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Convert numbers to English words
I’ve created rails plugin that converts numbers (integers) to its textual presentation in English or Polish. You can find it here: http://github.com/tomaszmazur/verbal/tree/master [more inside]
Advise for Ruby Beginners
A collection of the best of RubyLearning posts on ‘Advise for Ruby Beginners’. Ruby Gurus like David Black, Charles Nutter, Fabio Akita, Ola Bini, Peter Cooper amongst others, offer pearls of wisdom.
FiveRuns Manage and Phusion Passenger
FiveRuns has posted a refresh on how the FiveRuns Manage Rails application monitoring service works with Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails). Check it out here.
Dutch version of RubyFlow
A dutch version of RubyFlow has launched. Hopefully it will attract dutch rubyists and persuade them to contribute.
RubyFlow in Chinese!
There is now a Chinese version of rubyflow - please check it out and contribute to the Chinese ruby community.RubyFlow中文版发布 Rubyflow 是一个社区驱动ruby的链接网站，项目不会自动加入，但会经过社区的选择和概括，以成为一个比书签群链更高质量的链接 flow.rubynow.com
Hoptoad, a hosted replacement for exception_notification
thoughtbot has released hoptoad, a hosted replacement for exception_notification that detects duplicate errors and offers email and RSS notification of errors.
YARD == RDoc next generation?
YARD is an extensible Ruby doc generator, a la Javadoc. It also allows to add optional type annotations.
Thoughts on Writing Optioned Software
Thoughts on Writing software with opinion In this post, the author rants about Ruby on Rails, market and why personal opinion must be considered when developing applications.
Vancouver.rb Q&A with Jim Pick on Ruby and Cloud Computing
Vancouver.rb Q&A with Jim Pick on Ruby and Cloud Computing, Distributed Ruby and Wikis and More
Radiant 0.6.8 released - gets an online global extension registry
Radiant 0.6.8 has just been announced. In this release git support has been added along with a smart new online extension registry. Radiant is a Rails-based CMS.
4 simple steps to detect & fix slow Rails requests
4 simple steps to detect & fix slow Rails requests - a tutorial on how we use Scout & the Query Reviewer Plugin to quickly fix slow web requests.
Japanese Open Source Rails Community?
What are the flagship Japanese open-source Rails apps? The anglophone open-source Rails community is large, but I’ve yet to see a “killer app” project that even resembles the popularity or best-of-breed open source apps available in the PHP world (think Wordpress or Drupal). All we have are clones; nothing that’s so amazing that we use it for any reason other than that it’s built on Rails. Has the Japanese community built anything better? Stuff that’s not being covered by the English-speaking Rails community.
David Flanagan talks to RubyLearning
David Flanagan, author of “The Ruby Programming Language” talks to the participants of the Free Online Ruby Programming Course in this interview.
Open Source Rails Rereleased
Open Source Rails, a social gallery for open sourced Ruby on Rails applications has been redesigned and rereleased. It has also been open sourced.
Simple Localization in Rails 2.2
A short tutorial/exploration of the upcoming localization features scheduled for Rails 2.2.
acts_as_paranoid and counter_cache
acs_as_paranoid and counter_cache don’t play well together. I wrote a little article explaining why, and how to make them play nice.
Rails TakeFive interview with Ari Lerner
FiveRuns has posted this week’s Rails TakeFive interview with Ari Lerner of CitrusByte and PoolParty. Check it out here.
Fetches: Rails plugin for simple, DRY parameter-based record fetching
Fetches is a new Rails plugin that allows you to easily create memoizing parameter-based record-fetching helpers in a controller.
Merb Presentation from Austin On Rails
Downtown Cartel recently did a presentation to the Austin on Rails group. Here’s a brief write up with the presentation and a few other neat Merb goodies
Hyperactive Resource Released
HyperActive Resource is a Rails plugin that makes ActiveResource work more like it should! If you are using ActiveResource, you need to get HyperActive!
ActivePresenter
ActivePresenter is a presenter library that works just like ActiveRecord, so you already know how to use it!
How to Reach Enlightenment and Get Your Site Indexed by Search Engines
An article about working with XML Sitemaps and using a neat Ruby script to ping search engines and keep them informed about your site content. [more inside]
Creating a Contact Form using Merb & DataMapper
Learn the flexibility of Merb and DataMapper by creating a simple Contact Form. Merb’s flat file structure and DataMapper’s table-less models, and validations are emphasized.
Planet Vancouver.rb Now Spinning
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.