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When Ruby Meets Java The Power Of Torquebox
Slides from @arunagw and rockyj.in ’s talk from Ruby Conf India 2012. Slides thanks :-)
The Current State of Ruby concurrency
I’m currently in a project using Websockets and I wanted to share my thoughts about the current state of Ruby concurrency to help the Ruby community going in the right way.
Fifteen of my best Ruby articles are now freely available
When I started writing professionally, I made a promise to myself to eventually release all my content for free. In keeping with that promise, I’ve decided to share Practicing Ruby’s second volume with the Ruby community. Read more
Tabs Rails helper for Twitter Bootstrap
Update to the twitter-bootstrap-components-helper micro-gem. It now does tabs as well as accordions. Read about it here
cameraplus - a Ruby wrapper around the Camera+ iPhone app Web Sharing API
You might have heard about the recent release of the Camera+ iPhone app API, but they also released a Web Sharing API. I’ve just released the cameraplus gem which provides a simple wrapper to easily use the Camera+ Web Sharing API in your own project. The documentation can be found on Github.
bullet 2.3.0 released
bullet is a gem to help you increase your application’s performance by reducing the number of sql requests it makes. bullet 2.3.0 got 10% performance improved for activerecord 3.0.12, it works much faster, bullet for ar 3.1.4 is 48% faster than for ar 3.0.12, and for ar 3.2.2 is 40% faster than for ar 3.0.12, check out the changelog here.
What happens when DDD meets Lean approach...
I just published my new blog post, this time more ruby related. It’s about my hacker’s thoughts on Lean Startup, DDD and DCI. I appreciate any feedback!
switch_user 0.7.0 released
It has been a long time coming, but switch_user 0.7.0 finally supports restful_authentication. switch_user gem provides a convenient way to switch current user that speeds up your development and reproduce user specified error on production.
xml-motor ~ What? Why? How?
Blog Entry on What is xml-motor? Why and How should you use it? http://justfewtuts.blogspot.in/2012/03/xml-motor-what-it-is-how-why-should-you.html. Or, if you get bored of reading a blog, get it in a less boring outlook at this presentation pdf @speakerdeck.
What's new in Redmine 1.4.0
Redmine 1.4.0 is almost out. Here’s a list of the most important changes and new features!
Rails + REST: the views nightmare
I just finished an article describing a nice approach for handling complex views of Rails (or Rack) based REST providers.
Cinch 2.0 is here
Today I released version 2.0 of the best known IRC framework for Ruby, introducing a lot of nice new features and API improvements. Changelog and migration guide (for older users) can be found at http://bit.ly/GLoXVP and http://bit.ly/GO4qkW respectively.
What the hell is a hypermedia API and why should I care?
This is a blog post I wrote on Hypermedia APIs in the context of Ruby/Rails
Dress Up Gem
A new gem to check out! Dress Up allows you to specify named sets of method overrides that you can selectively enable and disable.
OpenAuth2 is a thin OAuth2 wrapper written on top of Faraday
100% test coverage Mostly documented Travis support Plenty of examples Read more
A Rails engine to edit live copy
We’ve released Copycat version 0.1.0, a Rails engine that allows editing live copy that is managed with the I18n #translate view helpers.
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.
ActiveResource Removed from Rails. What about Roar?
ActiveResource was removed from Rails, we where using it but now moving we are moving to Roar. I wrote this article to provide an overview about Roar and how it can be used as replacement of ActiveResource ActiveResource Removed from Rails. What about Roar?
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.