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Connecting rails project with multiple databases.
I just posted this article in my blog
Last chance to sponsor your cat for a good cause ^_^
Earlier this year we announced a sponsorship program for Burlington Ruby Conference where your cat (or dog, or guinea pig) can be a sponsor. 25% of the proceeds go toward our local humane society, the other 75% will go toward conference scholarships for women. As an incentive, we are offering two sponsorship tiers: As a “Middleclass Cat” your pet will be featured on our website, and as an “Aristocat” they will also be featured on the speaker videos. In order to get the donations and scholarship program wrapped up ahead of the conference, we will be closing the sponsorship form at the end of June. For details visit http://burlingtonruby.com/cat.html
Ruby implementation of Melkman's algorithm with animation
Melkman’s algorithm comes to the rescue when you need to find convex hull of a simple polygonal chain. Checkout blog post or Github repo.
Omnibus Tutorial: Package a standalone Ruby gem
Now, thanks to Omnibus, there’s an easy way to distribute your Ruby gems as standalone, full-stack programs. This means folks without Ruby can have as smooth of an experience with your hip new gem as a hardened Rubyist.
Rails 4: add_reference for cleaner foreign key migrations
I just blogged about it here.
The pesky problem of freezing thin servers
I’ve spent two days debugging this problem and would have never expected the bug to originate from a standard library. Read all about the pesky problem of freezing thin servers.
I have wrote a blogpost for Must Have Ge...
I have wrote a blogpost for Must Have Gems for Development Machine in Ruby on Rails that helps to make things faster or sometimes bring simplicity to the development process
Come talk at BohConf 2013, or just come--Baltimore, 7-19
Hey, we’re holding BohConf 2013 in Baltimore on July 19th. Submit a talk for BohConf, check out BohConf Ignite on the 18th, or just come get your NerdyBoh on. Bonus: BohConf is running the same weekend as ArtScape, a gigantic art festival in Baltimore. Details on submitting a talk or buying an (affordable) ticket here.
How we saved over $3.5k a year for our newly launched rails app
We just launched follower.io and talked about how we saved $3.5k a year on external services we needed to launch our rails app.
Learn More About India’s Exciting RubyConfIndia 2013
Prakash Murthy talks about India’s only Ruby conference scheduled for 22 and 23 June 2013. He is hoping to make more friends, learn some new stuff, make some impact, and have a lot of fun at this conference.
Exception Notification v4.0.0.rc1 has just been released!
Do a gem install exception_notification –pre to try it out and give feedback. Final version coming out next week. Lots of features added, see changelog for more details
Nginx treasures to be used with Rails application
From DevOps point of view some functionality should be moved outside an application backe-end, say to front-end layer to just make things easier. I’d like to share simple solutions we use on production. [more inside]
Slide Show (S9) 2.0.0 Update - Command Suite Added - build, install, ls, new, etc.
What’s new? The slideshow gem now sports a git or gem like command suite. For example, to install the impress.js presentation pack issue $ slideshow install impress.js or to
list all installed template packs issue $ slideshow list or $ slideshow ls to get a quick starter sample issue $ slideshow new and finally to build your slideshow issue $ slideshow build welcome.text More info. Cheers.
Does the GIL Make Your Ruby Code Thread-Safe?
This is an important question for anyone using multiple threads on MRI. In the last part of my series on the GIL, I try to dispel this common misconception. Find out for yourself.
ReactiveCocoa & RubyMotion: The Setup
Prepare to use ReactiveCocoa to achieve reduced state and complexity in your RubyMotion iOS development project. Here’s how.
Do you know how to benchmark your Ruby code?
Do you know how to benchmark your Ruby code? Learn from Jesse Storimer in this guest blog post on RubyLearning.
Betterspecs Improved
We are happy to announce the new russian and korean translation of betterspecs, a project that tries to fill this gap of using rspec by collecting most of the “best practices” a developer should know when testing a ruby or rails apps. [more inside]
Designing code with RSpec
Stubbing in RSpec lets you write the code you wish you had. Learn how to design your code before you implement it in this screencast! [more inside]
Cleanup Rails' views with decorators
Big rails applications can be hard to maintain. In particular, logic in views can be a pain. Hopefully, there is a solution: using decorators.
RailsConf, a 1.5 Million Dollar Pep Rally
Just how strong is the Rails community? Crunched some numbers from RailsConf to figure this out.
Duck types in rails
Just wrote few things about Duck typing in rails on real example All About Duck Types feel free to ask whatever you want, about article off course you pervert! :D