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Introducing parse-ruby-client
A few weeks ago, Adam Alpern created parse-ruby-client. He has decided to stop work on the project, so I will be contributing/maintaining the project. It’s a very close to the metal API client for Parse.com. Eventually it will power my gem, parse_resource. [more inside]
htmlkickstart — Twitter's Bootstrap alternative
I just launched htmlkickstart — a Rails-friendly gem, which inject HTML KickStart CSS framework into Rails >= 3.1 application. A nice Bootstrap alternative. [more inside]
htmlkickstart — Twitter's Bootstrap alternative
I just launched htmlkickstart — a Rails-friendly gem, which inject HTML KickStart CSS framework into Rails >= 3.1 application. A nice Bootstrap alternative. [more inside]
Jquery Mobile-Rails
I just launched Jquery Mobile Helper for Rails. [more inside]
Push notifications using express.js and socket.io
Ever wondered how to get push notifications on your web-page? Instead of using XMPP solutions, there are simpler techniques today using websockets. Gautam explains how we can send notifications for live bids from a MongoDB backed Rails application to webpages using a combination of socket.io and express.js. Needless to say, this would work only on WebSocket compliant browsers.
Turn 0.9 Release
Turn 0.9 was released yesterday. It addresses all the issues users have reported since the previous 0.8.2 release including full backtrace support, test skipping and the bundle exec autorun problem. All good news. [more inside]
riak-client 1.0.0 Released
riak-client v1.0.0, the official Ruby library for connecting to Riak, has been released to Rubygems. It includes Riak 1.0/1.1 compatibility and a slew of awesome new features. Check out the release notes for more details.
Speed up your tests by combining integration tests with unit tests
Wrote up a quick demonstration of how I combine more high-level Ruby integration tests with fewer unit tests to completely test a codebase without the suite becoming bloated and slow.
Outpost - a personal / public file sharing app
Outpost is a Rails app I’ve used in-house for a specific file sharing use case, that might also be useful generally. Hope it helps!
Using Neography + D3.js to visualize a Neo4j 'follows' Graph
Check out a live demo on Heroku, walk-through and code on Github.
Ruby Rogues 040 - Editors and IDEs
This week the Ruby Rogues have an all out, knock-down drag-out battle royale over text editors and integrated development environments.
Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests
Here’s why I think you should write controller tests (in case you don’t agree): “Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests”.
New Service for managing i18n in rails apps
We are currently developing phrase (phraseapp.com) a new way to manage translations and i18n in your ruby/rails applications using inline editing. Feel free to check out our short demo and provide feedback if you like ;-)
Heroku-hosted, Rocco-powered, doc generator
Today I got annoyed by two things: Rocco issue #69 isn’t closed yet, and working with Ruby in a portable, non-admin, Windows environment is a pain. Especially when I’m trying to make awesome doc for my project. So I wired Roccoliphic up. It’s a very simple, online, kinda beautiful (I think) Rocco doc generator. Really, I can’t say it more simply than this. :) Oh, and it’s on GitHub, too.
Great new features in RefineryCMS
RefineryCMS is reaching 2.0 release soon. I want to introduce you few news committed last few days in my new Retro Rubies blog article. Hints how to test latest edge version included!
Please support w3clove.com
Jaime Iniesta recently removed all advertising/referral links from w3clove.com in the hopes of sustaining its development with support from the community. W3Clove is a site-wide markup validation website (and soon to be service API) which is based on work started in a Mendicant University course. [more inside]
A Chat with Nick Quaranto About RubyGems.org Internals
I had a chance to talk with Nick about RubyGems.org last week - what happens when you run “gem push”, how it serves gems, who else has been helping him on the project, etc. You can read the highlights of our conversation over on rubysource.com.
Pretty Console Logging With Guard::Jasmine & Black Coffee
Helpful hacks for Guard::Jasmine to pretty print objects console.log objects to the terminal window. The forth part in my series on testing Spine.JS with Jasmine on top of a Rails application.
Releasing shell_command
shell_command tries to provide a better interface for communicating with commands you spawn on the shell. Let me know what you think!
Flow to Go...
Yeap, nu7 is blogging now, check out my new page at areyoufuckingcoding.me! It will be mostly about my transition from Ruby/Python to being a full time Go developer. If someone is interested in learning Go, or distributed computing stuff in general, then it will be a great place to do it!
My 12-factor development environment w/ Unicorn and Pound
How I test SSL apps 12-factor style in my development environment using Pound and Unicorn. This simulates how a Unicorn app runs when deployed to Heroku.
What gets built in a Mendicant University course?
We’ve historically been pretty bad at publicizing just how productive the Mendicant University students are. We’re trying to change that, and so I did a writeup on the results of our January 2012 session. Seeing several dozen new projects coming into existence as well as nearly a dozen patches to existing open source projects over the course of just three weeks is an amazing experience!
Up and Running With Ruby Interactive (ri)
I really like Ruby’s ri documentation tool and think Ruby devs need to give it a try. In the following post, I cover how to get started, using the interactive mode, seeing things in color, using ri in vi, and troubleshooting. [more inside]
Save Time With CI
Have you ever lost your groove waiting for your tests to complete? You are coding up a storm, being extremely productive, and then you need to run all your tests before you merge into master. BOOM, productivity destroyed! I just wrote about how to utilize your Continuous Integration server to avoid this issue. Save Time With CI.
The Gamification Development Process
Sure TDD has to be incorporated in your development process. The problem with Agile and Software processes in general is that they don’t address the company. They only address Developers and maybe a few other people. I just created a post on The Gamification Development Process. It is time to address Company wide goals. $$$