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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. Read more
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. Read more
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.
RubyMine 4 is Out — Speed Up with Ruby and Rails IDE
RubyMine 4, the latest major release of the intelligent Ruby on Rails IDE from JetBrains, brings significant performance improvements, a brand new UI, improved CoffeeScript and SCSS/LESS editors, and many other features. Read more and download RubyMine 4.
Introducing Gemfury - It's Dropbox for Rubyists
We’ve just launched Gemfury: Private Gem Server cloud service. If you have packaged some private code into RubyGems, but have had problems deploying them to your hosts, Heroku, or other cloud platforms, I recommend you find out more about us.
ror_ecommerce 1.0.0 release!!!
I just released ror_ecommerce 1.0.0. I also gave a quick tutorial on how to setup ror_ecommerce on Heroku. Also take a look at the project on github. Enjoy Rails 3.2
The go command...
Thought, my recent blog post about new go command may be also interesting for the rubyists, check it out here.
Big Fat Rails - Creative Commons ebook/screencasts
Big Fat Rails is my latest project for learning Ruby on Rails. Any feedback on what you think would be valuable for a newbie to learn would be greatly appreciated.
More lib directory love!
Common patterns for happy hacking your lib directory
Static analysis for your Ruby code with Pelusa
We just launched Pelusa, a static analysis tool for Ruby code, and also blogged about it!