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Videos from Why the Lucky Stiff
Did you know that our friend Why the Lucky Stiff has published some funny Ruby-vidoes?
Rails plugin to enhance the activerecord conditions hash
Put up a rails plugin called ‘conditions_fu’ that enhances ActiveRecord with the ability to use a full-featured condition hash during a find, similar to DataMapper.
Write your javascript in ruby with rubyjs
Recently published blog post about rubyjs, a nifty gem that compiles ruby into javascript:
Library for creating and manipulating your own parse trees
Cry provides a simple interface to create, manipulate, and evaluate parse trees in Ruby meta-programming.
Anouncing RubyDiff
Check out rubydiff , it’s a neat tool for doing high-level diffs on ruby code. I have a longer post about it as well with some examples.
Tips, help and links needed for Ruby Inside RSpec Roundup
Tips, help and links needed for Ruby Inside RSpec Roundup: I’m looking at creating a “round up” of useful RSpec tutorials, links, videos, resources, tips, blog posts, anything like that, for Ruby Inside. If you’ve written an article about RSpec (or want to - you’ll get traffic!) or want to recommend something I can link to, please leave a comment here.
Ruby Fishy Edition
My thoughts on Ruby Enterprise Edition and Phusion.
Getting Started with Merb: Routing and Controllers
Part 2 of an on-going series on Merb basics, this episode features: an introduction to setting up routes and writing controllers, with a focus on providing responses in multiple formats using ‘provides’ and ‘display’ (equivalent to Rails’ respond_to functionality).
Cachetastic 1.7.0 Released
The simple, yet extremely powerful, Ruby caching framework, Cachetastic has been upgraded to 1.7.0.
PHP Bench - Somebody please build this for Ruby
“PHP Bench was constructed as a way to open people’s eyes to the fact that not every PHP code snippet will run at the same speed.” [more inside]
Rails is a pre fab house
Yehuda Katz, Ruby Hero, Merb/DataMapper/Jquery core member posted this interesting metaphor comparing Rails and Merb.
attachment_fu tutorial
If you wanted to add attachments to your models, attachment_fu is a great plugin to make it easy for you. I have created a tutorial for you to help you get started.
Pool Party
Pool Party - Cloud EC2 Computing Made Easier
RubyConf 2008 Lightning Talk Roundup
RailsConf 2008 Lightning Talk Roundup: 36 talks in 3 days!
MVC videos from RailsConf 2008
MVC videos featuring FiveRuns developer Adam Keys and Jason and Gregg from RailsEnvy.
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.
Let's create a Ruby Benchmark Suite
Let’s create a Ruby Benchmark Suite.
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.