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Ruby Interview: Adam Keys of FiveRuns.com
Adam Keys of FiveRuns.com gives a different perspective and answers many of the questions facing would-be Ruby developers, in this interview.
First Ruby design meeting notes
First Ruby design meeting notes posted.
Interview with Chris Wanstrath (defunkt)...
Interview with Chris Wanstrath (defunkt) of GitHub,ErrTheBlog,etc
Pure Ruby barcode generation library
Barby is a pure Ruby barcode generation library that’s just been released.
Artificial Intelligence libraries for Ruby
Dustin Arthur Smith maintains a list of AI / Artificial Intelligence related Ruby plugins / libraries.
Heel: small static Web server
Heel is a “small static Web server” written in Ruby and using Thin that serves up a directory over HTTP.
Subdomain routing with rails
A definitive guide to subdomain routing with Rails. Feedback is appreciated!
Ruby library to translate text between languages
Tranexp is a new Ruby library by Dr. Nic Williams that translates text between languages using the Tranexp web service.
Why mod_rails is a really good thing for light-duty Ruby on Rails
Why mod_rails is a really good thing for light-duty Ruby on Rails
This Week in Ruby (April 21, 2008)
This Week in Ruby (April 21, 2008): a summary of this week’s highlights from the Ruby and Rails communities.
Slapp: A simple chat wall Merb tutorial.
Here’s a nice, comprehensive Merb tutorial for creating a simple chat wall.
Aintablog: Open source tumblogging on rails
Aintablog: Open source Tumblogging with Rails. Right now, it has integration with Flickr and Twitter, as well as any third party feed (RSS, Atom, etc). You can also write your own posts (with defensio protected comments). The code is over at GitHub as well.
Is the Enterprise world, Rails ready?
Is the Enterprise world, Rails ready?
JRuby - Or how I manage to write Ruby in a strict corporate environment
Matthew Williams wrote a blog post titled: JRuby - Or how I manage to write Ruby in a strict corporate environment, detailing his experience working with Ruby (and Rails) in a strict corporate environment with the use of JRuby and NetBeans.
Import Gmail Contacts using Ruby on Rails
In the past, importing Gmail contacts was a bit of a hassle. One of the previous options was to use the Contacts gem, but now that the Google Contacts API has been released, it offers a more secure way to retrieve contacts. The Contacts API allows redirecting and authenticating users through Google, instead of forcing them enter their Gmail password into a third party application. Here is a quick tutorial to get up and running on Rails with the Gmail Contacts API.
Seed Fu: Simpler Seed Data for Rails
Seed Fu is a new Rails plugin that provides a simplified syntax for creating and maintaining “seed data,” the pre-loaded data necessary to run an application.
Security Vulnerability Found in ImageMagick
A security advisory has been released for libpng, the “official PNG reference library”. ImageMagick, a popular image manipulation library used in many Ruby web applications. Details at the Ruby on Rails Security Project.
Japanese version of RubyFlow
RubyFlow-Ja is a Japanese translation of RubyFlow by Erubis creator Makoto Kuwata. It’ll be linked permanently on RubyFlow soon.
forkoff: parallel processing for ruby enumerables
Forkoff is a library by Ara Howard that forks off separate processes to more efficiently and quickly process data stored in enumerable objects. Very clean and easy to use.
A multiplayer ajax music game in Rails
MassiveMusicQuiz is a multiplayer music quiz written in Rails and that makes intensive use of Prototype. It has already served up to a thousand players simultaneously.
Ruby the language design meetings
There are rumours that Ruby implementation authors finally may start collaborating more and on regular basis. Maybe the MRI team will even consider switching to the Ruby specs suite Rubinius and JRuby use?
Text Algorithms for Ruby
A Collection of Text Algorithms for Ruby. Basically, just a set of classes that perform various text functions, such as stemming, soundex analysis, Levenshtein distances, etc.
RSpec response.should Information Enhancers
RSpec user? Getting expected redirect? to return true, got false? Now you can have much smarter / more verbose error messages.
Metaprogramming Ruby
A detailed presentation about metaprogramming and advanced OO techniques in Ruby.
Ruby Graphical Mac Apps
Ruby-Processing 0.8 is out, with the ability to export any of your sketches as a Mac application.