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a gem for dynamically generate nested form fields
I just launched dynamic_fields, a simple rails engine to dynamically generate nested form fields.
master slave replication in rails
I just created a new post master slave replication in rails to introduce maser slave replication, how to use in rails, and the solution to replication lag.
Introduction to Ruby code optimization
We just published an introduction to ruby code optimization and associated tools on our blog. Feedback and comments are welcome.
health_inspector - Inspect your chef repo and chef server
If you use Chef you may find you aren’t sure if your cookbooks are in sync with what is on the server. Especially if your cookbooks are individual git repos. I just created this gem to help out.
Availability of ITTIA DB SQL on IAR Embedded Workbench(R)
Embedded developers can now use ITTIA DB SQL in combination to IAR Embedded Workbench(R) to leverage enterprise data management features with a powerful compiler and a debugging tool suite. This offering includes development interoperability and low-cost maintainability, as both technologies are cross-platform and support various operating systems and processor architectures.
Ruby Lugdunum 2012 - Ruby Conf in Lyon, France
Ruby Lugdunum (a.k.a Rulu) will be back on June 22 - 23 in Lyon, France. Rulu 2012 is a two-day single-track conference on Ruby featuring great talks, awesome food and time to hack together! CFPs are open and early bird tickets will be on sale on Tuesday! More infos on Rulu.eu.
Diffbench tool: runs benchmark code before and after a patch
Diffbench is a tool I end up during many performance patches to Rails It runs a same benchmark code before and after applying a patch. [more inside]
Ruby On REST 5: Learn Hypermedia By Making Fruit Salad
Discussing the concept of REST and hypermedia we learn what is a hypermedia type, why HAL+JSON makes our life easier and how to fix a yummy fruit salad.
tmux for rails developers
I just published some thoughts about tmux for rails developers.
YAML(YAML Ain’t a Markup Language)
A cheatsheet on YAML.
Git presenter v0.2.1 released
I just released Git Presenter v0.2.1 which includes adding bash commands to the presentation and execute them during the presentation. [more inside]
bookshop releases 0.1.0 - an HTML to PDF/(e)books toolchain framework
I just launched version 0.1.0 of bookshop. Bookshop is a book publishing framework for publishers, editors, and coders in today’s publishing industry. bookshop provides a framework for developing books using well-known web languages like HTML/CSS.
Visualize a set of Graphs using the Neography Gem
Build a matrix of Hiveplots using Neo4j, Gremlin and D3.js
When Ruby Meets Java The Power Of Torquebox
Slides from @arunagw and rockyj.in ’s talk from Ruby Conf India 2012. Slides thanks :-)
The Current State of Ruby concurrency
I’m currently in a project using Websockets and I wanted to share my thoughts about the current state of Ruby concurrency to help the Ruby community going in the right way.
Fifteen of my best Ruby articles are now freely available
When I started writing professionally, I made a promise to myself to eventually release all my content for free. In keeping with that promise, I’ve decided to share Practicing Ruby’s second volume with the Ruby community. [more inside]
Tabs Rails helper for Twitter Bootstrap
Update to the twitter-bootstrap-components-helper micro-gem. It now does tabs as well as accordions. Read about it here
cameraplus - a Ruby wrapper around the Camera+ iPhone app Web Sharing API
You might have heard about the recent release of the Camera+ iPhone app API, but they also released a Web Sharing API. I’ve just released the cameraplus gem which provides a simple wrapper to easily use the Camera+ Web Sharing API in your own project. The documentation can be found on Github.
bullet 2.3.0 released
bullet is a gem to help you increase your application’s performance by reducing the number of sql requests it makes. bullet 2.3.0 got 10% performance improved for activerecord 3.0.12, it works much faster, bullet for ar 3.1.4 is 48% faster than for ar 3.0.12, and for ar 3.2.2 is 40% faster than for ar 3.0.12, check out the changelog here.
What happens when DDD meets Lean approach...
I just published my new blog post, this time more ruby related. It’s about my hacker’s thoughts on Lean Startup, DDD and DCI. I appreciate any feedback!
switch_user 0.7.0 released
It has been a long time coming, but switch_user 0.7.0 finally supports restful_authentication. switch_user gem provides a convenient way to switch current user that speeds up your development and reproduce user specified error on production.
xml-motor ~ What? Why? How?
Blog Entry on What is xml-motor? Why and How should you use it? http://justfewtuts.blogspot.in/2012/03/xml-motor-what-it-is-how-why-should-you.html. Or, if you get bored of reading a blog, get it in a less boring outlook at this presentation pdf @speakerdeck.