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How to render, upload and download large files on heroku with s3
it’s my new blog post,
ReactiveCocoa & RubyMotion: The Setup
Prepare to use ReactiveCocoa to achieve reduced state and complexity in your RubyMotion iOS development project. Here’s how.
The Complexities of Monitoring Queue Depth
A quick article that explores monitoring complexity by looking at a single metric: background queue depth.
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
My talk at RedDotRubyConf 2013: building asynchronous apis
My talk at RedDotRubyConf 2013: building asynchronous apis
New gem: hash_assertions - assert required keys, assert keys with values
I just launched hash_assertions - assert required keys, assert keys with values. Simple but neat!
Jenkins behind Apache with HTTPS – Proxy pass with SSL
If you want to know how to proxy pass Jenkins with Apache and add a SSL to it all, you should read this post.
Convert flat lists to trees
new gem 4FUN flat2tree (gem) with example usage https://github.com/mpapis/home_dotfiles/blob/master/bin/lsmod_tree
RELS Part 3: User Authentication with Ruby on Rails, RSpec and Capybara
I just launched a new tutorial about User Authentication with Ruby on Rails, RSpec and Capybara
Running Changed Tests
I just posted a new blog post showing how to use git together with rspec/minitest to run only the new and changed tests for a feature branch.
Nobody understands the GIL, Part 2
In this follow up, I actually take you down into MRI to see how the GIL is implemented, and what effect it has on your code. Read it here and look for part 3 to wrap things up next week.
XmlHasher - Fast XML to Ruby Hash converter
Fast(est) XML to Hash parser. [more inside]
FlexYear - natural language year range parser gem
Just take a year range like “1980s”, “mid-70s”, “1975-76” and turn it into a high and low year. Very useful when we’re trying to determine when a guitar was made for reverb.com and want to let users be flexible with what they enter. [more inside]
Wiselinks standalone
Wiselinks, popular alternative to Turbolinks and Pjax, got new version today. [more inside]
Forget Resque Boilerplate: Focus on your Code
I love Resque, but hate defining classes and naming queues. I wrote the resque_def gem to define classes for you, so you can get more done with less code.
Version 1.0 of cql-rb, a new Ruby driver for Cassandra, has been released
I have just released version 1.0 of a new Ruby driver for Cassandra cql-rb. It’s built to take full advantage of the new native protocol introduced in Cassandra 1.2, and supports prepared statements, authentication and request pipelining. Check out the code and examples on GitHub, or read a blog post about the release.
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Ruby and module_function
Do you know module_function? If not, it’s time to learn it!
Building Awesome Rails APIs: Part 1
We’re talking about some API tips and best practices over at the Collective Idea blog.
Puppet manifests made easy...
This is the first public release of the puppet_generator-gem. [more inside]