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Lone Star Ruby Conf in 21 minutes
Lone Star Ruby Conference in 21 minutes video has been posted along with links to the Confreaks full presentation videos. [more inside]
Using Single Table Inheritance Is Okay
Single Table Inheritance is okay as long it is used correctly.
site wide announcements in rails using jquery (jgrowl)
Rails site wide announcement that: 1) uses jQuery (jGrowl), 2) gracefully degrades, 3) uses sessions/cookies. I based it on Railscasts 103.
Using Phusion Passenger in Facebook apps development
Andrew Ng wrote about how to use Phusion Passenger to do local Facebook Rails Application Development titled Using Phusion Passenger in Facebook apps development.
Mack-like Distributed Rails Objects
I needed some distributed objects like Mack has, so I ported over the code into a Rails plugin. Still in early development, use at your own risk.
Configatron 2.0.0 Released
Configatron has undergone a full rewrite and is now better, faster, and even easier to use than before! Check it out!
Bort v0.2 Released
Bort 0.2 released - Includes role requirements, css field with common selectors and easier plugin installation.
Super simple snippet for URL Decoding in...
Super simple snippet for URL Decoding in ruby thanks to Thomas Swift.
Finding The Opposite Of A Regular Expression In Ruby
A solution to find everything except a regular expression with a regexp! This method can also be used with other programming languages. You can find the link HERE.
New Relic RPM Lite avaialble
New Relic has released RPM Lite - free production monitoring of Ruby on Rails applications across as many apps and hosts as you’d like.
Exploring modules and patterns
In my quest for nice (meta)programming techniques in ruby, I wrote From Decorator Pattern to Before Filter 1 followed by From Decorator Pattern to Before Filter 2. It’s just thinking out loud hoping to hear: “hey good idea” or “there is a better way”.
Panda - open source video platform
Panda is an open source video platform written in Merb and running on Amazon EC2, S3 and SimpleDB.
Scaffolding Extensions and Ramaze - Getting off the ground
I wrote a mini tutorial how to get started with Scaffolding Extensions for Ramaze.
3 pillars of Rails monitoring
The 3 ways we breakdown Rails monitoring at Scout and the tools we use to do it.
shoulda now available as a gem
Shoulda, the Test::Unit framework that makes tests easy on the fingers and eyes, just hit 2.0.0, now plays nicely in Rails apps as a gem.
Relation from RailsConf Europe
I finally finished my relation from RailsConf Europe. You can read the coverage of day 1, DHH keynote, day 2 and day 3.
Ext JS TreeLoader with Ruby on Rails Tutorial
I’ve written a ExtJS TreeLoader with Ruby on Rails tutorial It’s mainly to help Ruby on Rails users to generate the JSON needed by TreeLoader.
Geospatial Searches With ThinkingSphinx
A fat guy walks briskly through setting up, geo-aware, ThinkingSphinx searches.
EditorKicker 0.2.0 released
EditorKicker 0.2.0 released: EditorKicker is a pretty tool to invoke your favorite editor (TextMate or Emacs) and open errored file automatically when an exception raised on your Ruby script.
Do you have any gripes with Rails?
What drives you nuts? Leave a comment to tell us what you don’t like about Rails!
Merb 0.9.7 released.
Merb 0.9.7 released: read the announcement at official Merb blog.
Active Record Single Table Inheritance
Maybe your Rails app could benefit from Single Table Inheritance?
Rails + Git + Braid + Shoulda tutorial
A tutorial describing, how to setup a Rails project with Git + Braid for tracking plugin/gem dependencies. Rails + Git + Braid + Shoulda tutorial Plugins/Gems used: Braid, Shoulda, factory_girl, factory_girl_on_rails, shoulda_generator.
How to test SSL in a Rails app
I had to implement SSL (again) today so I wrote up a quick guide to testing Rails controller actions that use SSL.
Tips For Testing Plugins
Want some tips for testing plugins? Sure you do.