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ChunkyPNG and OilyPNG 1.0 released
After more than a year of development, I released version 1.0 of ChunkyPNG, the pure Ruby library for handling PNG images, and OilyPNG, the C module that will speed it up. [more inside]
CoffeeScript (Episode 90 from the SD Ruby podcast)
People are drawn to Ruby by its beautiful syntax, and CoffeeScript brings that same joie de vivre to Javascript. John Lynch shares his experience using CoffeeScript for both web and mobile app development. Watch episode
A better irb and Rails Console that will make your life easier!
IRT adds a lot of cool features to the standard irb: recording, replay and testing, inspection and diff tools, contextual ri doc, in place editing with syntax highligh, colored output, and lot more. Just try the simple tutorial (with a lot of screenshots) and you will never want to use the vanilla irb again ;-)
Introduction to Sinatra (8 Minutes)
We’ve just launched the Introduction to Sinatra. It’s an 8 minute jaunt into the basics of routing, variables, named parameters and views. Check it out!
one9 - A commandline tool to upgrade to ruby 1.9.2
Introducing one9, a gem to help upgrade to ruby 1.9.2. Read here to see how it works. So why not upgrade now?
Capfire gem updated, now with idiot detection
I just updated capfire, a gem created to post a message to Campfire after a deploy. This release is a better capistrano companion (it now respects dry_run etc.) [more inside]
Tutorial for Adding Tabs to Rails Using Tabulous
I’ve updated the syntax of the brand new tabulous gem and created a step-by-step tutorial on how to add tabs to a Rails app.
Callbacks with jquery-ujs in Rails 3
Neeraj Singh who is a core member of the jquery-ujs project has an informative blog post on describing jquery callbacks in Rails3. In this post Neeraj walks through a detailed example of how to delete a record using Ajax.
Rails models to Open Graph objects with acts_as_opengraph
I just launched acts_as_opengraph, an ActiveRecord extension that turns your models into Facebook’s Open Graph objects.
ActiveRecord to Facebook's Open Graph objects with acts_as_opengraph
I just launched acts_as_opengraph, an ActiveRecord extension that turns your models into Facebook’s Open Graph objects.
How to send email asynchronously using Devise and Rails3
I just wrote a post about how to send email asynchronously using Devise and Rails3 and delayed_job.
Ruby Best Practices Blog comes back to life, sort of.
While we don’t have immediate plans for posting genuinely new content to the RBP blog, we’ve decided to gradually release all of my newsletter articles from the now-discontinued Practicing Ruby newsletter. The first issue has already been posted, and new ones will follow every Tuesday and Thursday until we reach Issue #30. Enjoy!
Interview with Santiago Pastorino
Interview with Santiago Pastorino - at LessCode.se
Fun with ruby arrays, hashes and benchmarking
My friend always jokes about waiting for a late post from me on subjects that come up from the day. I had one of this discussions today about making a hash from arrays that turned into a learning exercise that you can read about here
Ruby AMQP Benchmarks
AMQ Protocol gem is 4.875x faster, and it needs 5.417 less objects than current AMQP encoder/decoder in the AMQP gem, here are some benchmarks I wrote (nice graphs included :) ). AMQ Protocol gem will be integrated into the next AMQP gem release, so everyone shall benefit from this! [more inside]
capistrano_winrm version 1.0.0 released
The capistrano_winrm extension just reached version 1. It allows for finer-grained connections to Windows servers as well as Kerberos authentication and encryption to remote boxes on an Active Directory domain. More info here.
Sinatra 1.2 released
We are happy to announce a new Sinatra release - Sinatra 1.2.0. More infos can be found here.
Sinatra 1.2.0 Released
Konstantin Haase has just announced the release of Sinatra 1.2.0. It now supports the Slim Template Engine, inline Markaby, conditional filters, named captures, and more. Congrats to the whole Sinatra team.
Introducing Tabulous: Tabs in Rails
I just released a gem that makes it very easy for you to add tabs in Rails. Enjoy!
Phusion Unveils 'Union Station': A Webapp Monitoring Tool
Phusion (the folks behind Passenger) have unveiled their latest creation - a webapp performance monitoring and behavior analysis service called Union Station. It’s currently free during the beta phase (though only the first 1000 apps will be accepted) but will eventually be a paid service.
Capybara (and Selenium) with RSpec & Rails
A quick tutorial on how to get started with Capybara in an RSpec 2 + Rails 3 application.
Cinch 1.1.2 released
We have just released version 1.1.2 of Cinch, the IRC bot building framework. The 1.1.2 release fixes a bunch of small bugs. Check out the project on GitHub