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Using Jenkins with RVM and Rails
I just published an article on using Jenkins with RVM and Rails. It also includes details on using RSpec and Cucumber HTML formatters and serving up the output in Jenkins, instead of digging through the console output
gem Emailvision
Whether you are a ruby user or a rails user, this gem is definitely for you if you work with Emailvision. Website. Emailvision is an email marketing platform where you can manage your campaigns, event emails (birthday, subscriptions, …), and even transactional emails (password forgotten and so on)
postbin v0.1.0
I just released the initial version of PostBin (still a little rough round the edges). [more inside]
resque-retry v0.2.1
I’ve just released v0.2.1 of resque-retry. Please see the HISTORY.md file for details about what’s changed. Big thanks to the users of resque-retry, they are the people who made this release possible with their pull requests and bug fixes! Well done!
Github flavored markdown in your YARD documentation
Are use getting used to the Github flavored Markdown and would like to use it in your generated YARD documentation? Find out how you can do it in two easy steps!
Build your own Vagrant box ready to use with chef-solo using Veewee
I released the first screencast in NepalonRails on How to build your own Vagrant box ready to use with chef-solo using Veewee. The goal is to cut the bandwidth to download the box everytime and show you how to build your own box with bells and whistles.
Faye 0.7: new event APIs and an open WebSocket stack
The latest release of Faye adds a few new event hooks, and ships with a stand-alone WebSocket client/server implementation that makes adding WebSockets to any Rack app dead simple.
Unobtrusive object deletion in Rails, the easy way
Out of the box, Rails requires a HTTP DELETE request to process object deletion, but this requires JavaScript or a form, which isn’t ideal. A few simple changes can improve this situation, for the concise solution continue reading unobtrusive object deletion in Rails…
rack_mailer - A form mailer for any rack compatible webapp
rack_mailer provide a simple drop-in ability to send data posted to a form to an e-mail address with minimal configuration. Can send an auto-responder, provide basic spam protection and built on the mail gem.
sendgrowl (sendmail via Growl)
sendgrowl is a simple Bash script for Mac OS X which redirects sendmail to Growl. Messages piped to the sendmail binary are displayed as Growl notifications instead and - when clicked - the entire message is opened in a Quick Look preview window. Quite useful for Cron output and - to some degree - for developing Rails apps which send mails.
Cut & Polish: A Guide to Crafting Gems
As part of the RubyC conference in Kyiv, I spoke about how to build and publish gems, along with best practices for doing so. I focused on building gems from scratch - not via Jeweler, Hoe, etc - so people can understand every part of the puzzle. Both the video recording and slides are available via my blog, should this take your fancy.
Acceptance Testing with Responsive Layouts
How to resize the browser window for your Capybara/Selenium tests if your website has a responsive layout: Acceptance Testing with Responsive Layouts.
Amazon Cloudfront CDN on Rails
A concise guide on how to setup your Rails app with Amazon’s CloudFront CDN - it’s a great way to provide better front-end performance and with the asset pipeline, it’s really not that difficult to implement!
Literate programming with Github and Markdown
As a developer using Github, we often find ourselves browsing other people’s code. Sometimes it’s out of curiosity, sometimes it’s because we need to make a maintenance task, but in either case, it’s something valuable because peer review is a fantastic way to gain experience. more
Improving University Course "Agile Development with Ruby" Part I
Few years ago I started delivering course Agile Development with Ruby at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Vilnius University . I delivered and tuned this course for 4 semesters so far, but I think there are still unsolved issues and plenty space for improvements, so I’ll write problems I faced teaching students in this series of posts and I would like get your feedback.
Take a Swing at Ruby Golf
Darran Jones has started a Ruby Golf competition over at Rubysource. Head over and try to make par…the winner of each hole gets a Sitepoint book.
Pakyow 0.7.0
We’re proud to announce Pakyow 0.7.0, available now. This release includes several bug fixes, new features (hooks, pakyow-mailer, and more) as well as significant performance improvements. Detailed release notes can be found here.
snowday just released
I just released snowday, a RSpec formatter to make you feel all warm inside. Like hot chocolate.
RubyLearning.org Seeking Help and Suggestions For New Course
RubyLearning.org is planning a free, online course on topics that hopefully will help those that have some knowledge of Ruby programming to get started with web programming - call it “Intermediate Ruby Programming”. This does not cover Ruby on Rails. [more inside]
rails_best_practices 1.4.0 released
I just launched rails_best_practices 1.4.0, it adds RemoveUnusedMethodsInControllersCheck, check out the changelogs here.
Different bundler versions in multiple Gemfiles -> matching_bundle
matching_bundle looks into your Gemfile and picks the correct bundler version. (pass any argument as you would pass to bundle, e.g. install, update, …) gem install matching_bundle && cd project && matching_bundle