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Don't let your Heroku apps fail silently
@logentries, We’ve put together a blog post on how to get automatic notifications on Heroku error codes, so that you find your problems before your users do. Check it out, and feel free to leave any relevant feedback, good / bad / indifferent :)
High Quality and Affordable Shared Hosting for Rails Apps: WebFaction
I just finished writing a new post about WebFaction. They are a great service, and you can read my review of it here.
Oauth2 server implementation - going to the next level using engines
Time ago I’ve created a rest oauth2 server implementation. It’s covered with testing but I’ve no time to work on it for now. I write here to search for people who wants to take the code I’ve done and create an engine.
Themes for Rails With Assets Pipeline Support
I wrote an article about Themes for Rails With Assets Pipeline Support. This was a long overdue feature, so if your are using the themes_for_rails gem, I encourage you to read it.
Easily split URIs
UniformResourceIdentifier splits your full URIs without the hassle of validation. Sticks to RFC 3986 as closely as possible. (client-side counter part)
Let's write a gem: Part 1
I’ve just posted Let’s write a gem: Part 1 to rakeroutes.com. The first of a two part series on how to write a Ruby gem.
Nezumi 2 for Heroku
I just launched Nezumi 2, an iPhone app to manage your Heroku apps. It adds Cedar support, multiple accounts, and more.
A Unix Shell in Ruby - Part 2
I just published the second article in a series where I implement a Unix shell in pure Ruby code. This time it covers builtin commands.
Command Line Reporter 3.1 Released
The latest version of Command Line Reporter now allows you to capture output as a single string. The gem is available on rubygems.org with source on github. For those not familiar with Command Line Reporter, the gem provides a ruby DSL for writing ascii reports with built in features like progress reporting and table formatting. It is very handy for system level and data reporting scripts.
Introduction to Messaging Systems for Rubyists
A short introduction to messaging and how it can help us to manage complexity and tackle performance related problems. I use RabbitMQ to show a few basic messaging patterns that can be used in a lot of Rails applications.
humongous - A standalone MongoDB Browser (Ruby Based)
Hi There, [more inside]
Run 1 large test file split into multiple processes - parallel_split_test
With parallel_split_test you can run chunks of one large test file in parallel processes, utilizing those lazy extra cores.
mocktra = webmock + sinatra
mocktra is a webmock DSL using sinatra. You can define web stub using sinatra. webmock is awesome!
jquery-ui-rails released
Have you ever headed to the jQuery UI download page, selected which jQuery UI components to include in your custom build, and dumped a bunch of .js, .css, and .png files in your app? That shouldn’t be necessary – Rails has an asset pipeline! Hence, jquery-ui-rails, released today.
VersionSwitcher 0.6.0 - a RVM like tool for Ruby/Python/Node.js and so on
VersionSwitcher 0.6.0 released. VersionSwitcher is a RVM like tool for programming languages. It switches versions of Ruby, Python, Node.js, Perl, Lua, and so on very easily. And it also provides installer for these languages. Check out VersionSwitcher web site.
Digging into EngineYard Logs
Check out our blog post on digging into EngineYard logs and some insight as to why they may be of interest for your rails apps, and what exactly you can do with them to improve your apps.
JSLint-V8 1.1 released
JSLint-V8 is a gem that makes it easy to set up and run JSHint against a large set of JavaScript files using either an executable ruby script or a configurable Rake task - making it ideal for use in CI environments. It runs on TheRubyRacer (V8 Interpreter) so it runs very very fast. [more inside]
Active Admin 0.4.1 Released
We just launched Active Admin 0.4.1. For a rundown of some of the new and exciting features checkout the Active Admin 0.4.1 blog post or checkout the CHANGELOG.
ActionPresenter - use Presenter pattent without changing controllers.
I just launched action_presenter. Presenter gem that controllers aren’t aware of. Version 1.0.1 is heavy based on Ryan Bates’s ‘Presenter from Scratch’. Have fun using it ;)
I just launched Coffee Taster: an easy C...
I just launched Coffee Taster: an easy CoffeeScript development environment for Ruby developers.
Surus - PostgreSQL Acceleration for ActiveRecord
Surus accelerates ActiveRecord with PostgreSQL specific types and functionality. It enables indexed searching of serialized arrays and hashes. It also can control PostgreSQL synchronous commit behavior. By relaxing PostgreSQL’s durability guarantee, transaction commit rate can be increased by 50% or more. Check it out at Github.
New recommended Ruby version: Ruby 1.9.3-p125 is released
Ruby 1.9.3-p125 is released, the new recommended Ruby version, available via rvm. [more inside]