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Hostname middleware
How to know which server has sent back the response during development with multiple servers behind a load balancer.
The Most Handy NetBeans Shortcuts For Ruby Development
The Most Handy NetBeans Shortcuts For Ruby Development - just a quick list of all the shortcuts that I’ve been finding handy while using NetBeans for Ruby development.
Reports of the Rails Envy podcast's death have been greatly exaggerated.
The Rails Envy podcast will be re-launching in a couple of weeks so stay subscribed.
Next in Our Series on Key-Value Stores: Tokyo Cabinet!
Need the scoop? Existing stuff just not doin’ it for ya? Live on the blog, courtesy of Mr. @wyhaines. Check it out!
New version of sinatra-gen released
sinatra-gen 0.4 makes creating sinatra apps as easy as: sinatra-gen myapp get:/ get:/login post:/login get:/secret --middleware=rack/cache --heroku
Securely store passwords with bcrypt-ruby; now compatible with JRuby and Ruby 1.9
When hashing passwords in your Ruby web applications, you can increase security by using bcrypt-ruby.
Drag multiple items
I would like to be able to select multiple items (using control-key), and then drag all selected items to a droppable. My current need is for a photo site, do drag multiple thumbnails to an album to add them to that album, where the number of thumbnails is so large that dragging every one individually would be too tedious. Could any one suggest me how can we achieve in rails? posted here
New RubyFlow Design + Features
Yes, RubyFlow is sporting a new design - shaking things up. 2 main new features: 1) profile editing, 2) posts and comments show avatars based on your Gravatar. To have the avatar show, you need to edit your profile and supply your Gravatar-enabled e-mail. There are a few more minor tweaks also.
Ruby5 News Podcast
Nathaniel Bibler and I just released the first episode of Ruby5, a twice-weekly audio podcast covering the latest news in the Ruby and Rails community.
Radiant Database Mailer Extension saves e-mail attachments using paperclip
If you’re using Radiant CMS and need to save the emails you get to the database, you can use Aissac’s Database-Mailer Extension, which, as of today, saves the e-mail attachments using paperclip. They can be downloaded at a later time from the details page of each record. Check out the source code on github or read the installation notes on the extension’s official page.
Rails authorization with ActiveRecord finders and current_user
Analysis paralysis: access control is an article exploring custom authorization (“access control”) in your Rails app using techniques you already know: ActiveRecord associations and finders, current_user. Inherited Resources is also on display to minimize mistakes and keep code standard and clean.
HIGH VOLTAGE
HIGH VOLTAGE is a new Rails engine from thoughtbot for static pages.
job_fu - updated
Web application often need a background processing solution. JobFu recently got updated with schedule jobs, yml file for configure workers and there priority span.
Whois: an intelligent pure Ruby whois client
This week I released a brand new Whois client written in pure Ruby and compatible with Ruby, REE and MacRuby. Check it out here.
Testing rails generators with Cucumber
How to use Cucumber to test generators behavior
Introducing Ken, The easy way to query Freebase!
Ken is an intuitive Ruby API for accessing Freebase. It wraps the Metaweb Architecture to smart Ruby Objects. Check it out here: http://github.com/michael/ken/tree/master
Backup shell script for my Rails applications
http://www.railsgeek.com/2009/8/11/backup-shell-script-for-my-rails-applications Today I’d like to show you the optimal backup shell script for all of my Rails Applications. Nobody love to setup the backup workflow, but all want to sleep well and have their data duplicated somewhere like Amazon S3 :) Here the script who take care of yours backup process
Rubyology Podcast #83: Ruby IDE/Editor Deathmatch
Roundtable discussion on Ruby IDEs and text editors. Four OpenRain developers debate the pros and cons of different IDE and editor tools for day-to-day Ruby application development. [more inside]
Ruby FFI, Mingw32 RubyInstaller, Windows. So easy, a cavem... Well, see for yourself.
FFI + RubyInstaller = awesomeness out of the box
Scheduling in Ruby
Scheduling in Ruby Scheduling tasks is something we all need to know to do, for it’s quite common in applications…
How much faster is Ruby on Linux?
In a previous article I compared the performance of Ruby on Windows, built through Microsoft Visual C++ and GCC. The numbers for the MinGW version were very impressive. So the question now becomes, how does its performance compare to that of Ruby on Linux? Let’s find out.
Top Ruby on Rails Job Blog
I am a London based Ruby on Rails Recruitment Specialist. I work with over 40 clients in the UK that use Ruby/Ruby on Rails as their main development language/framework. I created the Ruby Pays blog for you to get info on hot Rails jobs, the current Rails job market, and job hunting tips, etc. A new market update is provided at the end of every calendar month along with job postings as soon as they “go live”.
Looking towards stackable environments for Ruby daemons
Wrapping up a daemon-kit 0.2 release and looking at rack for inspiration for building stackable environments for Ruby daemon processes.
Shippinglogic released. Easily integrate with the various shipping web services.
This weekend I released shippinglogic. The goal is to make integrating with the various shipping services (FedEx, UPS, etc.) simple and straightforward.