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4 simple steps to detect & fix slow Rails requests
4 simple steps to detect & fix slow Rails requests - a tutorial on how we use Scout & the Query Reviewer Plugin to quickly fix slow web requests.
Japanese Open Source Rails Community?
What are the flagship Japanese open-source Rails apps? The anglophone open-source Rails community is large, but I’ve yet to see a “killer app” project that even resembles the popularity or best-of-breed open source apps available in the PHP world (think Wordpress or Drupal). All we have are clones; nothing that’s so amazing that we use it for any reason other than that it’s built on Rails. Has the Japanese community built anything better? Stuff that’s not being covered by the English-speaking Rails community.
David Flanagan talks to RubyLearning
David Flanagan, author of “The Ruby Programming Language” talks to the participants of the Free Online Ruby Programming Course in this interview.
Open Source Rails Rereleased
Open Source Rails, a social gallery for open sourced Ruby on Rails applications has been redesigned and rereleased. It has also been open sourced.
Simple Localization in Rails 2.2
A short tutorial/exploration of the upcoming localization features scheduled for Rails 2.2.
acts_as_paranoid and counter_cache
acs_as_paranoid and counter_cache don’t play well together. I wrote a little article explaining why, and how to make them play nice.
Rails TakeFive interview with Ari Lerner
FiveRuns has posted this week’s Rails TakeFive interview with Ari Lerner of CitrusByte and PoolParty. Check it out here.
Fetches: Rails plugin for simple, DRY parameter-based record fetching
Fetches is a new Rails plugin that allows you to easily create memoizing parameter-based record-fetching helpers in a controller.
Merb Presentation from Austin On Rails
Downtown Cartel recently did a presentation to the Austin on Rails group. Here’s a brief write up with the presentation and a few other neat Merb goodies
Hyperactive Resource Released
HyperActive Resource is a Rails plugin that makes ActiveResource work more like it should! If you are using ActiveResource, you need to get HyperActive!
ActivePresenter
ActivePresenter is a presenter library that works just like ActiveRecord, so you already know how to use it!
How to Reach Enlightenment and Get Your Site Indexed by Search Engines
An article about working with XML Sitemaps and using a neat Ruby script to ping search engines and keep them informed about your site content. [more inside]
Creating a Contact Form using Merb & DataMapper
Learn the flexibility of Merb and DataMapper by creating a simple Contact Form. Merb’s flat file structure and DataMapper’s table-less models, and validations are emphasized.
Planet Vancouver.rb Now Spinning
Planet Vancouver.rb now collects Ruby/Rails news, postings, discussions from in and around Vancouver, B.C. on Canada’s West Coast in the Americas. Get your feed included.
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]
iPhone Configuration Web Utility using Rails
The iPhone Configuration Web Utility uses Rails.
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.