>. 2010-03-05T09:30:45+00:00 true 3555 2010-03-06T06:35:48+00:00 0 <a href="http://outoftime.github.com/2010/03/03/sunspot-1-0.html">Sunspot 1.0</a> 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. 2010-03-04T20:01:42+00:00 false 3553 2010-03-04T20:01:42+00:00 567 0 In <a href="http://railscoach.com/episode-11-testing-your-application/">this episode</a> of the <a href="http://railscoach.com/">Rails Coach Podcast</a>, we discuss why your application needs tests, why developers and QA both have responsibility for testing, and what you should be testing. <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=346089573">Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast.</a> 2010-03-04T14:26:32+00:00 false 3549 2010-03-09T02:59:33+00:00 1258 0 Baseball Statz is a Rails app hosted on Heroku that uses the Ruby powered <a href="http://github.com/timothyf/gameday_api" rel="nofollow" >Gameday API</a> which provides live MLB stats. View all the stats for today's games <a href="http://baseballstatz.heroku.com/scoreboard?year=2010&month=3&date=3" rel="nofollow" >here.</a> 2010-03-04T03:36:10+00:00 false 3548 2010-03-04T03:36:10+00:00 1257 0 In <a href="http://railscoach.com/episode-10-understanding-and-growing-business/" rel="nofollow" >this episode</a> I discuss the value that developers gain and add by understanding business and how their employer or client makes their money. 2010-03-03T20:31:48+00:00 false 3547 2010-03-03T20:31:48+00:00 1258 0 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 <a href="http://lucidcode.co.nz/blog/archives/2010/03/02/testing-email-delivery-in-rails-with-gmail-httparty/">an action that delivers email and then check my Gmail inbox</a> for the email in question. 2010-03-03T01:32:18+00:00 false 3544 2010-03-03T01:59:37+00:00 1146 9 Where to start and how to learn <a href="http://dalibornasevic.com/posts/11-vim-for-rails-development">Vim for Rails Development</a> by referencing some books/screencasts. 2010-03-01T21:43:23+00:00 false 3539 2010-03-01T21:43:23+00:00 895 0 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. <a href="http://bit.ly/aFnMZK" rel="nofollow" >Read Full Article</a> 2010-03-01T18:15:17+00:00 false 3536 2010-03-01T20:17:18+00:00 1249 0 An example app of <a href="http://nextsprocket.com/tasks/gettext-on-rails-3-0-0-beta" rel="nofollow" >gettext on rails 3.0</a>. Got another ruby/rails gem you need to get upgraded to 3.0? post it on Next Sprocket! 2010-03-01T17:42:36+00:00 false 3535 2010-03-01T18:03:56+00:00 1256 0 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 <a href="http://steve.dynedge.co.uk/2010/02/28/slug-less-pretty-permalink-based-urls-in-rails/" rel="nofollow" >here</a>. 2010-02-28T15:16:07+00:00 false 3532 2010-02-28T15:16:07+00:00 1154 0 For anyone tired of managing translations in YAML files, Rails 3's I18n ActiveRecord backend is <a href="http://www.dev-fr.com/archives/2010/02/27/rails-3-let-activerecord-manage-your-translations/" rel="nofollow" >easy to setup and use</a>. 2010-02-28T09:15:02+00:00 false 3531 2010-02-28T09:15:02+00:00 1254 0 I just sleepily wrote <a href="http://terrbear.org/?p=249">mongrations</a>, a Rails plugin that gives you migrations for MongoMapper. 2010-02-27T05:19:01+00:00 false 3528 2010-02-27T05:19:01+00:00 555 0 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 <a href="http://www.skorks.com/2010/02/using-ruby-on-rails-with-oracle-and-deploying-it-all-to-tomcat/">get your Rails app working with an Oracle database and deploy it all to Tomcat as a Java webapp</a> if that wasn't enough. 2010-02-26T10:29:09+00:00 true 3524 2010-03-06T06:35:29+00:00 924 5 Here are some tips for setting up a Rails 3.0 Beta environment using <a href="http://amerine.net/2010/02/24/rvm-rails3-ruby-1-9-2-setup.html">RVM and Ruby 1.9.2 </a> 2010-02-24T18:56:43+00:00 false 3519 2010-02-24T18:56:43+00:00 1132 0 <a href="http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/rails-and-merb-merge-orm-agnosticism-part-5-of-6/">How DataMapper, Sequel and other ORM's are now first-class citizens in Rails 3</a>. 