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RailsConf 2010: Interview with Fabio Akita
RailsConf 2010: Interview with Fabio Akita. Very interesting thoughts on Ruby and Rails community.
Test today your JavaScript code in a Rails 3 application with Blue Ridge
The project was forked and the generators migrated, learn how to use them.
Announcing AdhearsionConf 2010
Announcing AdhearsionConf 2010 so mark your calendars to be in San Francisco from August 14th to the 15th.
Creating Configuration Files With Ruby Templates
A quick how to on using Ruby’s ERB template system to create tedious configuration files.
SimpleForm: forms made easy for Rails
Carlos Antônio from Plataforma talks about a new open source project they extracted from recent projects to handle forms and markup.
Video: Michael Nutt talks about Gilt Groupe, jruby, etc
I just posted an episode of webpulp.tv with Michael Nutt, he talks about Gilt Groupe, rails, jruby, etc.
Passenger 3 Tech Preview: Closing the gap between dev and production & rethinking the word "easy"
Can Phusion Passenger be easier? Why yes it can.
Regex Result Access Benchmark
I benchmarked String#[/REGEX/, 1] vs String#match(/REGEX/)[0]
Debugging Deadlocks
A 13 minute screencast showing how to track down and fix deadlocks in MySQL and Rails
Rails 3- Building a Blog - Part 2: CRUD Show and Create
The second part of the tutorial for building a blog with Ruby on Rails version 3. We demonstrate how to set up some basic routes, manage the controller and views, and create a basic form for creating posts.
BackendFu explained
Last week we started the project BackendFu, as there was a lot of interest, we tried to explain and discuss the possibilities.
Landing a Rails Job with No Experience is just silly talk
As usual, Bryan has a few good points to say against that post about landing a Rails job with no experience.
Ruby Midwest Conference General Admission Ends Today
Today is the last day to register for Ruby Midwest for only $125. This two-day, single track conference features a great lineup, t-shirt, included breakfast & lunch, and the Intridea sponsored, OMGWTFBBQ after party. Don’t miss out!
I just wrote the second post of the seri...
I just wrote the second post of the serie “Rails Best Practices” Move logic to model.
Humanizer 2.0.0 Released
2.0.0 version of this simple CAPTCHA solution was just released. It’s now DB/ORM agnostic, multiple answers supported, I18n support for answers and questions. It’s going to be the best CAPTCHA solution ever ;)
Routes Testing in Rails
We have just release a small article related to routes testing. A Routes Test has basically 3 parts 1. assert_generate 2. assert_recognizes 3. assert_routing More info you can found here
acts_as_list will break in production
A 4 minute screencast and blog post showing how acts_as_list will break, and how to fix
Couple good old usefull ActiveRecord's methods
Don’t forget increment, decrement, toggle etc. ) Couple good old ActiveRecord’s methods
Metaprogramming in Radiant to solve a simple problem
I wrote about some simple metaprogramming in Radiant to solve an annoying problem of not being able to use custom tags in different contexts. Radiant includes custom tags in the Page model, and a popular option for managing stylesheets and javascripts prevents you from using these same custom tags in them. A few simple lines changes that.
Redmine 0.9.5 released
A new version of the stable branch of Redmine was just released. It includes over 31 bugfixes and patches and may be the last release before Redmine 1.0.
Teach Me To Code Podcast #26 - My Journey
This episode of the TeachMeToCode podcast is an explanation of how I came to programming and why I approach things the way I do. It’s a journey through Electrical Engineering, QA, Tech Support, and Consulting.
Notes from Heroku+MongoHQ+Sinatra deployment
A couple of notes from my first heroku/mongohq/sinatra deployment.
resque-restriction 0.2.0 released
I have released resque-restriction 0.2.0, which is mainly contributed by @wr0ngway, fixing some bugs and adding customized identifier for resque queue. I also added an example on README.markdown about how to restrict facebook wall posts 40 times per user per day.