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Old Migration Numbering
This post shows you how to revert back to the “old” migration numbering scheme.
Autotest Notification - Doom Edition
Autotest Notification - Doom Edition
Beginner ActiveRecord
I have just published a few beginner articles on ActiveRecord. I have three tutorials on one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many relationships. Hope it helps with setting up these relationships and using the objects in them.
On the Rubinius FFI
After reading the code of Rubinius FFI. I write a blog post to introduce it (with a simple example). The (almost) complete document for FFI is also presented, as well as a comparison to Python ctypes and a discussion on the future of FFI.
awesome_fields FormBuilder, headerize plugin
See the blog post: awesome_fields gets a FormBuilder that helps to create labeled and lined forms. Meantime, the headerize plugin lets you specify your stylesheet and javascript includes where you need them while still outputting the actual include/link tags in the header of the page.
Whoops
We decided to have a little fun with David as a thank you for the introduction to Ruby and Rails. www.whoopsonrails.com.
Ruby on Rails 2.1 What’s New - Second Edition
Presenting the second edition of Ruby on Rails 2.1 - What’s New.
Acts As Community: The Social Network for Rubyists
Acts As Community is a social network exclusively for Rubyists that has been developing over the past few months. It features standard social network fare (photos, videos, groups, events) as well as an open-source project directory integrated directly with GitHub and a Ruby job board.
Easy Ajax search for your models
Implement ajax searching for your Rails models easily. This tutorial uses acts_as_ferret plugin to help you get ajax search. For a tutorial on the acts_as_ferret plugin have a look at my acts_as_ferret tutorial on how to set the plugin up.
DocBox!
Ian Ownbey posts about his new Google Summer of Code project DocBox! DocBox allows people to wikimagically update documentation for your code, then updates the code with the new comments.
RailsConf 2008 MagLev video part 1
The first part of the RailsConf 2008 talk on MagLev is now online. Wow. Gimme gimme gimme!
Jruby's Future
The Future of JRuby with Thomas Enebo - Core JRuby Developer
Cross domain RESTful JSON-P with Rails
I’ve put together a blog post chronicling my cross site AJAX woes along with solutions on overcoming them using JSON-P, Rails and jQuery.
Brightbox release 2.0.2 of the Brightbox gem
Brightbox has released v2.0.2 of their deployment gem. The gem enhances the standard Capistrano deployment recipes with extra facilities.
InfoQ Interview: Avi Bryant on MagLev and GemStone
Avi Bryant talks about MagLev, GemStone’s merits and whether the Ruby future will be fragmented like the Smalltalk world.
Erubis 2.6.2 released to support Ruby 1.9
Erubis 2.6.2 is released to support Ruby 1.9. It contains a fix of problem about installation on windows. Erubis is another eRuby implementation. It is much faster and more extensible than ERB.
Guide to hacking Rubinius
Adam Wiggins has put together a quick start guide to hacking on Rubinius, an alternative Ruby implementation.
Capistrano 2.4.0 Released
Jamis Buck announces the release of Capistrano 2.4.0. It includes improved git support, an improved sudo helper, and numerous other enhancements.
Win a free book
Win a free copy of the book Professional Ruby on Rails. (Yes, we tried this a couple of weeks ago. It didn’t quite work, and we’re trying again).
How to run a ruby script within Mac OS X's Automator
I tried to use Automator once, but ran up against things it couldn’t do. With the Run Ruby Script by Jason Foreman it seems to be uber flexible now.
Rails-doc.org website opens
Rails-doc.org website opened. First release of the actual app will ship next week. Current release date target is June 18th. Rails-doc.org is the first Ruby on Rails documentation app that wasn’t developed by one guy in his underpants.
Easy and flexible breadcrumbs for Rails
I wrote a little article on how to create Easy and flexible breadcrumbs for Rails.
Easy-access rdocs
Shorten your access time to gem rdocs with this shell script.
Mocking web requests with FakeWeb
I wrote a short post on mocking web requests with FakeWeb.