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But What's Going On Under The Hood?
I just wrote a new post entitled But What’s Going On Under The Hood? which looks at the implementation details of the Ruby and the Rails gems we built for integrating your Rails application into the FluidFeatures service. Please leave a comment or ping me at @philwhln with feedback!
Simple object caching in Rails
My cache_lookup gem, for caching, and expiring correctly, a single object in a Rails application. Read about the cache_lookup gem
Collection+JSON Support In Roar!
Roar, a REST framework gem, now comes with support for rendering and parsing the Collection+JSON format. Here’s a litte introduction to Collection+JSON and how it works in roar.
watch ruby/rails conferences' videos and slides on your iphone/ipad
There are many ruby / rails conferences every year, like RubyConf, RailsConf and JRubyConf, a lot of great sessions. I built an ios app named ConferencesBox which collects ruby and rails conferences’ videos and slides, so that you can watch them on your iphone or ipad, try it now.
Looking for Viewpoint for EWS input
I am currently re-writing the Viewpoint for Exchange Web Services gem and was hoping to get some use-cases from people so I know better how to drive the features. If you use the gem I would appreciate your input over here. Especially if you have any stories of scaling with it. Many Thanks!.
OmniAuth + Google Apps authentication
Getting OmniAuth + Google Apps working properly together isn’t that hard as long as you’re are of two key things. To help you waste time like I did, here is quick run through guide to get you up and running.
One Month of Coderwall Protips
I’ve shared a Coderwall protip each workday in January and wrote a blog post about it. [more inside]
2013 Ruby on Rails Reading List
I just wrote a f reading list of learning Ruby on Rails. check it out.
Announcing the etag_for Gem for better etag creation
Following on from my previous post about how to generate good etag values for your resources, I put together a gem that helps you include the template code that is part of the HTML representation of your resource. Read about the etag_for gem
How to use ETags in a Rails app
How do you create a good ETAG in Rails that represents the resource in a way that allows for changes to break the cache. Read the post at the CRAZ8 Blog
High Performance Networking in Google Chrome
Chrome gets faster as you use it. Chrome learns the topology of the web, browsing patterns, and critical resources on every page to optimize your browsing! A look under the hood of how it all comes together…
How I set up new Rails applications
How I set up new Rails applications is the start of a series on my favorite Rails development patterns.
How to create a tag cloud that uses colour to represent popularity (instead of font size)
Step by step recipe for creating a tinted tag cloud by Ben Woodward. Ingredients; Compass, acts-as-taggable-on + glue. [more inside]
New interactive problems at RubyMonk: Learn Ruby through gentle interactive tutorials
RubyMonk is an online Ruby training course that teaches you Ruby in the browser through interactive consoles. We recently released a new set of interesting problems in the The Ruby Primer. If you are a beginning/intermediate Ruby programmer, you should find them a fun way to improve your Ruby programming skills! [more inside]
New post: "Building a PaaS in Ruby"
I just wrote a new blog post, “Building a PaaS in Ruby” in which I give an overview of how Ruby is used within a Stackato PaaS cluster. [more inside]
Do you know how to setup Paypal Payflow in Rails?
Learn how to setup a PayPal Payflow payment gateway for a Rails application using the four step process.
Announcing Rails Assistant 1.0.0 - Rails Development Tool
Rails Assistant is a Rails development tool for Mac OS X (10.7+). It helps with Project Management, Task Automation and Grouped Logging. [more inside]
Journey Into Rails Routing -- an Under the Hood Look at How Routing Works
routing in Rails is awesome. But how does it work. How does it find the right routing definition for the given url. [more inside]
EuRuKo 2013 is getting real!
EuRuKo 2013 is getting real! Check out the new website, the dates and the awesome venue. Follow us on twitter or the website for updates on sponsor packages, call for presentations, keynote speakers, early bird tickets, the people behind it and our progress in general!
gem install queryable_array
Provides a simplified DSL allowing arrays of objects to be searched by their attributes
How to get what you need with Nokogiri
This week’s post in Crowd Interactive’s tech blog [more inside]
How to build your own Facebook Graph Search with the Treetop Gem, Cypher and Neo4j
Demo Sinatra application and source code available for building your own facebook graph search.
Cloudster - the fastest way to provision your AWS stack
I had to provision a lot of AWS cloud environments programmatically, and I wrote the gem called Cloudster which helped me do it.
Testing controllers outside of a Rails application with RSpec
I wrote an article on how to test controllers outside of a Rails app with RSpec.