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I LOVE HAMBURGERS
I love hamburgers so much that I opened up my own hamburger joint…it’s called “Johnny ROckets!”
Understanding Ruby Singletons
Yet another look into the world of the Ruby singleton class, taken from my Accelerated Ruby workshop.
Performance Tuning Rails
How to do performance tuning on a Rails app after taking care of database performance.
Last Rails Envy MVC Video + Out-takes
Remember those Rails Envy MVC Public Service Announcment videos released at Railsconf earlier this year? The last MVC Video + Out-takes has just been released. [more inside]
Little Known Ways to Ruby Mastery by Jamie van Dyke
The Path to Ruby Mastery Weekly Interview Series by Ruby Masters, provides guidance to and answers questions confronting Ruby beginners from across the globe. The first in this series is by Jamie van Dyke from UK. Read the full interview - Little Known Ways to Ruby Mastery by Jamie van Dyke.
Loading custom code in Rails
Loading custom code in Rails
Getting The Most Out of IRb With Inspect
Getting Most Out of IRb With Inspect
country_select
I created country_and_region_selectplugin because rails core team really make me sad about the country_select helper. Read More.
How companies should hire developers
Hashrocket is hiring Rails developers or how companies should hire developers
High-Performance DNS for the Cloud
A how-to for taking advantage of the Cloud to do seamless migrations and infrastructure updates with the help of dynamic DNS.
Rails guides
Official Rails guides could use some reviewing :
Validating your Fixtures with Rails and Test::Unit
Here’s a quick and dirty way to ensure that you’re using valid data for your fixtures. I’m not sure what the potential problems of basing all your tests on invalid data are, but I’m sure there’s go to be something…
Ruby and Ruby On Rails Jobs (in UK, Europe, US and Worldwide)
If you’re looking for a new Ruby / Rails job you may find this list of links useful. I will try to keep it as up-to-date as it can be and feel free to add your links too.
Roodi 1.3.0 released
Roodi (Ruby Object Oriented Design Inferometer) 1.3.0 has been released. It checks your code for design issues. Roodi now contains 13 checks plus config file support.
Three Great Ruby Events Start October 11
Great Lakes Ruby Bash [more inside]
Djikstra's Algorithm in Ruby
LinkedIn engineering blog has a post about Djikstra’s Algorithm in Ruby
Halcyon 0.5.4 Released!
Halcyon 0.5.4 has been released! Minor improvements including support for controllers nested in modules and POST bodies formatted as application/json! [more inside]
Ruby on Rails desktop background
I created a cool Rails desktop background last night, just playing around with Photoshop. Feel free to download it and use it if you like it.
Using Autotest For Rails Plugin Development
Help me flesh out this project. The Autotest::Railsplugin class aids in the development of rails plugins by using autotest.
FiveRuns Rails TakeFive Interview with Mike Subelsky
FiveRuns has posted this week’s Rails TakeFive interview with Mike Subelsky of OtherInbox. Check it out here.
Acts_as_slugable plugin and why you need it
Acts_as_slugable is a pretty awesome little plugin that can give your app some much improved URL slugs. Read more about why it might be useful.
A few Active Record tips
You might find this helpful
Analyzing your GMail history with Ruby
Had some fun analyzing and visualizing my GMail account data.
Extending Your irb
As a Ruby developer, you probably spend a reasonable amount of time in script/console or irb. What you may not have known was that you can extend and give your irb more functionality and make your life easier. I’d like to introduce you to ~/.irbrc. This article will explain how to extend your irb and all the tips and tricks you will need to know.
Raramorph The Ruby Arabic Morphological Analyzer
eSpace-Technologies has released Raramorph The Ruby Arabic Morphological Analyzer