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Rails fragment caching
Keep track of fragment cache keys, to be sure that your cache is always up to date
How to Land a Rails Job with No Experience
Looking to break into the Rails world? Got no experience? Here’s how to do it.
Failtale: error reporting
Failtale is an error reporting application. It’s platform agnostic, open source and free. There are allready several libraries available.
The Great Ruby Shootout (Windows Edition)
This post contains the results of a new Ruby shootout I recently conducted on Windows. The implementations tested were Ruby 1.8.7, Ruby 1.9.1, Ruby 1.9.2, JRuby 1.5.1, and IronRuby 1.0. Which one was the fastest? Find out here.
Finally: Releasing Navvy 0.3
It’s been a while, but I finally got a chance to release Navvy 0.3 (the database agnostic Ruby background job processor). In this announcement I’ll cover some of the changes and new features 0.3 introduces.
Ruby Hoedown MMX -- The FREE Ruby Conference
We’re having the Ruby Hoedown in Nashville again this year on 9/3-9/4, and also much like last year, it’s free! We’re currently open for registration, but more importantly, the CFP is open (and closes on July 2, this Friday)!
Elise Huard's new Ruby Challenge
Elise Huard challenges Ruby newbies to the “Game of Life”. It’s free to participate and you could win prizes.
RVM and Rails 3 walkthrough
After discussing the merits of RVM for trying out Rails 3 without disrupting one’s development environment with some local Rubyists, I wrote this quick walkthrough of installing RVM and a Rails 3 gemset targeted toward people who haven’t used RVM.
One-to-Many Associations in Netzke
New tutorial on Netzke (Ext JS and Rails framework): going into details on one-to-many associations in grids and forms.
Humanizer - Very simple CAPTCHA tool for Rails
I just released first version of Humanizer gem. Humanizer is a really simple CAPTCHA tool for Rails (Rails 3 support out of the box).
test_inline - Put tests next to the code being tested
test_inline is a new experiment in automated testing. The idea is to put your tests next to the code being tested. Sort of like how rdoc brought documentation into the code this does the same for tests. If you feel like trying something new check it out.
Mapping the Ruby on Rails worldwide community and their needs - Results
You can find the poll results here
time_of_day for Rails 3
Have you already worked with a database Time column and an Active Record model together? If you had, you know: it sucks. Well, not anymore. http://github.com/lailsonbm/time_of_day
TMTC 25 - Interview with Eric Malamisura from Agile Dash
I interviewed Eric Malamisura, the creator of Agile Dash, a new tool for Agile Development. You can get the interview here. [more inside]
Radiant CMS 0.9 is out
I’m happy to say that Radiant CMS 0.9 has been released. It’s got internationalization, pagination tags, loads extensions as gems, and lots of other fixes and features.
ArrrrCamp announces speakers
ArrrrCamp, the Ruby, Rails, Radiant & Rum conference in Ghent, Belgium, just announced their speaker for the fourth edition and opened the ticket sale. First confirmed speakers are Yehuda Katz, Carl Lerche, Drew Neil and Joseph Wilk.
Example App for Rails 3 + Mongoid + Devise
On GitHub: rails3 mongoid devise example app and tutorial. With an application template generator so anyone can use the example as a beginning point for a new Rails app. Options for Haml and Heroku.
Weak Consistency and CAP Implications
CAP theorem says that we can’t have consistency, availability, and partition tolerance all at once: pick two! How does that affect all of the NoSQL databases and our architectures? Well, it is far more nuanced than just pick any two.
New Adhearsion Version 0.8.4 Released
After a long time coming I would like to announce the release of Adhearsion v0.8.4! Adhearsion was originally created by Jay Phillips (@jicksta) in 2006. Since that time it has evolved to become one of the most complete and widely adopted development frameworks for the Asterisk open-source telephony engine. [more inside]
Run ack in TextMate with AckMate
AckMate is a great TextMate plugin to get you the power of ack
Rack Cache on Heroku with Memcache
I wrote down some details about using the memcached heroku add-on with rack-cache. It wasn’t obvious to me at first.
The 28 Bytes of Ruby Joy!
Using OpenSSL with Ruby for String / File encryption
I just posted a blog about using OpenSSL to do string/file encryption => OpenSSL String Encryption.
VCLog v1.6
I just launched a new version of VCLog. I’m very excited about this release –I feel it’s nearly finished (well, in so far as any program can be said to be finished). This new release adds sexy ANSI color and uses customizable heuristics to categorize commits. Very cool stuff.
acts_as_decimal for rails 3
We just launched a new ruby gem called acts_as_decimal to treat integer active_record attributes as floats! Check out the source code on Github too.