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Rails Coach Podcast Episode 11: Testing Your Application
In this episode of the Rails Coach Podcast, we discuss why your application needs tests, why developers and QA both have responsibility for testing, and what you should be testing. Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast.
Rails Powered MLB Stats with Baseball Statz App
Baseball Statz is a Rails app hosted on Heroku that uses the Ruby powered Gameday API which provides live MLB stats. View all the stats for today’s games here.
Rails Coach Episode 10: Understanding and Growing Business
In this episode I discuss the value that developers gain and add by understanding business and how their employer or client makes their money.
MySQL and MongoDB working together in Kanbanery
Here’s why and how we use MySQL and MongoDB in one of our applications thanks to the awesomeness of DataMapper
Ruby Midwest Conference Opens Call for Speakers
The Ruby Midwest Conference has opened its Call for Speakers. Come share your excitement, experience, and expertise with fellow Rubyists in the Midwest! We’re pleased to announce that Yehuda Katz is scheduled to keynote this two day, single track conference held in Kansas City, MO on July 16-17, 2010. Sign up for email announcements on the website or follow us on Twitter to keep up with our latest news.
Testing email delivery in Rails with Gmail & HTTParty
We have a rails app in development that will send a lot of email so I wanted to setup a way to test that it was being delivered. In my integration tests I trigger an action that delivers email and then check my Gmail inbox for the email in question.
Peeping Tom: A free (open source, Ruby) site pinger
I just launched Peeping Tom, a ruby gem that helps monitor your webapps.
Thoughts on MongoHQ pricing
MongoHQ have launched - with pricing options! The results, as MongoMapper author John Nunemaker tweeted, were surprising. Here are my thoughts on MongoHQ.
ruby-standard.org
Announcing ruby-standard.org in hopes of fostering discussion of the Ruby ISO standardization effort.
Faye gets server-side clients
Faye is a simple-to-use publish/subscribe messaging library that implements the Bayeux protocol for Ruby and Node.js. The latest release adds support for server-side clients, so now your backend application can send messages out to client browsers.
Vim for Rails Development
Where to start and how to learn Vim for Rails Development by referencing some books/screencasts.
Social Networking as a Service with EngineY
EngineY is an open source project that provides a complete social networking framework that can be run stand alone as a social network similar to a Ning social network, or it can be integrated with an existing website to provide just the social capabilities. It is a project that I have been developing over the past year or so. In this post, I want to talk about another way you can use EngineY, not as an application or framework that you would integrate into your code, but as a server that can provide all of the social features for your existing web applications… (READ MORE)
Schema-Free MySQL vs NoSQL (with help from Ruby)
There is no reason why we can’t have a schema-free MySQL engine to compete with the NoSQL solutions. A look at what “schema-free” and “document-oriented” actually means, and the ruby code to make it work.
Fun with Rails 3 Beta
I am quite sure that if you are a ruby developer you have heard that Rails 3 beta is now out. Here is a quick run through on installing it. Read Full Article
Gettext on Rails 3.0.0.beta
An example app of gettext on rails 3.0. Got another ruby/rails gem you need to get upgraded to 3.0? post it on Next Sprocket!
Custom Shoulda macros — a tutorial
If you’re a Shoulda user (a begginer or intermediate), you might be interested in a tutorial on writing custom Shoulda macros, i.e. how easy it is to create your own version of should_have_many etc.
Introducing Configr, an elegant configuration interface in Ruby
Configr aims to provide a clean interface for configuring and reading a set of configuration values. The idea evolved from using a standard hash as a configuration store into a more elegant way to declare and read values from within a hash. Check out the blog post.
Slug-less pretty permalink based URL’s in Rails 2.3
Slugs are bad kids. I know rails 2.3 is obsolete now that 3.0 is on the cards ;-) but slugs_are_bad is a plugin that allows you to create slug-less url’s for your rails app without having to make too many changes to your code. I created a quick blog post to explain the plugin here.
Rails 3: Let ActiveRecord Manage Your Translations
For anyone tired of managing translations in YAML files, Rails 3’s I18n ActiveRecord backend is easy to setup and use.
implements - regulated interfaces for ruby
One thing about java that’s pretty useful is it’s regulated interfaces. This is a simple proof-of-concept of that pattern implemented in Ruby.
Frank - a gem for static builds and prototypes
Frank lets you build static sites super fast. It uses Tilt, so it comes with support for Haml & Sass, LESS, Builder, ERB, Liquid, Mustache, & CoffeeScript. Frank also has a helpers for lorem text and generating placeholder images.
Mongrations: Migrations for MongoMapper
I just sleepily wrote mongrations, a Rails plugin that gives you migrations for MongoMapper.
About PeepCode's Blog
Geoffrey Grosenbach describes how he built a blog that supports per-post styles using Sinatra, Haml, and more.
Steps to replace bundler 0.8 with bundler08
If you got gems lying around that still use bundler 0.8, try this without rebuilding/reinstalling the lying gems.
Ruby’s Implementation Does Not Define its Semantics
A post by Yehuda Katz about Ruby’s Implementation Does Not Define its Semantics. I particularly liked hearing about the regex stuff as I have always found it to be awkward.