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Let Austen Ito show you how he builds a ...
Let Austen Ito show you how he builds a basic infrastructure with Docker, Chef, and Rails!
Determining User and Location Coordinates with the Geocoder Gem
Location-based web applications calculate distance between objects using the latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates and the Haversine formula. But how does one determine an object’s coordinates given a street address or IP address, let alone calculate the distance between two sets of coordinates? Fortunately the Geocoder gem turns these otherwise complex tasks into a fairly trivial matter. In this post I’ll show you to to integrate Geocoder into your Rails application.
I RAM what I RAM: Smaller App Footprints through Benchmarking
Get a smaller Rails app footprint with two commands. A 36% boot time memory savings for free. Also learn how to benchmark and optimize your own application’s boot size.
Pakyow v0.9 Release
Pakyow, the view-first app framework for Ruby, dropped over the weekend. Release notes + upgrade guide.
liquid-rails v0.1.0 released
liquid-rails allows you to render .liquid templates with layout and partial support. It also provides filters, tags, drops class to be used inside your liquid template.
assets-rails v0.1.0 released
assets-rails allows you to require javascript and stylesheet libraries with the exact version so that your frontend stuffs will continue to work as times passed by. You can use different versions for different templates in a single Rails application.
tty-progressbar v0.2.0 released
tty-progressbar now includes estimated time token, a frequency option to throttle repainting and ability to log during display. Please check it out and let me know your thoughts.
Creating configuration files for Ruby programs
Some ideas about how to create configurations for ruby programs.
Reform 1.2 Is Out!
The popular form object for Ruby and Rails, Reform, got some new amazing features. It now allows dynamic syncing and saving, got a 85% speedup, a dirty tracker and more.
Pastel v0.3.0 released
pastel got even stabler and faster. Fixed bugs concerned with nested styles, improved speed and added ability to alias colors at runtime through environment variable and library interface. This is a component that will be part of tty toolkit
image_optim v0.19: better gif optimization and optional lossy jpeg worker
I’ve just released v0.19 of image_optim with improved gif optimization and new optional lossy worker for jpeg files which uses jpeg-recompress.
activerecord-after-transaction 0.1.0 Release!
I just launched activerecord-after-transaction which provide a function to execute a proc after the transaction.
Time zones and Daylight Saving Time
I wrote a blog post about considerations on Daylight Saving Time when using time zones.
Rails Stats: External and more complete "rake stats"
Check out your app’s stats. The tool is here. The blog post here has example output.
How to serialize Date and DateTime to JSON without losing information
This blog post teaches you that depending on the way you serialize your Date and DateTime values to JSON, you could lose information. Read more
Continuous Static Analysis using Pronto
A short walkthrough of how to configure Pronto to do static analysis on every pull request with the help of Travis. Can also be applied to other CI servers.
Nuts & Bolts #3: Show and tail multiple production remote logs with Capistrano
Sometimes you want to see what’s happening in your production log files right now. You can use log management tools like Loggly or Papertrail for this, but there is also an easy way to stream your log files with Capistrano. Read more
Make Outbound Calls From the Browser to Phone using Twilio in Rails
A step by step walkthrough of how to make browser to phone calls in Rails using Twilio
scriptster: Making your Ruby scripts pretty
I would like to introduce to you a small gem that I released last weekend. It’s called scriptster and its aim is to help you make your Ruby scripts a bit nicer (especially those that depend on many external tools).
Beer-A-Day - Open Data "Eternal" Page-A-Day Calender - beer.db Web App Sample in Rails
Hello, As an example of using the beer.db - open public domain beer n brewery data - I’ve put together a page-a-day “eternal” calendar serving a different beer w/ every request. See a live demo with an all-Austrian taproom or build your own. All code and data is public domain. Cheers. Prost. Kampai.
2014 Rails Rumble Gem Teardown
I just finished the 2014 Rails Rumble Gem Teardown, which is a detailed analysis of the gemfiles used by the rail rumble teams. A ton of fascinating stuff this year, including the rise of Bootstrap, Rails Assets usage, Autoprefixer domination, etc.
Codeship now integrating with Ninefold
For anybody using Ninefold and/or Codeship: The two services now integrate. Read more
`respond_to` without all the pain
When you generate a scaffold in Rails, you’ll see the usual respond_to blocks. But some of your actions, like index, don’t have them. And those actions, when hit with a bad format, will raise the wrong kind of error. You want to handle bad formats correctly, but littering all your controllers with big respond_to blocks is crazy. It feels un-Rails-ish. So what do you do?
An example of dependency inversion
I recently stumbled on such a good example of the Dependency Inversion principle being applied that I had to blog about it.
Rails Disco: Get Down with Event Sourcing
I wrote this post on using the rails-disco gem to implement Event Sourcing. The basics of ES are explained using a demo Rails app. Boogie!