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Slim v1.2.0 released
Just released Slim v1.2.0 which includes support for dynamic attributes. Changes
RESTful thinking considered harmful
I wrote an article discussing how prioritizing RESTful design principles over designing for the process your app is supporting, can lead to bugs and security issues.
Manageable - a Rails Engine that provides unobtrusive administration features for Rails apps
Manageable is a Rails >= 3.1 Engine that provides unobtrusive administration features for Rails applications. Read more
User feedback gem supporting Rails startups
We’ve just launched Engage!, a customer feedback system tailored for Rails startups. It’s available for free to non-profits, open source and new startup projects.
An alternative marketplace for Heroku add-ons
I am an add-on provider on Heroku (DbInsights, BI and database analytics) and thought that the current marketplace is too far from the current standards of a typical marketplace (developed in this post). I propose an alternative with all the bells and whistles you would expect, go rate the add-ons you’re using on Heroku !
Global Hack Day #3, Thursday April 5
The idea of having weekly or monthly hack nights has worked great for Ruby users groups all over the world, but the folks at Mendicant University feel like the internet deserves a similar kind of event. Read more
Dancing with data, anyone?
Okay, again. This is not Ruby. However this could be very useful in conjunction with a Ruby Backend for the data. Dance.js is a data-driven visualization framework. It’s basically a flavor of Backbone.js, but enriched with some of the ideas of the very popular D3.js visualization framework. Don’t miss the Barchart Dance.
Solve online puzzles with Rubeque!
Over at Rake Routes I’ve written a blog post about Rubeque, the new Ruby puzzle site.
User interface is where s.u.c.c.e.s.s begins
It’s not Rails but yet it cannot be avoided either. Check out a 1 minute pictorial reasons for why User interface is where s.u.c.c.e.s.s begins.
Help Yehuda Katz make Rails on OS X easy again! (on Kickstarter)
Yehuda wants to develop an easy to use and install Mac app, to help make Rails easy to develop with on the Mac (again) Read more
a gem for dynamically generate nested form fields
I just launched dynamic_fields, a simple rails engine to dynamically generate nested form fields.
master slave replication in rails
I just created a new post master slave replication in rails to introduce maser slave replication, how to use in rails, and the solution to replication lag.
Endless page using jQuery and will_paginate
A neat how to on Endless page using jQuery and will_paginate.
Introduction to Ruby code optimization
We just published an introduction to ruby code optimization and associated tools on our blog. Feedback and comments are welcome.
health_inspector - Inspect your chef repo and chef server
If you use Chef you may find you aren’t sure if your cookbooks are in sync with what is on the server. Especially if your cookbooks are individual git repos. I just created this gem to help out.
Availability of ITTIA DB SQL on IAR Embedded Workbench(R)
Embedded developers can now use ITTIA DB SQL in combination to IAR Embedded Workbench(R) to leverage enterprise data management features with a powerful compiler and a debugging tool suite. This offering includes development interoperability and low-cost maintainability, as both technologies are cross-platform and support various operating systems and processor architectures.
Ruby Lugdunum 2012 - Ruby Conf in Lyon, France
Ruby Lugdunum (a.k.a Rulu) will be back on June 22 - 23 in Lyon, France. Rulu 2012 is a two-day single-track conference on Ruby featuring great talks, awesome food and time to hack together! CFPs are open and early bird tickets will be on sale on Tuesday! More infos on Rulu.eu.
Diffbench tool: runs benchmark code before and after a patch
Diffbench is a tool I end up during many performance patches to Rails It runs a same benchmark code before and after applying a patch. Read more
Ruby On REST 5: Learn Hypermedia By Making Fruit Salad
Discussing the concept of REST and hypermedia we learn what is a hypermedia type, why HAL+JSON makes our life easier and how to fix a yummy fruit salad.
tmux for rails developers
I just published some thoughts about tmux for rails developers.
YAML(YAML Ain’t a Markup Language)
A cheatsheet on YAML.
rails-footnotes 3.7.6 has been released
I just released rails-footnotes 3.7.6. Read more
Git presenter v0.2.1 released
I just released Git Presenter v0.2.1 which includes adding bash commands to the presentation and execute them during the presentation. Read more
bookshop releases 0.1.0 - an HTML to PDF/(e)books toolchain framework
I just launched version 0.1.0 of bookshop. Bookshop is a book publishing framework for publishers, editors, and coders in today’s publishing industry. bookshop provides a framework for developing books using well-known web languages like HTML/CSS.
Visualize a set of Graphs using the Neography Gem
Build a matrix of Hiveplots using Neo4j, Gremlin and D3.js