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The IMDB gem is back and working again!
With the support of the awesome Ruby community I’ve yesterday updated and released version 0.6.6 of the IMDB gem. Everything is back and working properly again. I’m accepting new features! [rubygems] [github] [rdoc]
How to - serving cross domain ajax requests from a Ruby app
I wrote a quick blog post explaining how to set your Ruby app to handle HTML5 cross domain ajax requests.
BostonRB September Videos - TDD
This month BostonRB focused on the latest and greatest TDD tools in Ruby Jeremy Weiskotten presented on the “big picture” of TDD Steve Klabnik presented on Minitest Ben Orenstein presented on FactoryGirl 2.0 Patrick Robertson presented on Capybara 2.0 Joe Ferris presented on Capybara-Webkit
Yesterday gem version 1.0.rc1 released
I just launched my gem Yesterday. The Yesterday gem lets you track changes made in ActiveRecord models. [more inside]
New RubyStack support Rails 3.1
We have just released a new version of BitNami RubyStack that supports Rails 3.1. BitNami RubyStack is an easy one-click installer for Windows, OS X and Linux. It is self-contained and independent so you can install it without modifying your system. You can also download Virtual Appliances or run the Cloud Images in Amazon AWS. [more inside]
Learning Ruby: Gotchas and Pitfalls
While learning Ruby I keep on stumbling about things that work differently than the languages I’m used to. This is a short list of gotchas I’ve encountered so far. Learning Ruby: Gotchas and Pitfalls
raad (Ruby as a daemon) 0.4.0 released
I just released version 0.4.0 of raad (Ruby as a daemon) lightweight daemon/service wrapper. raad is a non-intrusive, lightweight, simple Ruby daemon wrapper, now with seamless JRuby support! Basically a simple class which implements the start and stop methods, can be used as a standalone background process, with start/stop, pid file, logging support.
Using Goliath as an API proxy
How I used the Goliath server from Postrank to proxy API requests to Twilio on behalf of my app’s users.
Take a Ruby on Rails course from Rails Rookies
I just launched Rails Rookies. I’ve gotten a lot of requests for courses for Ruby on Rails. So, I’m now offering the most popularly requested courses. If you’re looking for a course on Ruby on Rails Basics, Testing Ruby on Rails, or more Advanced Ruby on Rails features, I’m offering courses on each. Go to RailsRookies.com for more information.
Mountable resque-web for rails 3+ apps
Why worry about a separate process when you can mount it… (set user and password!) Mountable resque-web
If You Can't Tie A Knot, Tie A Lot
New post on the Collective Idea blog discussing a knot metaphor and over-programming.
The Totally Unofficial Ruby coding style guide
I just launched a totally unofficial Ruby coding style guide, that might be of interest to some of you. Have a look at the initial revision and share your opinion.
Normal cookies inside IFrames for IE via P3P headers
In IE cookies inside IFrames are not the same as on regular pages, to fix this great security feature, this plugin delivers P3P headers to marked IE users and does not give them 304 headers. -> IE IFrame cookies plugin/gem
Challenge: selective color with ChunkyPNG
Because our last ChunkyPNG contest was a great success, we decided to do another one. In this week’s contest, we compete for the best Ruby program to apply the selective color effect to an image. Who needs expensive photo editing tools? We’re programmers!
Updog: Command Line Weather Forecasts using Ruby
updog is a good gem with a horrid name for getting 5 day forecasts - very quickly from the command prompt. [more inside]
Tuning your Maxixe segmenter with the new optimizer
Remember Maxixe, the statistical segmenter for any language? It now has an optimizer for tuning the parameters built in, so be sure to check out what I wrote about it!
Puffer the Admin Interface
Aloha, i’ve just launched the Puffer project. It is a rails >= 3.1 admin interface builder. Here it is: puffer [more inside]
Twitter Bootstrap toolkit with Rails3
I just found one good gem to use Twitter Bootstrap toolkit with rails3.
How to contribute in Rails using Github "fork and edit feature"
I just posted about how to contribute in Rails or any other open source software with using “github edit and fork” button. [more inside]
Using Picky for search and profit
I wrote a post on my experiences with Picky, the semantic search engine and how a maintainer should act in open source projects.
jquery-tmpl-rails: jQuery Templates for the Rails asset pipeline
There are myriad of JavaScript templating libraries available. The one officially adopted by jQuery is the jQuery Templates plugin. I have released jquery-tmpl-rails, a gem which adds the plugin and a corresponding Sprockets engine to the asset pipeline for Rails 3.1 applications.
Hippo - A Ruby Library to Generate X12 5010 (HIPAA) Transactions
Hippo v0.0.4 has just been published. The library now generates valid X12 5010X222A1 (837) files. Checkout the 837 test for a complete example.
How to Design Classes (in Ruby or any OOP)
I would like share this: How to Design Classes (in Ruby or any OOP). PS: Recomend for all!
Integrating Padrino w/ Mongoid & delayed_job on Heroku
I couldn’t find much useful info on integrating delayed_job w/ Sinatra/Padrino .. so I wrote up a sample app w/ Padrino, Mongoid & delayed_job. Oh, and it’s Heroku ready w/ a functional Procfile. Checkout the G+ Post, Gist and App
Control ruby-debug from TextMate/vim
There is simples possible script for pushing breakpoints from TextMate to ruby-debug.