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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]
Ruby Whois Script - whois.rb
I just posted Ruby Whois Script
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]
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.
Single quotes or double quotes?
An opinion on when to use the different quoting styles with some performance notes
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.