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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
String is a number?
A quick extension to the Object class which adds an is_numeric? method to test for numericalness.
Getting to grips with git - Part 3: rebasing
The third installment in my Getting to grips with git series. I introduce the potentially confusing concept of rebasing.
Improve RI and Page IRB output
with the latest Hirb. Would you like IRB to automatically page long output? Would you like an improved RI that let’s you effortlessly select multiple methods to read up on? Then read all about it.
Improved ruby mode for JEdit
If you use JEdit for your Ruby needs you should get improved ruby mode and get some cool color scheme.
Interview with author Gregory Brown
Author Gregory Brown talks to RubyLearning about his book “Ruby Best Practices” in this brief interview.
Installing latest Nginx 0.7.6 regardless of the Nginx 0.6.3 by mod_rails defaults
Nginx 0.7.6 with mod_rails But, what’s happen, guys, I want a latest nginx stable instead out-of-date 0.6 branch. So, I show you how I use two of version nginx (stable 0.6.3 by modrails defaults and latest 0.7.6). You can use one of them on the yours server.
How Not To Create a Rails Plugin
there is an article which describes some mistakes you might have done on your way to create a new rails plugin.
Set your Rails Environment Globally
Learn how to Set your Rails Environment Globally on a per-server basis, so you are not required to do it for each command you want to run.
[ANN] Promo of book Ruby Best Practices
Promotion of the book “Ruby Best Practices” by author Gregory Brown is scheduled from 30 June to 2 July 2009. Click here for all the details. It’s free and you stand a chance to win a copy of the book.
Fun with RMagick
Fun with RMagick is a blog post illustrating how to use Ruby to automate common image manipulation tasks like adding a transparent copyright statement.
Setting a User’s Locale Based upon Domain Name In Rails
Learn how to set a visitor’s locale based upon the domain name of your website.
Rails Underground, list of speakers
Just published the full list of speakers for Rails Underground, London, 24-25th July. It’s brilliant! Full details of each topic and the schedule will be posted shortly!
Eventful 1.0 release
Eventful is a very small event handling library based on Observable that adds named events, block listeners and event bubbling to your objects.
Sass and Less
In Sass and Less, Nathan Weizenbaum tells us how Sass is going to change in response to the strong reaction to Less CSS. (Think: optional brackets, and more.)
Rails: Unobtrusive and i18n JavaScript window.confirm
How many times do you heard you should separate content from behavior? Never? Hmmm don’t try to cheat me.. So, why do you still use :confirm option for link_to helper? Here a little snippet to archive our goal, and as extra bonus, we get it i18n.
Phusion Passenger 2.2.3 "Bug Fix Edition" released
This release’s focus is on bug fixes and improving polish. A lot of bugs have been fixed. Please check the announcement for details.
evri_rpx - allows 3rd-party auth from Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc via RPXNow
Want to quickly integrate with RPXNow’s third-party authentication service? Check out evri_rpx 1.0.0 on Github!
LESS, a leaner CSS
variables, mixins, operations and nested rules with css syntax: http://lesscss.org, also check out this post for the story behind it.
Ajax file uploads in Rails (screencast)
Ajax doesn’t support file uploads, but you can fake it. This screencast will show you how.
Testing Rails with Rack::Test
Fancy trying Bryan Helmkamp’s new framework agnostic testing framework with your Rails app? Read Testing Rails with Rack::Test. It’s really easy.