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Service Merchant: Billing Module for your SaaS web application is here
ServiceMerchant is a Ruby library that takes care of recurring billings and subscriptions of your SaaS application. It sits on top of well known library ActiveMerchant and gives you the variety of choice among payment providers. See http://servicemerchant.org for details
Babylon: Determine the language of a text
Babylon provides an eay way to determinate a text’s language using the Google AJAX Language API via John Nunemakers HTTParty gem. Just download the gem via: gem install babylon and read the Readme file or the docs for further information.
Merb.vim
If you are a Vim user, you may be interested by the Merb plugin for Vim.
Walk-Through Test Coverage
Generate test coverage data one file at a time using a walk-through test coverage task.
ImageTooth: Produce odontograms from Ruby (teeth diagrams)
ImageTooth is a library that provides programmers and users a simple way to generate images for odontograms from Ruby programs. You can choose between PNG and JPEG output.
Pacecar
Pacecar is a collection of useful named_scopes for your ActiveRecord projects. Similar to the excellent utility_scopes gem, but broader in… scope.
Rails helper for testing access control with RSpec
A helper for testing access control with RSpec - built to simplify the testing of controller actions that need restricting.
Little Known Ways to Ruby Mastery by Stuart Halloway
The Path to Ruby Mastery Interview Series by Ruby Masters, provides guidance to and answers questions confronting Ruby beginners from across the globe. Today, Stuart Halloway reveals his secrets!
Code-O-Lanterns: What Scares You?
I put together a few code themed carving files for the Mac OS X screen saver Jack-O-Lantern from the guys at Killer Robots. Also included are some desktop files for those on Windows. Taking Code-O-Lantern requests.
"We ain't got no RSpec" - The Birthday Regift
“We ain’t got no RSpec” - It’s the gift that keeps on giving; but this time it’s being regifted as a ringtone
Arabic Helper: Localize your Rails App to Arabic
Arabic Helper: A plugin to help you localize your Rails app to Arabic, this include few useful helpers and ActiveRecord localization [more inside]
Calculating Age in Rails
I thought figuring out the age of my Rails application’s users was going to be easy. Or maybe not.
Restful Authentication i18n
The Restful Authentication Rails plugin now works with Rails 2.2 i18n support: [more inside]
Ruby on Rails for Student Recruitment
A new open source software is nearing beta that will help bring Ruby on Rails deeper into the halls of higher education. [more inside]
ffmpeg-ruby first release 0.1.0
ffmpeg-ruby is a ruby C extension binding to ffmpeg/libav* library. [more inside]
Merbcamp Day 2
The second day of fun and frivolity on merb from merbcamp
Super simple CRUD for Sinatra
Sinatra’s Hat is a project that allows you to mount one of your models (DataMapper, ActiveRecord, or otherwise) as a RESTful service in one line. So if you have a Post model, you can expose it RESTfully like so: mount Post. There are also options for adding additional format parsers, response formatters, basic auth and more.
Watch MerbCamp Live!
You can watch all MerbCamp presentations live here:
Merbcamp highlights
For those that couldn’t make merbcamp, here’s a quick run down on some of the merbcamp highlights
FiveRuns has Released TuneUp for Merb
FiveRuns has released TuneUp for Merb. If you’re doing Merb development and looking for ways to improve your app performance, you should definitely check it out!
Beautiful Bar Charts With Ruby and Gruff (Easy and Simple)
A very simple tutorial about how to easily create some simple bar charts (and graphs in general) using Gruff.
Automatic Tag/Keyword extraction from textual content now wrapped in a Gem
Using Yahoo!’s Term Extraction Webservice it’s now pretty easy to extract tags a.k.a. keywords from any textual content (works best with texts written in English but it’s still ok for other languages as well) with the Tags4Free Gem available at: Rubyforge and GitHub (source) - For further information have a look at the docs. [more inside]
Roles and Security
Some tips on using roles and security
View the Build Status of OSS Ruby and Rails Projects on RunCodeRun
The latest release of RunCodeRun - a hosted Continuous Integration service for Ruby and Rails - now supports public browsing of the open source projects that have been building there. Check out the build status and build histories for projects like RSpec, Shoulda, Tarantula, and others.
How to Create Own Form-Helpers in Rails
There’s a simple article with explanations and example, how you could write own form-helper methods for a ruby-on-rails based project, so they were beautiful and handy like the built-in ones. Article