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Introduction to TextMate's Ruby Bundle
An interesting introduction to TextMate’s Ruby bundle. A good place to start if you use TextMate but haven’t used any of the mnemonics and snippets the Ruby bundle provides (like me).
Rails plugin to do TextMate-style Syntax Highlighting
tm_syntax_highlighting is a new Rails plugin that allows you to do TextMate-style syntax coloring in your app (GitHub repository).
Capistrano 2.3.0
Yehey! Capistrano 2.3.0 is released. It has many new tasty features!
Rails gets more mature
I posted a summary of some of the nice new features coming in Rails 2.1. In short, many of the rough spots are being patched over!
Rails TakeFive with Xavier Noria
Have posted a Rails TakeFive interview with Xavier Noria
Ruby Hoedown 2008 - Huntsville, AL August 8-9
The Ruby Hoedown for 2008 is going down in Huntsville, Alabama on August 8 and 9. Keynote speakers so far are David Black and Chris Wanstrath. Engine Yard and Ruby Central are sponsoring.
An Entire Rails Team for Hire in London, UK.
Everyone is looking for programmers, but how about an entire team! A team of London based Rails / Web 2.0 developers for hire.
Getting exif data with image_science
Extending ImageScience and getting exif data from a photo
An Open Letter for DHH from India
An open letter from India to Mr. David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails.
Mack Framework: Saying Goodbye to ActiveRecord
Mark Bates, author of Mack framework, decided to support only DataMapper and remove native support of ActiveRecord in his project. He described the reason why he choiced DataMapper instead of ActiveRecord.
alonetone: Rails app for musicians (open source)
alonetone is the first non-commercial Rails-powered web app providing musicians with unlimited space to upload and share their tunes. The software behind it is open source (GitHub repository).
Ruby compiler tutorial
A multi-part tutorial on writing a compiler in Ruby.
Rails Envy podcast, with FiveRuns developer Adam Keys
FiveRuns developer Adam Keys joins Jason Seifer And Gregg Pollack in this week’s RailsEnvy podcast.
New Relic release
New Relic lets you get serious about Rails performance. Profile your production environment in real time and live.
Phusion Passenger 1.0.3
Phusion Passenger 1.0.3 now available for inclusion in Rails Servers built via Elastic Server On-Demand. Build, deploy, and launch to Amazon’s EC2 in one click!
Hobofields: Automatic Migration Generator
Hobofields is an automatic migration generator. Annotate your model with the fields required as you go, then Hobofields generates the required migrations.
Gemstone enters Ruby space: MagLev - Ruby built on Smalltalk VM
InfoQ reports MagLev: Gemstone builds Ruby runtime based on Smalltalk VM. Article contains interview with MagLev Project manager, technical details and comments by Avi Bryant (who’s involved with the project).
How to fine tune inflector in Merb
Another blog post on Merb: this time on fine tuning inflector in Merb.
Semantics is not Syntax
New post from FiveRuns developer Mike Perham on his switch to Ruby. Fundamentals matter, even as times change.
Webistrano - Capistrano Web-UI
Webistrano 1.3 has been released; read the announcement. Webistrano is a Web UI for managing Capistrano deployments. It lets you manage projects and their stages like test, production, and staging with different settings. Those stages can then be deployed with Capistrano through Webistrano.
better vendor/gems
A better approach to vendor/gems that will likely be unnecessary with config.gem in Rails 2.1
“AkitaOnRails” Advises A Young Ruby Beginner
Fabio Akita advises a 16 year young Ruby beginner.
Ruby Web Server in 1 Line of Code
Have seen a rather clever Web server in a single line of Ruby code over at Code Snippets.
Small Moments of Elegance
Just posted this article by FiveRuns head of development and technology, Steve Sanderson. Check out Steve’s thoughts on the beauty that can come from simplifying technical and user experiences while reducing the amount of code.
Parsing Quoted Strings in Ruby
If you need to parse quoted strings in Ruby, a lesser-known module called Shellwords from the Ruby Standard Library is a handy utility.