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JRubyConf. Back in Europe – Berlin, 14 - 15 August
Ruby Berlin e.V. and the JRuby team are thrilled to announce the second European Edition of JRubyConf. JRubyConf will feature as part of eurucamp week, taking place in Germany’s capital City from 10 - 18 August. [more inside]
Release: Sponges, daemons in a pool
When we build workers, we want them to be like an army of little spongebobs, always on the edge and ready to work. sponges helps you create this army of sponges, control them, and well… kill them at will too. Making them eager to work is now your job.
Fineuploader plugin for ajax uploads in Rails
I just released the new version of fileuploader-rails gem, that adds Fineuploader 3.4.1 to your asset pipeline. [more inside]
The No-nonsense Guide to Test Driven Development With Ember.js on Rails
Last week I published a no nonsense, no steps skipped guide to Getting Started with Ember.js on Rails. [more inside]
Ruby 2 - Module#prepend
Whilst the usefulness of most Ruby 2 features is pretty obvious, the uses of Module#prepend weren’t as instantly apparent to me. [more inside]
Secure Your Android Applications with ITTIA DB SQL
To overcome confidential data issues in mission-critical applications, the new release of ITTIA DB SQL provides security and authentication features that bring flexible data safety to Android developers of embedded systems and mobile devices, allowing them to achieve the greatest level of data security in embedded applications by encrypting both network communications and storage media.
GitMinutes: Schneems talks Workflow and Rails Issues
Listen in on an all new GitMinutes podcast as @schneems discusses his GIT workflow and experience with Rails issues
Ruby – Why U No Have Nested Exceptions?
Ruby doesn’t support nested exceptions, but the ability to rescue an exception, raise your own, but still retain the original one, can often be very handy.
Phusion Passenger 4.0 Release Candidate 6
The Phusion Passenger application server, version 4.0 RC 6, has been released.
Learning Rails (and Ruby)
Engine Yard’s resident PHP developer delves into learning Ruby. Check out his story <a href=https://blog.engineyard.com/2013/learning-rails-and-ruby>here</a>.
Old dependencies are your second biggest technical debt
Old dependencies are your second biggest technical debt
API with Ruby on Rails: useful tricks
I’ve just published a blog post about my experience of building API with Ruby on Rails.
Faster Rails 3 deployments to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Web applications deployments cannot be slow. After understanding how EB works, identifying bottlenecks, and caching things; I was able to reduce the time to deploy to near one minute. [more inside]
MiniTest Rails - MetaCasts.tv
In this episode we’ll learn how to install, configure and use MiniTest in a Rails application. I’ll also show you a few tips and tricks on how to improve the output formatter, set up Guard to automatically run the tests, and more. [more inside]
Barcelona Ruby Conference - They are coming...
Check out our hyper-realistic trailer!. Also, announcing the first ticket batch (with a brand new website)!
Steel City Ruby CFP Closes this Friday - April 12th
Steel City Ruby Conference’s speaker lineup is anchored by Jim Weirich, Konstantin Haase, Avdi Grimm, and Angela Harms, but the rest of the lineup will be filled by your talks through a CFP. The CFP closes this Friday, so submit a proposal now.
LevelUp 0.2.0 released
I released version 0.2.0 of LevelUp. New configuration options, task overriding and bug fixes.
beer.db JSON HTTP API Sample w/ Sinatra - GET /beer/guinness - Cheers, Prost
I have created a little JSON API service for the open beer database (that is, beer.db) using the Sinatra Ruby gem. For example, /brewery/brooklyn gets you all beers from the Brooklyn Brewing Co. in New York and /beer/guinness gets you a pint of Guinness (sorry no real irish stout, just the data in JSON ;-). See the JSON API start page or the service source code or the beer.db project page for more info. Cheers. Prost.
TheComments 1.0.0 released! Comments with threading for Rails 4
TheComments - comment functionality for your web app. Comments are polymorphic. Gem provide usable cache counters for User model and commentable objects. TheComments has simple, but powerfull AntiSpam system and spam traps instead Captcha. [more inside]
herbalizer translates HAML to ERB
Beta-release of a command-line tool to translate HAML templates to ERB. Not all features of HAML are supported yet, but it’s a start. Written in Haskell. Contributors welcome to improve and extend the code. herbalizer @ GitHub
Rails Apps Composer on Guard
Paavo Leinonen added Guard as an option for continuous testing when using Rails Apps Composer. He describes his development environment, explains why Guard is useful, and how the Rails Apps Composer gem saves time building applications. The blog post is titled Rails Apps Composer on Guard.
Using JavaScript to Rescue Legacy Rails Applications
Adding new functionality to a large legacy Rails application is often expensive, if possible. But what if instead of adding new behaviour to the Rails application we implemented it as a single-page application in JavaScript? In this article I will show a few useful techniques for doing that. Read more…
Code readability and Ruby
Do you want to watch a discussion/rant on code readability with a Ruby slant? Sure you do – it’s this week’s short video in the XI to Eye series.
Programming Principles introduced by the Eiffel programming language
Programming Principles introduced by the Eiffel programming language.