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New rails app goes live: Swirrl
Last week, my company launched our new application, Swirrl, developed with Ruby on Rails. This blog post explains what it’s all about. Please sign up for free, try it out and let us know what you think.
Creating Valid Records with Populator and Faker
Here’s a quick how-to for Creating Valid Records with Populator and Faker. This is a great technique for loading up a database for demos, acceptance testing, or design.
Simple filterered search using drop downs with Thinking Sphinx
Thinking Sphinx is amazing. Here is a short tutorial on filtering some of those results: davidwparker.com
Why I love ramaze and what it could improve
Here’s why I love ramaze: multi-app, multi-db app, ~50 lines, one file, zero proprietary plugins, rake tasks, generators, etc. No bending of the framework whatsoever. Use require, use modules, pure ruby, pure joy. :) Why I love ramaze and what it could improve
Rails Rumble 2008 Registration Open
Rails Rumble 2008 is now open for registration. Only 200 spots open so sign up now.
Watir Podcast
Watir Podcast: Željko Filipin talks with Watir developers and users about Watir.
iPhone Plugin for Rails
The rails_iui plugin has been improved and is now TankEngine
Braid update: local cache!
Major improvement for Braid: In the newest version Braid has local caching for dependencies, please try it out and see, if your work is getting more productive and happier! Great Braid news - now with local cache!
Bort! Now with OpenID!
I’ve just pushed a new version of Bort to github with OpenID integration. Rejoice!
Setting up SSL for rails, and testing it locally.
I recently blogged about how to configure SSL for rails, and how you can test the set-up on your Mac without having to deploy to your production server.
Rails TakeFive with Karmen Blake
FiveRuns has posted this week’s Rails TakeFive interview, this week featuring Karmen Blake of GeneTree. Check it out here.
Using hoptoad in production deployments of OSS projects
Though I’d share with everyone how we use Hoptoad in our production deployments of our own open source projects. Using git and separate branches/repos we can have sensitive code (like New Relic/Hoptoad accounts) in our code, and still have it out of the publics sight, and gain the full benefit from using those products to improve our code.
Importing and Exporting Very Large Data Sets in Rails
How to import/export large CSV data in Rails very quickly.
Should http://guides.rails.info/ replace the official Ruby on Rails Wiki?
The ongoing hackfest at http://guides.rails.info/ to create up to date and very in depth documentation on the various components of Rails is quickly becoming a valuable resource while the official wiki quickly grows out of date with stale information and dead links. Is it time for an official wiki hackfest to bring it up to snuff or is it something that should be laid to rest?
The complete steps to install Merb and DataMapper
If you want to install Merb and DataMapper with RugyGems, you should not do it, because Merb requires DataMapper 0.9.6 or highier, but only 0.9.5 is releasted officially. So you should install them from source, but it is difficult to perform, so I wrote how to install them from source: The complete steps to install Merb and DataMapper from source.
Date Range String Conversions
Make use of date range string conversions similar to the string conversions used for dates and times.
MerbCamp Outpost in London
MerbCamp Outpost, gathering of Rubyists who are going to watch live webcasts from MerbCamp in San Diego on Oct. 12th, organized London Ruby community. [more inside]
Famous Ruby Personalities: Who do you recommend?
RubyLearning salutes the Famous Ruby Personalities that have helped Ruby developers and enthusiasts have fun, joy and be happy while programming! Rock Stars, Rising Stars in the Ruby Community - who do you recommend?
Hierarchy of class and metaclass in Ruby 1.9
Hierarchy of class and metaclass in Ruby 1.9 (and Smalltalk) (in Japanese). Red direction represents ‘is-a’ relation. Black direction represents ‘extends’ relation. Gray represents singleton class.
My first Rails application
Blogging about my first Rails application experience and the problems I encountered.
acts_as_audited gains parent record tracking
I extended acts_as_audited with some additional functionality for tracking the parent of the audited record. Not an everyday use case, but a good fit for PowerDNS on Rails.
Presents for Her
Unique Gifts For Her Offers Wide Variety OF Gifts For Women, Mother, Wife, Sisters,Girlfriends On Different Occasions & Festivals Like Birthday, Christmas, Or More,To Celebrate & Express Your Feelings.
Deploying a bundled merb app
Matt Aimonetti blogger mainly known because of his Rails on the Run website, started a new blog called: merbist.com and posted an interesting post about deploying a bundled/frozen merb app. [more inside]
Rails for PHP Developers News
The Rails for PHP Developers website has been updated with several new articles including empty values, learning type casting, and using blocks. The PHP to Ruby Reference has also been expanded with more functions.