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A Huge Collection of Ruby and Rails Books
Here’s a huge collection of Ruby and Rails books coming out in 2008 and 2009.
Some details about Liquid Markup
I recently made A Blog post with some details about Liquid Templates. Hope you find it useful.
Drag and Drop in jQuery
Basic drag and drop in Rails using jQuery, or Why is Drag and Drop like a Nutty Bar?
FiveRuns adds Rails App Health Dashboard to FiveRuns Manage
FiveRuns has added a new Rails application health dashboard to the FiveRuns Manage service. This new view lets developers and sysadmins quickly assess the health of their Rails apps. Details here.
Writers needed for Ruby Inside & Rails Inside (paid)
Writers needed for Ruby Inside & Rails Inside (paid). I am looking to take on a writer/writers for Ruby Inside and/or Rails Inside. More information inside..
Docbox released
Ian Ownbey and Jeremy McAnally released a DocBox teaser today. You can update comments on the sample app, and then see the commits happen in real time on github.
WSO2 Web Services Framework (WSF) for Ruby 1.1.0 Released
WSO2, a prominent SOA company released the version 1.1.0 of Ruby extensions for their Web Services Framework (WSF/Ruby) on 23 July. [more inside]
Breadcrumbs II: the Internationalization
If your application speaks to users in more than one language, you might be interested in easy, flexible and internationalized breadcrumbs.
Fabio Akita on Locaweb and RubyLearning
Fabio Akita talks on Locaweb and RubyLearning to Satish Talim in this interview.
Simple Rails Full Text Search with Xapian
Step by step instructions for getting Xapian running in Rails with the acts_as_xapian plugin.
New MVC Public Service Announcement video
The latest in the MVC Public Service Announcement video series from RailsEnvy and FiveRuns’ Adam Keys.
Mapstraction + GeoKit with Rails
Mapping stuff may be old but it’s still a handy topic - Mapstraction and Geokit make it really easy to add geographically-specific information to your application without issue. In my recent post I covered both briefly and how / why they’re handy.
Rails Envy Podcast #39 and new MVC Video
Your weekly Ruby and Rails news is here, Rails Envy Podcast #39 is out. We also released a New MVC Public Service Announcement Video if you need a good laugh.
Guy Naor, CTO Morph Labs Interview
RubyLearning talks to Guy Naor, CTO Morph Labs. Morph Labs, is a provider of Platform as a Service for web applications.
Open Flash Chart Plugin for Ruby on Rails - Graphs
Open Flash Chart Plugin for Ruby on Rails - Graphs
Nginx + HaProxy gotcha
I’ve recently switched from using a straight up Apache mod_proxy + mongrel setup to Nginx + HaProxy + mongrel. Here’s a brief overview of why, along with a gotcha I ran into, with a solution.
Open-sourcing RubyFlow
I know there was some talk about open-sourcing RubyFlow, but what happened? Is it really worth keeping the source closed?
Want to contribute something to a Ruby cultural artifact?
I’m creating a non-profit quarterly Ruby / Rails magazine and am looking for contributors. The “magazine” will act as a cultural artifact of the Ruby scene. About 15 Rubyists will supply a page of any content of their choosing, perhaps tips, art, rants, coding stories, self promotion, whatever. Blogs may be deleted in the future, but paper lives on! [more inside]
Don't forget about RubyForge
FiveRuns Developers to Speak at OSCON 2008
FiveRuns developers Adam Keys and Mike Perham are speaking at OSCON 2008 this week. Details here. Hope to see you there!
Announcing Kawaii
Kawaii is like a web-front end to script/console. It formats things you type in very nicely.
How to run Merb application using Thin Turbo adapter
Thin Turbo is a fast back end for Thin web server with most of performance critical parts all written in C. Learn how to run Merb application using Thin turbo adapter. It’s dead easy to start using Thin turbo, thanks to both Merb and Thin using Rack.