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Merb: Routing 201
Merb: Routing 201 a summary of how routing works for those times when the ‘default’ routes or ‘resources’ are insufficient. This article will get you started on more useful Routing techniques.
Cote interviews FiveRuns
Michael Cote of Redmonk interviews Steve Sanderson, FiveRuns VP Development and Technology, and Bruce WIlliams, Rubyist and FiveRuns developer on the FiveRuns Manage 2.0 beta release.
If it says Katz, it's gotta be good.
Yehuda Katz release a new way to write scripts in ruby, I would highly recommend checking it out. By Thor’s Hammer!
Ubuntu Server 8.04 Rails Guide - Part 2
Ubuntu Server 8.04 Rails Guide - Part 2 The second part of the Ruby on Rails Guide that I started last week. Please post any comments or suggestions. Thanks!
New Version of FiveRuns Manage Rails Monitoring Product Available
FiveRuns has released Manage 2.0, the latest version of their Rails monitoring product, into public beta.
ActiveRecord Oracle "enhanced" adapter
ActiveRecord Oracle “enhanced” adapter is original Rails Oracle adapter with several new enhancements - performance improvements for schema dump operations, fix for database session store, and also better handling of date, integer and boolean data types when using Rails with legacy Oracle databases.
HAProxy Load Balancing & QoS for your App. Servers
Hands on how-to for optimizing response times and coordinating traffic between multiple clusters of app. servers, with the help of HAProxy.
Units Tests and Autocompletion
Jim Jones wonders if we shouldn’t be using the runtime data from unit tests to create an autocomplete feature for Textmate.
Javascript auto include rails plugin released
Jamie Dyer of Media72 Hosting has published the javascript_auto_include plugin which, as the name suggests, automatically includes javascript files in your template.
Chunky Iterator
A code snippet that lets you “iterate over large collections of Active Record objects without having to load them all at once, thus reducing memory usage”.
Distributed MVC in Merb
A neat approach to designing components for merb and good look at how it differs from rails. Distributed MVC
can_has_auth released!
Another option for easy user authentication in merb was released by me. It takes a new approach to merb plugins and makes it super simple. Also has a version for the edge version of datamapper. can_has_auth
This Week in Ruby (May 12, 2008)
This Week in Ruby (May 12, 2008): Ruby, Rails, Merb, etcetera.
Exception notifications for Merb
Looking for exception notifications for Merb application? Grab it at github.
Merb bootloaders explained
Merb bootloaders explained at Merb wiki. Highly recommended to Merb plugin author wannabees.
On Merb startup options and init files
Learn what configuration options in Merb cannot be specified in init file and why.
Huge list of Rails tips
A huge list of Rails tips
Rails 2.1 RC is out
Rails 2.1 RC1: Semi-official announcement by DHH via Twitter here.
after_create :pimp
after_create :pimp - how to automatically ping Google when you post a new content to your Rails web site.
TextMate Bundle for Merb
Thanks to Dr. Nic and Enginge Yard, there’s now a TextMate bundle for Merb.
Rubinius now runs Merb
Rubinius now runs Merb
dectxn - Rails Declarative Transactions Plugin
dectxn - Rails Declarative Transactions.
State of Merb on road to 1.0: the good, the bad and the ugly.
So you want to know what is the state of Merb on road to 1.0 scheduled May 29th…
Using Ruby in emacs screencast
Platypope has a good screencast demonstrating using Ruby in the emacs editor.
dectxn - Rails Declarative Transactions Plugin
New Rails plugin that provides declarative transaction management - dectxn - Rails Declarative Transactions Plugin.