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Nokogiri as a command line tool
You’ve probably used Nokogiri as a library to scrape sites. But did you know you could use it as a standalone script from the command line, too?
TDD and ActiveRecord in Rails
Check out my thoughts on TDDing ActiveRecord in Rails. Right here.
Active Admin, Kaminari and Rails boot up
I just wrote a blog post discussing Kaminari and Rails boot processes - http://dennismonsewicz.com/post/72443328114/active-admin-kaminari-and-rails-boot-up
Announcing X10Switch (Home automation with X10, Ruby on Rails and Raspberry Pi)
X10Switch is a Home Automation web application that runs on your mobile device and allows you to control X10 modules. X10Switch is written in Ruby on Rails and uses JQuery Mobile to make it available on most mobile platforms. [more inside]
CoreData is easier than you think when you use RubyMotion
Episode 5 of MotionInMotion is out, and it’s all about how easy working with CoreData is when you use RubyMotion, CDQ, and ruby-xcdm.
Is Rubinius 2.2.3 production ready ?
Look like everyone forgets about Rubinius that sports for some time a LLVM-based JIT, native threads, low-pause generational garbage collector and almost perfect support of C extensions. full article
Ruby: How to iterate "the Right Way"
If you have written a for loop in the last year, you’re doing it wrong.
Let’s see how we can leverage the collection methods that come built-in with Ruby.
Torquebox deployment with capistrano 3
Just released a new gem capistrano-torquebox for deploying torquebox with capistrano 3.
Parse hashes with hash strategies gem.
I’ve just released first version of my new gem called parsable_hash. It eases the way of parsing incoming hashes to object with given strategies. [more inside]
View Models – add an R to your Rails MVC
Do your Rails 4 models feel lonely and bloated with representation? And helpers won’t help? Add view_models to your project!
Screencast: Caching an API
I just freed up another episode from the RubyTapas archives. This one talks about building a caching layer over an HTTP API, and touches on testing with WebMock as well.
Sneakers: a high performance background processing framework for Ruby
Sneakers is a high performance background processing framework for Ruby based on RabbitMQ. It has a hybrid processing model akin to Puma+Unicorn combined. It’s being used in production for I/O intensive, as well as CPU intensive workloads, and it maxes all cores.
Integrating acts_as_taggable with Jquery Token Input
I wrote an article which’ll really help you if you want to use acts_as_taggable and at the same time you would add Jquery Token Input.
New version of the Sadie data server
I just released version 0.1.6 of the Sadie gem. [more inside]
Build iOS/OSX apps together with others in the RubyMotion community!
I’m trying to organise an initiative where a bunch of members from the RubyMotion community get together and build some iOS and OSX apps as a group. I’ve written a blog post to detail what I’m talking about: Building Apps as a Community
Mobility Solutions Based On Ruby on Rails Are Increasingly Infected By Malware
A critical vulnerability in the Ruby on rails framework that was patched up last year is still eyed on by hackers who are trying to infect unpatched web servers. ruby on rails web applications based on Ruby programming language is a web app framework that helps in easy deployment of Web 2.0 websites.
RubyMotion Community Members
I wrote a quick blog post to mention some of the big names in the RubyMotion community! If you’re into RubyMotion, you need to be following these guys on Twitter. http://blog.motioninmotion.tv/community-members
Letsrate Rails4 Rating Gem
I just updated letsrate rating gem for Rails4 implementation and minor bugfixes.
Beginner guides and tips for learning Chef
Chef will help you provision and manage your servers. This article includes high quality learning resources and provides a few useful tips. [more inside]
Create Powerful Applications with Enhanced Features of Ruby On Rails 3.2
The latest ruby on rails 3.2 release is an open source framework that is optimized for the developer’s ease of use and sustainable productivity. This powerful and simple web development framework has opened up new means to create web applications that emphasizes on simplicity, less codes, less configuration data, integrated testing, new routing engine, faster development mode, tagged logging and etc. This has enabled developers to create powerful applications to be produced in a matter of days.
Using Variant with Mobivious to render device specific views
I just wrote a blog post on using Variant + Mobvious to render views according to the type of device.
New RubyMotion Screencasts - MotionInMotion
I just launched MotionInMotion a few days ago. RubyMotion screencasts so you can write awesome iOS and OSX apps with Ruby! Use the coupon LAUNCH20 before 06/01/2014 to get 20% off your subscription forever!
Capistrano 3 version of deploying one or several Rails apps to a VPS
Following the popularity of the previous post on using Capistrano 2 to deploy one or more apps to a VPS, several people have asked about doing the same with Capistrano 3. So here’s an updated Capistrano 3 version, including sample code.
Lotus: Ruby full stack web framework
I’m pleased to announce Lotus: the Open Source project I’ve conceived, hacked and built during the last year. [more inside]
jubilee 1.1.0rc2 released
jubilee is a rack web server built upon vert.x for JRuby, it’s screamingly fast, while providing the best features of Vert.x such as Event bus, Shared data and Clustering. Checkout the demo application to see what it can do.