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Using Pen & Paper. CRC Cards.
Programmers tend to use software to solve absolutely all problems. Need to take notes? Here is an application for taking notes. Brainstorming? All sorts of mind mappers are available for you. Even though in most cases it makes perfect sense, sometimes I find that a piece of paper and a pen are better tools for the job. I’d like to talk about one of the most interesting and, unfortunately, underused tools for brainstorming: CRC cards. Read more…
Magma Rails 2013
We just launched <a href=”http://www.magmarails.com/?utm_source=rubyflow&utm_medium=rubyflow&utm_campaign=launchdate” target”_blank”>Magma Rails 2013</a> dates. Read more
Simple App Stats with StatBoard
I made a simple gem for displaying app usage stats.
Running a High Volume Rails app on Heroku
In 3 easy steps you can setup a rails app on Heroku that can easily handle 200 requests per second and 100 concurrent connections, for free. Check out how!
Your Objects, the Unix Way — Applying the Unix Philosophy to Object-Oriented Design
I just posted the latest article on the Code Climate blog. It’s written by John Pignata, and discusses the similarities between Unix design and good OOP (with a Ruby example).
turntabler: An evented Turntable.FM API
turntabler is an evented, fiber-aware, fully-implemented API for Turntable.FM. Features include untangled callbacks, interactive debugging, detailed documentation, and more all wrapped up in a clean, consistent, object-oriented API.
Adding borders to images from your Ruby code
This blog post explains how to easily add various kinds of borders to images using Cloudinary’s cloud-based image transformations. It also demos some useful chained transformations for quickly achieving interesting effects. The post includes sample code in Ruby on Rails.
Using RABL to build Sinatra and Rails APIs
As RABL has been growing in popularity, I have noticed a lot of confusions and misunderstandings about best practices and how RABL works. To help remedy that, I have put together three guides: Understanding RABL, Managing complex logic, and generating flexible responses. In addition, if you are using RABL successfully, please add yourself to People using RABL and let me know if there’s any other guides you would find helpful.
Beautifully Simple Blogging with a Rails Engine
I just released version 0.6 of the blog engine called Almanac that can be used in Ruby on Rails projects. It’s lightweight, elegant and includes some geeky goodies like Markdown for all inputs and simple social network integration.
Git database branches
We love Git. At Railsonfire we are currently working on a new version of our platform with lots of new features. For every feature we create a separate Git branch and once it’s done we integrate the feature into the main application. This keeps us from having half-baked features spoiling our service. Read more
Real life concurrency in Go
Concurrency is a hot topic in the Ruby community, so taking a look at how other languages/communities approach the challenge can be very valuable. This is exactly what I did in this blog post showing how to write concurrent code in Go.
Upgrading to Rails 4 eBook (beta)
I have released the first beta version of Upgrading to Rails 4. Rails 4 is not yet released, but might be soon. There are also certain features you can start using today in Rails 3.2 that have been extracted as gems. Read more
Portable Ruby Bit-Twiddling with #unpack()
Ruby code using strings to work with byte arrays may need to be updated in order to work with Ruby 1.9. Here’s a way to do it that retains compatibility with Ruby 1.8.
gem 'seo_params' - easy way to retrieve main SEO parameters
I just launched v.0.0.3 gem ‘seo_params’. It can be used to determine the main SEO parameters.
New mousetrap-rails version
I just released new mousetrap-rails version — 0.0.7.
How to write facemash in ruby
I just wrote all about Ruby, Facemash and the Elo rating system. It’s a small post which takes a little bit of a test driven approach to re-creating the Elo rating system in Ruby. It’s a nice little article, you should go read it.
Rapidly Build Distributed Applications with ITTIA DB and Qt
ITTIA DB SQL is available for the Qt application and UI development framework from Digia. This enhances cross-platform development and encourages best practices for concurrent processing of data. It also allows developers to access relational embedded data management software, offering a unique competitive edge with such features as replication, data distribution, reliable concurrency and logging.
New command line feed for rubygems.org RubyGemFeed
With rubygemfeed you can simply type rubygemfeed at the command line to see what’s new on rubygems.org. You may also query whatever gem’s you’re interested in.
3 LIVE sessions already announced for La Conf 2013 in Paris, France
These live sessions will be performed right in front of us at La Conf - an unusual conference for Rubyists : Jeremy McAnally will be developing a new feature and releasing it to Github.com, Geoffrey Grosenbach will be performing a Peepcode “Play by Play” and Jon Leighton will be testing and merging pull requests for Rails. All live, only in Paris!
Asynchronous Airbrake delivery – avoiding latency in application response time
TL;DR Update airbrake-gem to last version and enable asynchronous delivery option to avoid latency in application response time. Read more
Unicode Whitespace Shenigans in Ruby
It seems that sometimes.. the split is not enough! (Yes, Bond theme - 100% cheese.) If you’ve got a string that just won’t split, there might literally be more to it than meets the eye. I use this as a springboard to launch into some Ruby whitespace shenanigans! Enjoy.
Define your own Number Base with basecustom.
A new gem empowers you to define numeric bases by any set of character(s). Here’s a usage video for basecustom Ruby Gem BaseCustom: Define your own numeric bases This allows for an infinite amount of base counting systems. Fun with ranges, music, and encryption. You decide.
A wafer-thin Ruby wrapper for accessing Nokia's Here Maps API.
A wafer-thin Ruby wrapper for accessing Nokia’s Here Maps Places API.
Rails 4.0 Roundup
A list of useful resources to know more about the upcoming Rails 4.0