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HTTP PubSub: Webhooks & PubSubHubbub with Ruby
A look at the emerging Webhooks & PubSubHubbub HTTP callback implementations and how they enable easy, distributed, web-scale PubSub.. with Ruby code samples and example of new PubSubHubbub Ruby gem.
RubyTu.be, a community driven Ruby video & screencast index
RubyTu.be is opening its doors to the community today. The goal is to provide an accurately tagged, comment enabled, and searchable index of all Ruby related video and screencasts. Do you publish Ruby video content? Post a link back to your content and add to the 300+ videos that are already indexed.
20+ Rubyists are using Sinatra – Do you?
Understand how, where and why many Rubyists today, are using Sinatra. 20+ Rubyists like Peter Cooper, Aaron Quint and many more give us some insights.
Display GitHub ChangeLog Inside your Application
This Tutorial will show you how to display a list of Github changes inside your Application, read it on Mendable.com.
s3ify gem - put the assets for a HTML email online
S3ify is a command line tool to make life easier when putting the assets for a HTML email onto S3. It converts any local image references in your HTML and then uploads it all onto S3 for you.
Dynamic Reports for Ruby and Rails
The dynamic reports gem was created to fill a HUGE hole that we felt existed in the Ruby community - the ability to QUICKLY create stylized admin reports and charts for people to use to view key metrics and data. Includes charting ability via the Google Charts API. Follow on Github or Read about on RubyForge (rdoc forthcoming) Enjoy!
Microscopy software implemented in Ruby:...
Microscopy software implemented in Ruby: The RCUK Nanorobotics is finishing soon and here are some fresh demonstration videos. The software was implemented using Ruby-1.8.6, Qt4-QtRuby, HornetsEye, Distributed Ruby, and libJIT.
Ruby Hoedown CFP ending soon!
The CFP for the Ruby Hoedown (the FREE Southern U.S. regional Ruby conference) is closing soon, so get those proposals in. Also, don’t forget to check out the Hoedown Heist; get free stuff for coming (and getting others to come) to a free conference!
Aloha on Rails Hawaii Conference Has Five Days Left for Super Early Bird Registration
Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference, has just five more days of Super Early Bird Registration. Register now to take advantage of the lowest ticket price! Come join Top Speakers at the premier destination event for Ruby on Rails. Aloha on Rails is a Low Cost, High Value education, investment, and vacation. The conference, held Oct 4-6 2009, features a one day tutorial and two day conference for three days in paradise!
The Ruby Toolbox updates
Read about the latest changes in The Ruby Toolbox - the catalog for Ruby libraries - including feeds and project news.
Relieving the Pain of Controller Tests
Controller tests area a necessary pain, these are some of the techniques and tools we use to make controller tests nicer to work with.
10+ Rubyists using Sinatra on Twitter
A list of Rubyists using Sinatra micro-web framework and on Twitter. Can you suggest some more?
RubyTrends Update
Just visit the My Account page at RubyTrends to see what has been added since your last login. It’s an easy way to keep up with the new additions. Ever accidentally vote for something? You can remove your vote now as well! Thanks for the feedback, more updates coming soon!
Outperforming Rack::Utils and CGI escape and unescape by orders of magnitude
Rack::Utils and CGI escape and unescape performance boost URLEscape provides these two methods as a C extension, suitable for use on ruby 1.8.6-8 and 1.9.1+; tested on linux, XP, and Vista.
Measuring & Optimizing for I/O Performance
Designing your application to work around IO bottlenecks is tricky business. A look at measuring & optimizing for I/O performance with iostat + a refresher on disk latencies and the underlying bottlenecks.
ConceptAlbum - a Rails Photo Album Plugin
ConceptAlbum is a zero administration Rails photo album plug-in with an attractive minimal design. Install the plug-in, point it at your photos folder and navigate to /concept_album and you have a full working photo album! Includes a flash slide-show to add to your main site layout as well. Give it a whirl, feedback appreciated.
Faye 0.1.0 released
Faye is an implementation of the Bayeux Comet protocol as Rack middleware, including a JavaScript client. I’m putting out a very early version and need help scaling the server across multiple Ruby processes so I can use it with Passenger.
SexpPath - Structural Pattern Matching for Ruby
SexpPath is a library that defines a neat DSL for pattern matching against S-Expressions, for instance the ruby Abstract Syntax Tree. Kind of like XPath or Regular Expressions for your code.
Fat Free CRM 0.9.2 released
Fat Free CRM: open source Ruby on Rails-based customer relationship management platform.
Simplifying AJAX Form Requests with a Standard JSON Object
Make common callback scenarios from ajax requests easy with Rails and jQuery. Read more.
How to create a Sinatra Web Service
An excellent, quick tutorial for Ruby beginners on how to create a “Sinatra Web Service”.
Ready for use: SimpleDB DataMapper Adapter
SimpleDB DM Adapter is worth a try next time you are creating a simple project, we would love feedback about the DM adapter, and it would be great to get some other people contributing to the project.
A Ruby library for Mechanical Turk
RTurk - Super simple library for creating external page HIT’s