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Simple Rails Full Text Search with Xapian
Step by step instructions for getting Xapian running in Rails with the acts_as_xapian plugin.
New MVC Public Service Announcement video
The latest in the MVC Public Service Announcement video series from RailsEnvy and FiveRuns’ Adam Keys.
Mapstraction + GeoKit with Rails
Mapping stuff may be old but it’s still a handy topic - Mapstraction and Geokit make it really easy to add geographically-specific information to your application without issue. In my recent post I covered both briefly and how / why they’re handy.
Rails Envy Podcast #39 and new MVC Video
Your weekly Ruby and Rails news is here, Rails Envy Podcast #39 is out. We also released a New MVC Public Service Announcement Video if you need a good laugh.
Guy Naor, CTO Morph Labs Interview
RubyLearning talks to Guy Naor, CTO Morph Labs. Morph Labs, is a provider of Platform as a Service for web applications.
Open Flash Chart Plugin for Ruby on Rails - Graphs
Open Flash Chart Plugin for Ruby on Rails - Graphs
Nginx + HaProxy gotcha
I’ve recently switched from using a straight up Apache mod_proxy + mongrel setup to Nginx + HaProxy + mongrel. Here’s a brief overview of why, along with a gotcha I ran into, with a solution.
Open-sourcing RubyFlow
I know there was some talk about open-sourcing RubyFlow, but what happened? Is it really worth keeping the source closed?
Want to contribute something to a Ruby cultural artifact?
I’m creating a non-profit quarterly Ruby / Rails magazine and am looking for contributors. The “magazine” will act as a cultural artifact of the Ruby scene. About 15 Rubyists will supply a page of any content of their choosing, perhaps tips, art, rants, coding stories, self promotion, whatever. Blogs may be deleted in the future, but paper lives on! [more inside]
Don't forget about RubyForge
Don’t forget about RubyForge
FiveRuns Developers to Speak at OSCON 2008
FiveRuns developers Adam Keys and Mike Perham are speaking at OSCON 2008 this week. Details here. Hope to see you there!
Announcing Kawaii
Kawaii is like a web-front end to script/console. It formats things you type in very nicely.
Make use of UNIX signals to easily toggle debug mode on any process.
Make use of UNIX signals to easily toggle debug mode on any process.
How to run Merb application using Thin Turbo adapter
Thin Turbo is a fast back end for Thin web server with most of performance critical parts all written in C. Learn how to run Merb application using Thin turbo adapter. It’s dead easy to start using Thin turbo, thanks to both Merb and Thin using Rack.
Merb roadmap: charging towards 1.0.
Merb blog has a post about Merb’s roadmap towards 1.0, issues that are left to be resolved and a call for arms to the community of developers.
Introducing merb-extlib
Merb is proven to be fast and use benchmark suites instead of guessing what takes time in your program. So recent extraction from merb-core, called merb-extlib, is a good choice if you need a fast lightweight Ruby core classes extensions library.
koopd
Unfortunately Rails and SWFUpload don’t work together without a little bit of tweaking to our Rails applications. We’ll show you how to make it work.
Mobilize Your Rails Apps with Mobile Fu
Mobile Fu is a new Rails plugin that makes it really easy to support a variety of non-iPhone mobile devices in your Rails application, including device-specific CSS targeting.
Free Book: Ruby on Rails 2.1 - What’s New (7 translations)
Free Book: Ruby on Rails 2.1 - What’s New (7 translations)
Charles Nutter talks to JRuby Newbies
On the eve of a new JRuby course at rubylearning.org, Charles Nutter gives some advise to JRuby newbies.
Setting up a long term fork with Git
I recently had to fork a project and it won’t be merged back. Exchanging patches of code will still be relevant however. I decided to manage this with Git. Here’s how I set up this long term fork.
Camping Explained: The beginning
I have published Camping Explained: The beginning, the first part of a series on the cool stuff behind Camping.
http://rethink.unspace.ca/2008/7/20/we-are-rubyfringe
RubyFringe was absolutely awesome. Best conference ever. Loads of inspirational rocking talks, fantastic people. Great vibe. Lots of love out to the Unspace crew for organising it!
EditorKicker 0.1.0 released
EditorKicker 0.1.0 is released. EditorKicker is a pretty tool to invoke TextMate or Emacs and open files automatically when exception raised in your CGI or Rails script. It can reduce turn-around time of web application development. If you are Rails developer, try EditorKicker plugin for Ruby on Rails.