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Interview with Chad Fowler about the Passionate Programmer
I talked to Chad Fowler about his book the Passionate Programmer and building a remarkable career. Chad shared some terrific insights on becoming a better programming and making your career a great one!
Picky semantic text search engine, version 2.0 released.
Picky 2.0 has been released. Yay! If you’re still running on 1.x, see this blog post for what has changed. In a nutshell: The configuration is much more elegant and readable now. Thanks for reading!
Rawler 0.1.0 Has Been Released
Rawler is a command line tool written in Ruby that crawls your website looking for broken links.
Call for papers for ArrrrCamp #5
arrrrcamp.be We’re looking for true craftsmen who want to inspire other programmers. If you are interested to speak about Ruby, Rails, Radiant, your frontend or testing skills, the strange hoops you’ve jumped through or the many isles you’ve raided in your day to day hacking life, you really need to let us know. Check out the talks of last year to get a feeling of our conference and submit your talk today!
Rubysource launches with our opinion piece
Rubysource has just launched as a resource for Ruby on Rails developers. Our opinion piece featured - Why Our Business Runs on Ruby on Rails.
What do you like about Rails?
Gautam Rege of JoshSoftware India writes about what he likes about Rails. What do you think? What do you like about Rails?
Sitemap testing with doublecheck
I wrote a short post about doublecheck and how to use it to verify that pages listed in your sitemap are working as expected.
A Beginner Guide to Creating Class Macros
Still scared about those methods called within a class definition? Read my really simple beginner guide to creating class macros and get to know more about this cool trick!
Rails HTML5 drag & drop multi-file upload
I wrote a blog post on how to combine rack middleware and a popular javascript library to easily handle drag & drop multi-file uploads in a Rails app
Slop version 1.3.0
I just released version 1.3.0 of Slop. Slop is an option parser with an easy to use API and focuses on simplicity. This version adds support for parsing multiple syntaxes from the command line. https://gist.github.com/890309
A two-minute Ruby flavoured survey ...
I’m currently working on a new Ruby-orientated service and would really appreciate input from the community and fellow Ruby developers. Therefore could I ask that you take a couple of minutes to complete this survey
Using New Relic to instrument a Rack app
Got a Rack app you want to get some performance metrics for? Here’s a post on setting up detailed New Relic instrumentation - including Developer Mode - for your Rack app.
Using Backup with Rails
The backup gem really rocks. I’ve written a blog post about using it with Rails in a modular fashion.
A voting extension from scratch for Rails 3 (Part 2)
Just released part 2 of the blog series: A voting extension from scratch for Rails 3 (Part 2 – Testing environment). It’s about setting up the RSpec testing environment, the spec_helper.rb and .gitignore.
MacRuby Moving to GitHub
Till now, MacRuby has been based on SVN so contributing hasn’t been as easy as it might be. It’s good news, then, that Laurent Sansonetti has today announced that MacRuby is moving to GitHub. The MacRuby codebase will be located on GitHub but ticketing features, etc, will remain as-is.
Using MiniTest::Spec With Rails
A simple working solution for using MiniTest::Spec With Rails by tricking ActiveSupport::TestCase to subclass it. I also discuss using the Rails.backtrace_cleaner and MiniShoulda with Rails too.
ClassyEnum: Give Your Enums Some Class
ClassyEnum is a class based enumerator gem for Rails.
A Rails Testing Charity Workshop (The Day Before RailsConf 2011)
Jeff Casimir has announced that he’s running a Rails testing workshop for charity the day before RailsConf 2011 kicks off (so on May 15, 2011). Your instructors will be Jeff Casimir, Nick Gauthier, Matt Yoho, Marc Peabody and you’ll learn all about RSpec, Test::Unit, Capybara, Cucumber and more. If you want to be fully “test fluent” before the conference starts, it sounds like a good session.
_why's Illustrated Foreword
I’ve posted images of the foreword that why the lucky stiff produced for Beginning Ruby. A lot of people haven’t seen them and they’re another delightful part of the _why oeuvre.
Interview with Baq Haidri
Podcast interview with Baq Haidri of LinkedIn about how she was introduced to Ruby, how LinkedIn leverages JRuby, and why she loves programming.