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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
Rails 2.1 is Here!
Rails 2.1: Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc just hit DHH’s blog.
RubyConf 2008 Liveblogging - Saturday Summaries
RubyConf 2008 Liveblogging - Saturday Summaries RailsConf Saturday Evening RailsConf Saturday Afternoon RailsConf Saturday Morning
MagLev rocks and the planning of the next Ruby shootout
MagLev rocks and the planning of the next Ruby shootout.
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
This Week in Ruby (May 29, 2008)
This Week in Ruby (May 29, 2008).
John Lam announces that IronRuby is runn...
John Lam announces that IronRuby is running an unmodified version of Rails.
Geek Threads: Git push, just the tip
Selling Git shirts (and soon to be Ruby shirts) at RailsConf.
Five Runs launches TuneUp
TuneUp is a centralized location to help you troubleshoot and optimize your Ruby on Rails application’s performance with help from others in the community.
Sazbean.com Interview with Heroku CEO
Sazbean.com has an interview with CEO James Linderbaum of Heroku, a Ruby On Rails online development platform
Sprinkle
Sprinkle is a new prototype tool that you can use to provision your servers/slices. Its declarative policy/state based approach for specifying how a remote system should be provisioned with intelligent logic to support dependencies, multiple installer types and remote installation is really compelling
Amazon SimpleDB and Rails
Using SimpleDB and Rails in No Time with ActiveResource
Micah Wedemeyer at AisleTen posted a blo...
Micah Wedemeyer at AisleTen posted a blog post on How to securely connect to a remote MySQL database using SSL
Classy Inheritance
Classy Inheritance adds a depends_on class method to your ActiveRecord model so that you can define requisite objects.
My guide to parsing with ruby
I wrote a paper about the various page scraping techniques I’m using on a few sites. It’s a fairly robust system, so I thought I’d share the technique and maybe get a few pointers and suggestions in return.
TraceViz: Visualizing traceroute output with graphivz
TraceViz: A Ruby script that creates a graph from multiple traceroute’s to (optionally) multiple target sites, and then generates a diagram from the result using GraphViz.