2010-02-23T18:22:05+00:00 true 3518 2010-02-24T01:00:34+00:00 590 0 Here is an <a href="http://railsontherun.com/2010/02/22/speed-up-your-rails-xml-responses/">interesting blog post</a> to show how to speed up your Rails XML responses by adding some <a href="http://tenderlovemaking.com/">tenderlove</a> to your code. 2010-02-23T07:34:12+00:00 false 3516 2010-02-23T07:34:12+00:00 96 Justin Baker 2 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! <a href="http://bit.ly/afxQR8" rel="nofollow" >Read The Full Article</a> 2010-02-23T00:00:45+00:00 false 3513 2010-02-23T01:00:53+00:00 8 In <a href="http://antoniocangiano.com/the-best-ruby-on-rails-hosting-services/">this report on Rails hosting</a>, I recommend some of the best Rails hosting services for all budgets. 2010-02-21T19:41:10+00:00 false 3509 2010-02-21T21:12:33+00:00 534 0 A new <a href="http://blog.writelesscode.com/blog/2010/02/21/netzke-core-update-embedding-a-widget-cant-be-easier/">blog post</a> 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. 2010-02-21T19:36:17+00:00 false 3508 2010-02-21T19:36:17+00:00 597 6 Introducing the new <a href="http://github.com/moonmaster9000/binder">binder</a> gem. Read about the impetus for this <a href="http://moonmaster9000.tumblr.com/post/401320361/binder-for-all-your-esoteric-proc-closure-needs">here</a> and <a href="http://moonmaster9000.tumblr.com/post/398991873/creating-cleaner-apis">here</a>. Checkout the source <a href="http://github.com/moonmaster9000/binder">here</a>. 2010-02-20T23:25:31+00:00 false 3505 2010-02-20T23:25:31+00:00 1173 4 I just posted a blog <a href="http://zigzag.github.com/2010/02/14/from-textmate-to-vim-for-rails-coders.html">From TextMate to VIM for Rails Coders</a>. <b>The mouse is NOT needed anymore for Rails coding</b>. -- 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? 2010-02-20T14:58:09+00:00 false 3503 2010-02-21T01:20:09+00:00 1140 0 I recently installed the awesome <a href="http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/" rel="nofollow" >Ruby Version Manager</a>, mainly to run Rails 2 and Rails 3 on the same system but also to try out Ruby 1.9. Here are <a href="http://blog.mhartl.com/2010/02/19/some-rvm-gotchas/" rel="nofollow" >some rvm gotchas</a> I ran into along the way. 2010-02-19T20:04:04+00:00 false 3501 2010-02-19T20:04:04+00:00 1238 0 I've just updated mongo_session_store with Mongoid support. I also wrote a blog post to learn <a href="http://boldr.net/rails-sessions-mongodb">how to use mongo_session_store with MongoMapper and Mongoid</a>. 2010-02-18T17:08:16+00:00 false 3495 2010-02-18T17:08:16+00:00 493 0 We've just posted the <a href="http://www.viget.com/extend/rails-3-generators-the-old-faithful/">first stop on our tour of the changes in Rails 3's generators</a>. 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!) 2010-02-18T13:09:25+00:00 false 3494 2010-02-18T13:09:25+00:00 782 Ruby on rails developer 10 <strong>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.</strong> Although <a href="http://www.railsteam.com/" rel="nofollow" >Ruby on rails</a> has many advantages for developers in terms of ease of developing applications <em>[snip]</em> 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 <a href="http://www.railsteam.com/" rel="nofollow">web application</a> cannot be searched by different search engines. 