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Lockdown now dev mode friendly!
Lockdown, the authorization system for Rails 2.x, just released version 1.6.0. Restarts are no longer required after config changes, read more.
fixing: "undefined method `add_acts_as_authentic_module'"
I’ve searched on the web for answers and there’s not a really good source as to why it happens or what can be done to fix it. Yesterday, I put an end to the error in authlogic_facebook_connect and wanted to post here so the next schlub who comes along googling for a solution will find it.
Distributed Programming with Ruby Book - Now Available!
My new book, Distributed Programming with Ruby, is now available on Amazon.com. [more inside]
Startup Crawl in SF, 20 Nov 2009
A tour of some of San Francisco’s hottest startups from 5:30-10:30p on Friday November 20th, 2009. Whether you ride the shuttle from RubyConf or make your own way to the city come see the people behind some of your favorite startups!
Using the New Rubygems Bundler
Need your bundler fix? Sam Merritt has a great ‘get up and running’ post on the Engine Yard Blog. If you missed it, Yehuda Katz also did a technical deep-dive bundler post on his blog.
Jitterbug: A just-in-time image creator for pretty text headers
Flying Saucer has launched Jitterbug, a gem that provides on-demand text-based header graphics using the font of your choice, providing an easy way to manage rich text headers. Especially useful in i18n projects. On the first request, Jitterbug creates the requested header graphic and returns its image or header tag. On subsequent requests it references the already-created graphic and returns the requested html tag.
Hashie: The Hash Toolkit
If you’re a user of Mash or someone who likes things built on hashes, be advised! Hashie is a new library that solves the namespace conflict once and for all as well as adds some new tools. Blog post here.
small library for getting "lucky" numbers for national lotteries
Unfortunately I didn’t win 40mln (PLN). Maybe someone will be more lucky :) Try it out: defkode’s lotto
10 lesser known ways to find a suitable ruby on rails team for your next project
Everytime we talk to our clients, we find that they are not aware of lot of options through which they can find a good rails developer. I just compiled a list of few sites and ways to find a rails developer for your next project.
MongoScope
I just launched MongoScope, a scope wrapper for the MongoDB ruby driver, inspired by Searchlogic. It’s brand new, but thought people might be interested.
Premature end of script headers - Ruby on Rails with Phusion Passenger on Apache error
If you are experiencing this error, check out this blog post.
Loading Rails conditionally with Rack
Some clever rackup loading now allows gems to be downloaded from Gemcutter even when it’s down for maintenance. Read more here!
Consuming XMPP PubSub in Ruby
A how-to for using blather and switchboard gems in Ruby to work with XMPP PubSub streams.
Ruby in the browser as if JavaScript
Gestalt is a library released by MIX Online Labs that allows you to write Ruby, Python & XAML code in your (X)HTML pages. It enables you to build richer and more powerful web applications by marrying the benefits of expressive languages, modern compilers, AJAX & RIAs with the write » save » refresh development model of the web.
Pop quiz: Are you using Rails 3 (HEAD) for real projects yet?
The title says it all; please leave a comment if you are using Rails 3 on any real projects, or still Rails 2.3? And possibly, why.
Merge ActiveRecord`s preserving attributes, associations and coutners
try ARMerge Rails Plugin/Gem
Rails + ExtJS: Window, new Netzke widget
How difficult should it be to create a Netzke widget? See the new blog post. With live demo.
RubyMine 2.0 RC
We’ve just uploaded the Release Candidate for RubyMine 2.0 IDE, with many fixes and some additions since last Beta. Do not miss the last chance to get the 20$ discount.
munin-nginx-ubuntu
How’s your server doing? Encharge your ubuntu rails server with stats from munin. This steps will take you through installing munin and the munin nginx plugins. Check it out
Webbynode's Weekly Highlights #1
One of the things we enjoy the most are interesting overall ‘geeky’ links, whether they refer to linux, mac stuff, office design, web applications, etc. We’ll be sharing some of the links we run into each week. Read it here
New Screencast: Creating a Twitter Clone in Rails - Part 4
In case you are following the ‘Creating a Twitter Clone with Rails’ screencast series, the latest release is now out. Continue learning how to create a ‘Flitter’ application using Rails at TeachMeToCode.com
ThinkingSphinx and Nil Results
Just a quick tip to prevent ThinkingSphinx from returning nil results for deleted records and borking your app.
If you’re cleaning up your user’s input in your views you’re doing it wrong
Have you ever found yourself using the “h” view helper all around your views in your applications? Have you ever thought that cleaning up user input in views is a tedious, error prone and cumbersome job? You’re not alone. Read on to find a dead simple solution for this issue.
Rack::GemAssets
Do you want to serve assets from gems without doing some crazy symlinking? Rack::GemAssets does exactly this! (works with Rails or any other Rack enabled web app)
BDDCasts: Removing duplicate Twitter results
Querying Twitter repeatedly will return some of the results already fetched in previous runs, so episode 11 BDDCasts shows how to refactor existing code and remove duplicate results using behaviour driven development.