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Announcing Pakyow 0.8
I’m excited to announce the next major version of Pakyow (0.8). Read about the features and changes that will be included in this post.
Increasing Rails Performance With Database Indexes
I’ve written an article on Increasing Rails Performance With Database Indexes for rakeroutes.com. Check it out to see how quickly you can speed up your app.
bscott-ec2ssh
I just launched bscott-ec2ssh<a href=”https://rubygems.org/gems/bscott-ec2ssh</a> forked from EC2ssh gem with some modifications to build upon.
A Unix Shell in Ruby
I just published the first article in a series where I implement a Unix shell in pure Ruby code.
Ruby Rogues 042 - Producing Content with Peter Cooper
This week, the Ruby Rogues welcome a past Rogue back to discuss producing content beyond programming. From newsletters to podcasts, membership sites and video how-tos, Peter Cooper shares his insight on branching out.
rails console show_routes method for your .railsrc file
We upgraded a couple of our projects to Rails 3.2.0. [more inside]
Railsapi.com offline docs for Rails v 3.1.3 and 3.2.1...
If you like the railsapi.com documentation and are sad you can’t get the latest Rails docs from it, I’ve built them for offline use.
A gemified plugin with Rails 3.2, Rspec, Capybara, Spork, and Guard
It can be tricky to set up a new gemified Rails plugin (with the dummy application) to use Rspec and friends rather than the default test-unit. Here’s how I did it.
Easy image processing and hosting service for rails apps
Hey there Rubyists! [more inside]
RubyMine 4 is Out — Speed Up with Ruby and Rails IDE
RubyMine 4, the latest major release of the intelligent Ruby on Rails IDE from JetBrains, brings significant performance improvements, a brand new UI, improved CoffeeScript and SCSS/LESS editors, and many other features. Read more and download RubyMine 4.
Introducing Gemfury - It's Dropbox for Rubyists
We’ve just launched Gemfury: Private Gem Server cloud service. If you have packaged some private code into RubyGems, but have had problems deploying them to your hosts, Heroku, or other cloud platforms, I recommend you find out more about us.
ror_ecommerce 1.0.0 release!!!
I just released ror_ecommerce 1.0.0. I also gave a quick tutorial on how to setup ror_ecommerce on Heroku. Also take a look at the project on github. Enjoy Rails 3.2
The go command...
Thought, my recent blog post about new go command may be also interesting for the rubyists, check it out here.
Big Fat Rails - Creative Commons ebook/screencasts
Big Fat Rails is my latest project for learning Ruby on Rails. Any feedback on what you think would be valuable for a newbie to learn would be greatly appreciated.
Static analysis for your Ruby code with Pelusa
We just launched Pelusa, a static analysis tool for Ruby code, and also blogged about it!
Viewpoint-SPWS: A Ruby Sharepoint library.
I just pushed out version 0.5.0 of viewpoint-spws; a rewrite of the previously named viewpoint_spws library. It allows one to talk to Sharepoint through its web services. There is still a lot that needs to be done but the library allows for some basic List manipulation. Viewpoint-SPWS
Call for translations for devise-i18n
This project provides translations for the devise gem in various languages - many languages have missing translations so if you can contribute, please do so! [more inside]
Miso Adventures in Scaling: PostgreSQL, Scaling and Replication
A while ago Miso migrated the primary database for our Ruby applications from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Back then, we had published a post explaining PostgreSQL setup and tuning in detail. Today, we published a followup post in the series explaining hot standbys, high availability and streaming replication and detailed instructions on how to set these up for your application.
Every Little Things Capistrano Does Is Magic
That’s the title of my new post on RubyFleebie. It’s about the not so obvious things that capistrano does when you type cap deploy in a rails 3.1+ app.
Gumrider - API client for Gumroad
Gumrider covered 99% of available methods in the Gumroad’s API and is available on Github and RubyGems. Install via ‘gem install gumrider’. Docs included in the repository.