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MVC Public Service Announcement Videos
Just posted the MVC Public Service Announcement Videos we showed before each keynote at Railsconf. Also, as Peter mentioned in his railsconf post, if you missed Railsconf this year, check out my Railsconf in 36 minutes video for some cool interviews.
Converting Videos with Rails and FFMPEG
The second article in a series about converting videos with ruby on rails and FFMPEG
Sequel 2.0 Released
Sequel 2.0 has been released. Sequel is a popular database / SQL abstraction library. It provides thread safety, connection pooling and a concise DSL for constructing database queries and table schemas, as well as a simple ORM layer.
Announcing Two New Fast Markdown Libraries for Ruby
If you are looking for a faster Markdown library (say, 59 times faster) Ryan Tomayko has something for you.
Ruby TMTOWTDI, Episode 1
The inaugural post in a series that we’ll be calling Ruby TMTOWTDI (There’s more than one way to do it). Usually the TMTOWTDI acronym is used as a disparaging term towards flexible languages, which offer a myriad ways of solving most given problems. This series, however, aims to use this property of Ruby as an educational tool.
Using request.ssl? when proxied behind Apache in Rails
Using request.ssl? when proxied behind Apache in Rails
mod_rails 2.0 supports Rack (that is, Merb, Sinatra, etc)
mod_rails eventually runs Merb, Sinatra and other Rack-based frameworks and applications starting with version 2.0.
Passenger v2.0 Releasing Today
Phusion announced that Passenger v2.0 and Enterprise Ruby v1.0 will be released today at their 9am RailsConf session.
Custom Protocols Considered Harmful: Thin & Rack are the Platform of the Future
Most daemon processes need stability, and a communications protocol. Currently, those tend to be implemented from scratch over and over again - something of an anti-pattern. It turns out that you can piggyback on thin, rack, and a little REST, to get those same things and more.
Time#advance Rails 2
Time#advance now uses :weeks, :hours, :minutes, :seconds options - Rails 2.0 a feature a day #1
Declarative exception-handling
Declarative exception-handling in your controllers - Rails 2.0 a feature a day #2
RubyConf 2008 Liveblogging - Saturday Summaries
RubyConf 2008 Liveblogging - Saturday Summaries RailsConf Saturday Evening RailsConf Saturday Afternoon RailsConf Saturday Morning
A Teeny-weeny mp3 player using Ruby and Shoes
Satoshi Asakawa a young Ruby enthusiast from Japan shows you how to quickly build a teeny-weeny mp3 player using Ruby and Shoes.
Ruby 1.8.7 is out
Ruby 1.8.7 is out. The official announcement is here. What makes this release significant is that it includes several backports from Ruby 1.9 alongside the usual batch of bug fixes and performance improvements. Enjoy!
RubyConf 2008 - Ruby Heroes Awards Results
Brief summary of last night’s Ruby Heroes Awards results.
Embracing your paranoia with acts_as_paranoid
I needed to start using acts_as_paranoid for a project, and didn’t see many good tutorials on it, so I wrote my own.
RailsConf 2008 - Friday Summaries
I’ve blogged as much as I can on today’s events in several posts: RailsConf Friday Evening Summary RailsConf Friday Afternoon Summary RailsConf Friday Morning Summary Surprise of the day: Maglev - Stay tuned for more!
Convention Over Configuration Multi-Step Wizards
ActsAsWizard is a rails plugin that is intended to make creating multi-step wizards a breeze. Using convention over configuration it should be a easy enough for a beginner.
Ubuntu Hardy Package Of mod_rails / Passenger
UK Rails hosting company Brightbox has released a Ubuntu Hardy package of mod_rails / Passenger. It’s available from the Brightbox repository at http://apt.brightbox.net and is called libapache2-mod-passenger