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A faster Ruby on Windows is possible
In this follow up post, I compare the mswin32 and mingw32 versions of Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 (4 implementations in total). The results are extremely encouraging.
described_routes is Rack middleware
described_routes is Rack middleware - a followup to my post of July 28th which prompted the excellent suggestion to try Rack
Tabbed Navigation for Rails
Light and very flexible solution for Tabbed Navigation, this might not be the ultimate approach, but the best I could come up with.
Comparing the performance of IronRuby, Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9 on Windows
I ran a mini-shootout on Windows, using the latest version of IronRuby that just released, MRI, and KRI.
Only a few tickets left for the Ruby Hoedown (the free Ruby conference)
You’d better register now if you’re going to join us. Hey, it’s free, so you’ve got no excuse not to come! :)
Lockdown 1.1 Released!
Lockdown, an authorization system for Rails 2.x, has just released version 1.1.0.
Rails Summit Latin America 2009
Rails Summit is the largest Ruby and Rails conference in South America, inviting everybody in the continent to attend in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 13th and 14th. 2 full days with 2 parallel tracks and more than 20 international speakers. Real-time translators will be available so the portuguese talks are translated to english as well. Registrations are open already!
Mini Book Review: Ruby Best Practices
In case you’re on the fence about Gregory Brown’s first publication. A mini book review.
JRuby on Android: Return of Ruboto
Charles Nutter put IRB on Android. This is awesome.
Lone Star Ruby Conference 2009: Texas, August 27-29
The third annual Lone Star Ruby Conference (LSRC) is heating up and right around the corner, running for three days, August 27-29 in Austin, TX. LSRC 2009 offers a full day of advanced training on Thursday in addition to the two days of Ruby-packed, dual-track speaking sessions on Friday and Saturday. And, back again for an encore performance, is the author of Ruby, Yukihiro Matsumoto. Cost is $350 for the conference (meals includes), + $300 for the advanced training. However, register before Aug 2 and save $100 on the Conference, and $125 on the training price.
Rails App Template with Cucumber/Rspec/Authlogic implemented and tested.
I got tired of shaving the yak every time I created a new app, so I set up a rails app template to not only install all the plugins I use (cucumber, rspec, resource_controller, authlogic, jrails, etc) but to generate a fully working, tested authentication system with cucumber features and rspec tests. Check out my full blog post on it.
Installing And Using SQLite With Ruby On Windows
Installing And Using SQLite With Ruby On Windows - SQLite is a great little embeddable database engine that’s meant to be self-contained, easy to use and not require configuration. However when I tried to use it in my Ruby code I found that it wasn’t that straight forward getting everything to work, especially if you’re using Ruby on windows.
Interview: Koichi Sasada, creator of YARV, talks about the future of GC and Threading in Ruby 1.9.x
Interview with Koichi Sasada, creator of YARV, about the future of Garbage Collection (and whether a generational GC will make it into 1.9.x) and Threading (is there a future for the GIL?).
APN on Rails 0.3.0 Released
The Rails gem to help make sending push notifications to iPhones has been update to version 0.3.0. This version brings with it support for the Apple Feedback service.
Cucumber meets iPhone
Testing iPhone apps with Ruby and Cucumber.
Heist 0.3.0 released
Heist is an interpreter for R5RS Scheme, written in as little Ruby and as much Scheme as possible. This release adds support for the character, string and vector datatypes, including complete R5RS libraries for each. Heist supports tail call optimisation, macros and first-class continuations and is easily extensible using Ruby.
JVM Call to arms with Cucumbers
Encouraging JVM based languages to try and use the Ruby Cucumber tool using JRuby. Ultimately leading to World domination by our green little friends. Read More
Scaling Your Database Screencasts
When you’ve optimized your SQL and cached as much as you can but your database is still getting overloaded, what is your next option? Not sure? Check out the Scaling Your Database screencasts Part 1 and Part 2.
'mutter' — the tiny command-line interface library with lots of style~
Working on a CLI for your ruby app/library? check out mutter.
Web app theme generator
How to use the web-app-theme generator to create an admin layout in 2 minutes.
Learnivore - screencasts aggregator
A side-project I’ve been cooking: Learnivore.com. Get notified about new screencasts on PragProgs, RailsCasts, PeepCode, EnvyCasts and more via RSS. Full-text search available.
Create ODF documents easily with ODF Report
Check out ODF Report, a gem for generating ODF documents (actually, just .odt for now) using a previously created .odt template and replacing tags. You can use OpenOffice as a report designer!! Really cool…
WindyCityRails early bird registration closing soon
WindyCityRails (a one day Ruby/Rails conference in Chicago on Sept 12, 2009) is only $99 if you register by August 1st. After that, it’s going up to $149. Last year was great, and the schedule this year looks good, too.