An exciting, but not very glamorous change coming in Ruby 2.0...

This morning I wrote about Why You Should Be Excited About Garbage Collection in Ruby 2.0 .

Rails CMS landscape from 10,000ft high

A very quick analysis I made (if it can be called an analysis, really…) on some of the current CMS options for ruby.

Adhearsion 2.0 Plugins: Part 2

Luca Pradovera has posted part 2 of his 3-part series demonstrating the power of plugins in Adhearsion 2. For those not familiar, Adhearsion is a Rails-like framework for build voice applications, and is approaching its 2.0 release.

Discussing design patterns(in ruby). Factory method

I’ve opened a repo on github where I’m going to try to understand the most common design patterns and implement them in ruby. So please, if you want to participate in the discussion of patterns, share your experience or you just have any critics(mostly appreciated) please don’t hesitate to take part in. Thanks.

spice up your cucumber html output

cucumber-relizy [more inside]

Git presenter

I just released an early version of git presenter, a tool help to give presentations with live code. I wrote an initial blog post with a screencast on how to use it or look at the the git repo

multiple_mailers - send emails by different smtp accounts

I just released a gem multiple_mailers, it extends actionmailer to allow one smtp account per mailer class. I also wrote a blog post to explain.

Fast deployment using Capistrano, RVM and more

I just wrote a new blog post on Fast deployment using Capistrano, RVM and more loaded with all the details needed to bootstrap server in 10 minutes.

Javascript templates using eco.

Eco makes coffeescript available on javascript templates, like jst + erb. Rails + Coffee + Eco + JQuery = AWWWW YEAH!.

Replacing gemsets with bundler

On Ruby Rogues, André Arko mentioned that he doesn’t use gemsets to manage project gems. I was intrigued so I investigated how well that works. Turns out, that works quite well. I’ve written an article on Rake Routes on how to use Bundler instead of rvm gemsets to manage your project’s gems.

MadCoderTV is live on Roku

Watch your favorite Ruby Videos on your big screen. Open Source, Open Content means you can add videos with a pull request!

Bundler Pain Points

I wrote up a list of some common pain points with Bundler (well, at least the pain points that are common to me). I also list various fixes and workarounds.

New Ruby video series on YouTube

Matt Stopa has begun posting a nice series of videos on YouTube, each one introducing some basic concepts in Ruby. These brief videos show him typing in code in real time while giving explanations and comparisons of various ways to implement and improve Ruby code. http://www.youtube.com/user/MattStopaDev

A Unix Shell in Ruby - Pipes

I just published the fourth article in a series where I implement a Unix shell in pure Ruby code. This time it covers shell pipelines.

minitest-metadata: annotate tests with metadata (key-value).

wisepdf – wkhtmltopdf done right

After a couple of weeks spent with WickedPDF and PDFKit I understood, that I can make something better. And it is called wisepdf! [more inside]

Decoupling Persistence from your Domain

A method for using either inheritance (with naming conventions) or mixins to segregate persistence concerns from your domain models. README / example code on github here. Blog post / comments here.

Wiserespond - one more way to make your controllers DRY

Just crafted small Gem to make your controllers even more DRYer and extremely easy to understand. [more inside]

Gitara - A Ruby DSL for generating Lilypond guitar tablatures

Gitara is a Ruby DSL for generating Lilypond guitar tablatures. At 0.4.2, it’s still a work in progress. But you should now be able to write some decent guitar tablatures with it (check out the examples!). [more inside]

Using a Matrix to Visualize a Social Network

Visualize a Social Network with the Neography gem and Neo4j.