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Rubyflow in Portuguese
A friend of mine and I put together a portuguese version of the RubyFlow. The site is called Rubyonda, which translates to rubywave.
Using Capistrano with Passenger (mod_rails)
An article covering the use of the newly released Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) with Capistrano
Heroku Gains $3 Million Fund for Hosting
Rails shines more as Heroku gets $3 Million Fund for developing its Hosting Scenario and Other Tools for Rails Support. More Information is available on TechCrunch.
Poor mans CDN
This article describes how to make a poor mans CDN with Nginx, Varnish, Merb and S3. Managing a large file system can be a pain while serving huge amounts of assets can quickly become expensive. A poor mans CDN is a cheap alternative to a ZFS disk array matched with a CDN.
Accessible Field Errors
Accessible Field Errors in Tight Spaces
Ruby Kaigi 2008 Announced
RubyKaigi 2008 (Japan’s Ruby conference) has been announced. Tickets are available to buy on Saturday, May 10.
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Why separation of MSpec from Rubinius matters
MSpec and RubySpec become submodules of Rubinius now and it matters for your day to day development if you use RSpec.
Howto: Ruby on Rails with RMagick on Windows + RubyStack + Aptana RadRails + Ruby Debug
Short howto on Ruby on Rails with RMagick on Windows + RubyStack + Aptana RadRails + Ruby Debug.
DevFi podcast #1 - Buy/Build/Fork - And interview with Dan Berger, forker of Ruby
The first DevFi podcast is up, about building vs. buying vs. forking, and includes an interview with Dan Berger who recently forked the Ruby interpreter, creating the Sapphire language.
See how Merb core boots on graph
Merb core now has a visualized graph of how the framework core boots. It probably will help a lot to wrap your head around Merb core internals.
Rails Gotcha: Disabled Sessions
A look at what happens when you disable the session in your Rails application controller and want to enable it elsewhere. Also, what happens when you disable sessions, but forget to disable forgery protection? Rails Gotcha #9.
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Reading a GPS Receiver with Ruby
How to read a GPS receiver with Ruby.
El Dorado v0.9.2 (Group Chat Edition)
Reposting… El Dorado version 0.9.2 (Group Chat Edition) has been released. This version of the “Rails app for small groups” adds a very simple real-time group chat to compliment the forum and file sharing features.
What To Do If GitHub Broke Your RubyGems
An interesting set of instructions on what to do if using gems.github.com as a Gem source breaks your RubyGems. The short version: Remove gems.github.com as a source, update your RubyGems install, then add it back.
Rails Views Entirely in JavaScript
How to write your Rails views entirely in JavaScript. Interesting idea, but I’m not sure of the benefit of this yet..
Complete Ubuntu 8.04 Rails Server - Part 1
Ubuntu 8.04 Ruby on Rails Server Guide. Part 1 of the guide is online. Part two will be online next week. Get your servers ready! SysAdmins Chronicles - Ubuntu 8.04 Server Guide
Routing in Rails 2.0
Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) - Part 3 of n
CommunityEngine
CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you’ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
Mack 0.5.0 Released
Mack 0.5.0 was released yesterday with the much debated ORM support changes.
RubyFlow Back On Track (ish)
With merely 10 minutes to fix this morning’s spam issue before I have to go out (now!) there were a whole range of balls ups and mistakes made, and so.. we’re now back on Sunday’s database. Sorry! [more inside]
JavaScript GitHub Badge For Your Blog / Site
The unstoppable Dr Nic has put together a JavaScript GitHub badge widget that allows you to show off which projects you’re working on at GitHub.
Picolena: Ferret-powered Document Search Engine
Picolena is a Ruby gem that provides an app that works as a Ferret-powered document search engine (accessible over HTTP).