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Gem this is now a gem command
Gem-this 0.2.1, the completely unobtrusive gem creation tool is even easier to user now. Go to your existing lib, and just type gem this. Done.
Mini irb and script/console
This post explains how to roll your own irb or script/console in less than 10 lines. You’ll get enhanced irb-like autocompletion, persistent readline history and error handling.
Help make Paperclip a better place, for you and for me
This is a Paperclip I18n call to arms, please help vote for I18n to be added into paperclip.
DataMapper Oracle adapter
DataMapper Oracle adapter has been created and now DataMapper (alternative ORM to ActiveRecord) can be used with Oracle databases both on MRI 1.8.6, Ruby 1.9.1 and JRuby 1.3.
Sunspot 0.9 Released
Version 0.9 of Sunspot, a library for expressive search for Ruby objects using Solr, has been released. Read about all the awesome new features.
FutureRuby Slides from Cucumbered presentation
A talk about Cucumber which covers what Cucumber is, why to use use it and how to use it. Has an example of using Cucumber to test a IPhone application. Cucumbered
RVideo for video processing and inspection
Usage scenario of video inspection using RVideo. Check it here.
easy prototype helper for gmail style "Loading..." box
Easy loading notice plugin based on prototype and meant to use with Rails. It could be easily adapted to any situation.
Bond - From Irb With Completion Love
This post introduces the gem Bond. Bond is on a mission to make custom autocompletion easy for methods, arguments and more for irb and other readline-like environments.
Inquiry - manage FAQs for your apps
Inquiry has just entered open beta! Check out the blog post or head over to http://inquiryapp.com and sign up for a free account!
Sum: Easy budgeting over email
Sum is an open source budgeting application backed by Sinatra.
Rubyfeed: RSS to Ruby posts, forums and jobs at one place
Rubyfeed.com is the new RSS reader of good Ruby and Rails blogs, forums and job listings. Please check it out. Not every good source is included so far, we are working at it. Search and other features will be added to. Please grab our RSS and let us know what you think. You may also suggest a link or feed and it will be considered.
Polymorphic Associations in MongoMapper
There’s a good chance many Rubyists are familiar with John Nunemaker’s new MongoDB ORM in the hood, MongoMapper. So far we could not do one to many Polymorphic Associations between documents, but that was until yesterday. Take a look at what you can now do with it.
Losing Faith in Ruby
Losing Faith The problem with Ruby is that it’s been in this kind of finishing phase pretty much ever since I started using it (2004).
JRuby, Rails, Rake and Cron for Automation
JRubyist Dan Tylenda-Emmons wrote an article about combining jruby, rails, rake and cron into a powerful automation tool set. This technique is both useful and pragmatic. Never worry again about running a periodic process. Let the system do the work.
Fat Free CRM 0.9.4 released
Fat Free CRM is open source Ruby on Rails-based customer relationship management platform.
Customizing The Rails Forms Builder
There is an article that describes the way how you could customize the rails form builder in a civilized way
A Ruby command-line prompt with timeout and countdown
A better Ruby command-line prompt featuring timeout and countdown for usability.
Rack::Cache and Lighttpd+FCGI Problem
There is a problem with Rack::Cache together with Lighttpd and Fast-cgi. Every page that gets requested returns the same cache page. A fix for this on my blog
I Have Seen The FutureRuby, And It Is Amazing - Part 1
Summary of Day 1 from the FutureRuby conference that took place in Toronto on July 11-12, 2009.
Ask Rubyflow: Tutorials on setting up optimized Memcached for Ruby/Rails?
Is there a thorough tutorial anywhere on how to setup memcached and the ruby memcache library? (e.g. libmemcached vs. memcache-client, etc) Recommended plugins, etc? self
Unified Rails Logging with Syslog-ng
Blue Box Group Hosting has a great tutorial on their blog about unifying all of your logs to a central server. Check it out!
Rails delegate method
Delegation is a feature Rails introduced in it’s 2.2 version, and in my opinion are quite useful and somehow something we don’t see too much around.