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Hawaii's Aloha on Rails Conference Opens Call for Participation
The Aloha on Rails Conference has opened its Call for Participation. Be a part of this amazing 2 day, single track conference held in Waikiki, Hawaii on October 5-6, 2009. Looking for thought-provoking and informative topics relevant to Rails developers, such as Rails 3.0, alternative databases, deployments, messaging systems, and good old fashioned war stories. Network, share, and learn with Aloha!
Date time suffix format in ruby on rails
Date time suffix format in railsThis is a simple one and usefull for beginners in ruby on rails
Ruby 1.9 Envycasts Released
Just released Ruby 1.9, What you need to know, a two part Envycast staring David A. Black, one of my favorite Ruby authors/teachers. David walks through all the changes you’ll need to know about to upgrade successfully Ruby 1.9.
Project Spotlight: Redis, a fast data-structure database
A short intro to Redis and a list of Redis resources/links.
The problem with compiling Ruby
Some thoughts about problems and possible solutions for compiling Ruby - as it turns out Ruby has quite a few features that, while making it very pleasant to use makes compiling it efficiently a pretty big challenge.
Passing a hash of conditions to find
Turns out there is a much better way to specify your conditions when performing finds than the often used array of conditions
Ruby, pass by value or by reference?
Ruby, does it pass by value or by reference? here
Creating a Twitter Client for OSX in MacRuby
Creating a Twitter Client for OSX in MacRuby - The first part in a series learning how to use MacRuby by creating a basic Twitter client.
blog with lot's of practical snippets around ruby, Rails and such in german
rnotes.bluemars.net I just opened my formerly internal notepad. It contains lot’s of posts in german around ruby, Rails and such seem from a half administrator’s half developer’s point of view. Some of them are aggregations, some came out of my own work.
Rails Test Prescriptions Update Procedure In Place
If you have purchased Rails Test Prescriptions, and want to be able to get updates for the book, look here to see how it’s done. [more inside]
A Collection of Great Tools for the Ruby Developer
I’ve been doing some Ruby and Rails development lately, and have come across a few tools l really liked. So I wrote a blog post about them, which you can read here.
Serve: A Rapid Prototyping Framework for Web Applications
Article and screencast on Serve, a new framework that makes it easy for designers to prototype Rails applications. Read more…
Ruby Proxies for Scale, Performance and Monitoring
Building a high-performance Ruby proxy server is both remarkably simple, and a very powerful technique: intercepting arbitrary data, extending protocols & injecting new functionality, … It’s a wonderful hammer, learn how to use it!
Add jQuery datagrids to your Rails applications
This new Rails plugin makes it easy to add full featured jQuery datagrids to your applications (sorting, pagination, master-details, CRUD, and more).
In the article I've titled Stats-driven ...
In the article I’ve titled Stats-driven lens shopping with Ruby, I wrote a script to move through folders of my photos from a recent vacation, and print some useful stats. I have used these stats to help me purchase my next SLR lens. If this is useful to anyone else I can develop it more. The script is currently written for generated date-based folder names from Canon software.
Dreamy and the DreamHost API
DreamHost recently released an (in progress) API. I created a new gem called “Dreamy” which includes a library and command-line tool to interface with their API. Read more here. Source is on GitHub (where else?)
To AMQP or to XMPP, that is the question
As Ruby developers we are spoiled for choice when it comes to messaging systems. Some are right for the job, some simply aren’t. Even more dangerous is the case of using XMPP (Jabber) where AMQP is actually the better fit. Join me as I ask: To XMPP or to AMQP?
Integrating Flickr into your rails website
Learn in this post how to use the flickr_fu library to show your flickr photos on your rails website or blog.
Ruby tips from me, your idol
I compiled a list of ruby tips that I thought might be helpful and save you some time.
Top 50 Commerical Ruby on Rails Sites
Ever need help justifying the power of Rails to your PHP friends? I do. I was amazed to the caliber of some of the sites that use rails in this list…so were they. Top 50 Commerical Ruby on Rails Sites
Object#extend leaks memory on Ruby 1.9.1
Object#extend should best be avoided till the memory leak in Ruby 1.9.1 is fixed.
Engines in Rails 2.3
Engines in Rails 2.3 gives a brief overview of Rails 2.3’s engine support.
Simple instructions to configure ubuntu server with passenger for nginx
Follow the instructions to get up and running with passenger on nginx, from a new installation of ubuntu server.
Yet Another App Config (for Rails)
I’ve thrown my Rails app-level config library into the ring (on GitHub). Easy installation (template, gem, or plugin) and maintenance (script/generate and script/destroy). I use it in all of my Rails apps.