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Forme: New form library for ruby
I just released a new HTML forms library called Forme. It has no external dependencies, a friendly API and DSL, and integrates nicely with Sinatra and Sequel.
Picking the right number as quickly as possible
Just finished a post detailing how I used the Binary search algorithm in ruby to find a specific number quickly over a range of possible values. Feel free to offer comments or suggestions to the algorithm.
20+ Rubyists to Follow on Google+
20+ Rubyists to Follow on Google+. Are you there?
Free The Enterprise With Ruby & Master Your Own Domain
I just posted a short blog article and my slides on my talk about Open Source, SQL Server & Ruby With Windows.
Mida v0.3.0 A Microdata parser/extractor library
This release has better facilities for describing a vocabulary and finally adds Bundler support. More information is available in the release news and on the Mida project page.
My ruby adventure starts...
My ruby adventure has began… I am traveling across the USA attending ruby meetups. Check out the review of the San Francisco Ruby on Rails Group.
Building a Clone of the Watchr Gem
Following on my Ruby File IO series, this post puts some of the discussed techniques on practice by showing how to build a small clone of the continuous-testing gem Watchr
Paint: A Terminal Painter
No string extensions / 256 color support / effect support / custom shortcuts. Just another terminal colors gem ;). Tries to combine the best of term-ansicolor, rainbow and other terminal color gems with a nice syntax and great flexibility: github.com/janlelis/paint
Barney: Sharing data between processes made easy
Barney makes sharing data between processes easy and natural by providing a simple and easy-to-use DSL. I just released v0.16.0 to github and rubygems.org . It’s a big release, and the next one will be v1.0.0. The Guides and API documentation are linked through github, and should provide you with everything you need to know to begin using Barney. Please test, and let me know what you think!
AdhearsionConf 2011 Registration Open
AdhearsionConf 2011 has been announced for October 8th & 9th in San Francisco, CA. Great time to learn more about Adhearsion and meet the rest of the community. Free registration is now about at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1762530777.
Eventable 0.1.3 - Adds non-blocking callbacks
Eventable is the easiest way to add events to your Ruby classes. Update 0.1.3 adds threaded callbacks. This drastically improves Eventable’s performance and keeps long running or malfunctioning callbacks from stopping other callbacks or events from firing. Github: https://github.com/mikbe/eventable && RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/gems/eventable
Improve Rails Asset Caching with MD5 and virtual folders
/foo.jpg -> /asset-v123af/foo.jpg (or /foo.jpg?123af) - MD5 only changes on content-change and is identical on all servers. Folders are CDN/proxy/… cacheable and transparent via nginx/apache rewrite rule. For Rails 2 + 3.0: virtual asset paths
Quick Win: Get Your Conditions in Order
It’s so simple… yet often overlooked. Put your conditional expressions in the right order and get an immediate performance bump. More in our latest blog post.
GemAWeek Episode 4 - Navigasmic
Just posted the fourth episode of GemAWeek. This week I get all navigasmic by semantically creating list-based navigation.
Invite Facebook Friends using Omniauth and FB JS SDK [Screencast]
I just posted a screencast on how to Invite Facebook Friends with Omniauth and the Facebook JS SDK. It builds on Ryan Bates’ railscast Simple OmniAuth.
Using the Google Authenticator app with Rails
Following on from last weeks post on Two-factor Authentication with Rails this new post adds support for the Google Authenticator app for Android, iPhone and Blackberry.
Building Structured API Clients with API Smith
Darcy Laycock of the Frontier Group offers an introduction to API Smith, a simple way to quickly build structured API clients on top of HTTP Party and Hashie.
Fighting Software Erosion with Explicit Contracts (The New Heroku, 4/4)
An exploration of software erosion (aka “bit rot”) in Ruby web apps, and how explicit contracts separate app from infrastructure and provide resistance to erosion over the long term. Part of a four-part series “The New Heroku.”
jQuery tip: sanitize input fields
Short, easy and straight to the point. Sanitize input fields with jQuery
Building a Rails server with Puppet
A short write up of my experience learning and configuring Puppet to build and manage servers to serve Rails applications.
Conferences and accessibility
2 small asks of anyone organising a conference: Conferences and accessibility: please try harder
Rails: store dates in UTC and display them in local time onto client side
A tiny note about how to work with UTC dates in Rails and how to process and display them in local time on the client using javascript.
Ruby File IO API
I just launched a series detailing the Ruby File IO API.
Building a Public API in Rails 3
Just wrote up a detailed tutorial about building a public JSON/XML API on the Miso Engineering blog using Rails 3, OAuth, and the RABL gem for creating the response templates. Figured since we just built our fully fledged Public API with several available third-party applications available, that we should document some of our experiences. Let us know what you think and if there are any other related topics you’d like us to post about.