2010-02-18T13:09:12+00:00 false 3493 2010-02-18T19:58:00+00:00 1 Users never have to wait for cached pages to be generated (unlike the page caching that ships with Rails). Inspired by Pivotal Labs' <a href="http://pivotallabs.com/users/steve/blog/articles/262-rails-slashdotted-no-problem">Rails, Slashdotted: no problem</a> I've created this <a href="http://github.com/eliotsykes/page_cache">Page Cache plugin</a> to give Rails holeless/seamless page caching. The <a href="http://github.com/eliotsykes/page_cache">README and source is on github</a> and here's the <a href="http://blog.eliotsykes.com/2010/02/17/new-rails-page-cache-plugin-for-holeless-seamless-page-caching/">blog post explaining how I use it</a>. 2010-02-18T11:03:19+00:00 false 3491 2010-02-18T19:55:35+00:00 1212 0 When I try to find a guide about how to write rails generator, I can’t find a good one. So I decide wrote <a href="http://www.allenwei.cn/the-missing-guide-of-rails-2-generator-part-1/" rel="nofollow" >The missing guide of rails 2 generator part 1</a>. Though Rails 3 will come, but I think people will keep using rails 2 for a long period. 2010-02-18T10:15:52+00:00 false 3490 2010-02-18T19:55:20+00:00 1237 0 <a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/2/5/rails-3-0-beta-release">Rail 3.0 is now in beta</a>. I don't know about you, but I've already written my first Rails 3 application. Allow me to <a href="http://blog.railsmachine.com/articles/2010/02/17/smooth-devoperations-deploying-rails-3-with-moonshine/">share with you the tale of deploying it</a> with <a href="http://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine">moonshine</a> 2010-02-18T00:05:18+00:00 false 3488 2010-02-18T00:05:18+00:00 256 0 Early Bird Tickets are available for <a href="http://rubynation.org" rel="nofollow" >RubyNation</a>, 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. 2010-02-17T22:11:32+00:00 false 3487 2010-02-17T22:12:15+00:00 1236 0 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: <a href="http://www.idolhands.com/ruby-on-rails/gems-plugins-and-engines/graphing-for-ruby-on-rails-with-seer" title="Introduction to Seer, a Ruby on Rails wrapper for the Google Visualization API">Simple, Semantic Graphing for Ruby on Rails with Seer</a>.</p> 2010-02-17T01:56:12+00:00 false 3478 2010-02-17T01:56:12+00:00 982 0 I wrote a introductory <a href="http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2010/02/16/building-real-time-web-apps-with-rails3/">blog post</a> on how to use Cramp with Rails3 to build Real-Time Web Apps .. <a href="http://www.web2media.net/laktek/2010/02/16/building-real-time-web-apps-with-rails3/">Read the post</a> 2010-02-17T00:49:38+00:00 false 3476 2010-02-17T04:45:01+00:00 342 Matias Korhonen 0 The <a href="http://frozenrails.eu" rel="nofollow" >Frozen Rails</a> 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. 2010-02-16T22:21:54+00:00 false 3473 2010-02-16T22:21:54+00:00 0 José Valim from <a href="http://plataformtec.com/">PlataformaTec</a> just released a <a href="http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2010/02/rails-metrics-know-what-is-happening-inside-your-rails-3-application/">screencast about RailsMetrics</a>. 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. 2010-02-16T18:30:01+00:00 false 3469 2010-02-16T18:30:01+00:00 665 0 I've recently been working on a <a href="http://railsfreak.com/post/393057600/fun-with-activerecord">feature</a> that required UNION's, locking, and much more. 2010-02-16T18:14:33+00:00 false 3467 2010-02-16T18:14:33+00:00 1102 0 <a href="http://code.google.com/p/twilio-on-rails" >Trails</a> is built using the Twilio Ruby Library to make it easier to integrate the Twilio API into a Rails application. 2010-02-16T00:26:45+00:00 false 3462 2010-02-16T00:26:45+00:00 1149 0 The <a href="http://github.com/skozlov/netzke-demo">netzke-demo</a> project has been updated with a live <a href="http://netzke-demo.writelesscode.com/window">demo of Netzke::Window</a>. Netzke is as framework that greatly facilitates creation of reusable ExtJS/Rails components. 