6 Ways to get More Bang for your Heroku Buck While Making Your Rails Site Super Snappy

Over the years we’ve used a number of techniques to get the most out of our Heroku apps without having to fork out a fortune for lots of extra dynos. I’ve just written up our 6 ways to get more from Heroku which also make your Rails app super snappy for your user.

Jruby Mahout: New Gem for Machine Learning

I just pushed the first public version of Jruby Mahout gem. [more inside]

Using Authority when you don't have a model

Authority provides a sensible, ORM-neutral way to authorize actions on your Rails models. [more inside]

rack-protection 1.3.0

I just released rack-protection 1.3.0. Please upgrade your apps.

Rate limit your Rails app using Doorkeeper and Redis

I just launched the Redis Throttle gem. This is fork of the Rack Throttle middleware that provides logic for rate-limiting incoming HTTP requests to Rack applications using Redis. This gem was designed to experiment rate limit with Rails 3.x and Doorkeeper.

Test CLI calls to remote APIs

communist treats your command line app as black box and provides simple cucumber steps to described expected responses. Check it out and let us know what you think?

Automatic reloading in Rails console

Enable automatic reloading in the Rails console so every statement is evaluated using the latest code.

Source Maps with Chrome Canary and Rails

I was having problem piecing together all the steps to enabling source maps in Canary. I really wanted to get it working with the Rails, SASS and the Asset Pipeline. Eventually I got things working, this is what I did.

Mutli-platform installation instructions for MRI, JRuby and Rubinius

Recently wrote copy/pastable installation instructions for MRI, JRuby and Rubinius on Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora and OS X.

Using quick shell aliases

Temporary shell aliases are a pretty obvious idea, but do you remember to make them when you need them?

7 steps to continuous deployment

Releasing new parts of your software daily has so many advantages, that you can’t afford to refrain from it: * making releases a breeze * faster development * immediate user feedback * happy developers [more inside]

Roundtrip: simple tracking and metrics for your business processes in real-time

I just pushed Roundtrip, a Redis, Sinatra and Graphite based business process tracking and metrics service. You can also see how it works in this blog post.

Join the Google+ Ruby Community!

Google+ just released communities so let’s build one around Ruby.

The One Thing You Need To Know About Bang Methods

The right tools for the job - efficient web application development

We from @Net_Engine want to know what tools you’ve been using to help you on daily tasks. [more inside]

Avoid duplicate content in your Rails app

If you can access pages of your site like this mysite.com/products/ or mysite.com/products, then you have duplicate content and Google does not like that. [more inside]

Smart selection with VIM

Annoyed using vi”/vi’/vi(? Use this.

Hash#fetch default value gotcha

I wrote a tiny blog post about Hash#fetch default value gotcha.

Using Pen & Paper. Feature Sketches.

How many times have you tried to refactor out a responsibility from a god class? How many times have you succeeded? It’s hard. Primarily, because of the limitations of the brain. We cannot keep more than 3-4 things in our working memory. This means that understanding the ways in which 30 methods interact with each other is extremely difficult. And that’s when feature sketches can come in handy. Read more…

Add metadata to Minitest specs similar to RSpec

Just released minispec-metadata gem.