2010-02-15T15:47:40+00:00 false 3458 2010-02-15T15:47:40+00:00 597 0 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 <a href="http://www.skorks.com/2010/02/fetching-rss-feeds-with-ruby-from-behind-a-proxy/">do about our proxy problems and fetch some feeds</a>. 2010-02-15T10:17:46+00:00 false 3455 2010-02-15T10:17:46+00:00 924 1 <a href="http://www.inspectinator.com" rel="nofollow" >Inspectinator</a> -- an online parser for ruby/rails #inspect strings. Still playing around with the parsing a bit, but should be mostly working. <a href="http://techspeak.plainlystated.com/2010/02/announcing-inspectinator.html" rel="nofollow" >More details/feedback</a> 2010-02-15T03:50:32+00:00 false 3454 2010-02-15T07:18:07+00:00 441 0 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 <a href="http://www.railway.at/2010/02/13/avoiding-rails-3-dependency-hell-with-rvm/">latest blog post</a> over on the <a href="http://www.railway.at">railway.at blog</a> to find out how you can avoid running into dependency hell by using <a href="http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/">Ruby Version Manager (rvm)</a>. 2010-02-14T11:44:02+00:00 false 3451 2010-02-14T11:44:02+00:00 154 0 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: <a href="http://jarinheit.com/a-talk-i-gave-at-sd-ruby-deploying-rails-apps" rel="nofollow" >http://jarinheit.com/a-talk-i-gave-at-sd-ruby-deploying-rails-apps</a> ... Slides: <a href="http://slideshare.net/jarinudom/deploying-rails-applications-with-moonshine" rel="nofollow" >http://slideshare.net/jarinudom/deploying-rails-applications-with-moonshine</a> ... SD Ruby: <a href="http://sdruby.com" rel="nofollow" >http://sdruby.com</a> 2010-02-13T14:37:34+00:00 false 3449 2010-02-13T22:23:18+00:00 1224 2 The day has finally arrived where you can run a browser-less javascript + DOM environment from within Ruby. <a href="http://github.com/mynyml/harmony">Harmony</a> offers a convenient DSL that allows you to get started simply and easily. There is even a Rails plugin (<a href="http://github.com/mynyml/holygrail">holygrail</a>) for functional tests. You can now leverage the power of the command line to do with JS what once required a browser. 2010-02-12T20:52:25+00:00 true 3447 2010-02-12T22:01:22+00:00 775 1 Devise (a full authentication stack for Rails) reaches 1.0 after four months since its first release! <a href="http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2010/02/happy-birthday-devise/">Carlos describes in this post</a> 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. 2010-02-12T19:21:58+00:00 false 3445 2010-02-12T19:21:58+00:00 665 1 Zhao Lu (aka @zlu) has shared <a href="http://blogs.voxeo.com/tropo/2010/02/12/ruby-on-rails-example-for-tropo-web-api-without-port-forwarding/">a tutorial</a> 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 <a href="http://blogs.voxeo.com/tropo/2010/02/12/ruby-on-rails-example-for-tropo-web-api-without-port-forwarding/">how to use Tunnlr with Rails to punch through firewalls without port forwarding...</a> 2010-02-12T17:33:20+00:00 false 3443 2010-02-12T21:58:43+00:00 668 0 Lessons learned from building <a href="http://www.homemarks.com">HomeMarks</a> native iPhone application to synchronize Core Data with a RESTful backend built using rails 3.0.0.pre. <a href="http://metaskills.net/2010/2/12/synchronizing-core-data-with-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.</a> 2010-02-12T03:08:41+00:00 false 3440 2010-02-12T03:08:41+00:00 150 balvig 0 <a href="http://www.balvig.com/work/easy-version-management-for-rails-applications-using-versionmaster-and-capistrano/" rel="nofollow" >VersionMaster</a> - a plugin to manage version numbers (eg. "v1.0.8" etc) for Rails apps and having it automatically update whenever a new release is deployed using Capistrano. 2010-02-12T02:06:47+00:00 false 3439 2010-02-12T02:06:47+00:00