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Canonical URL Rails Plugin
Canonical URLs are the new hints that let you specify a single URL as ‘canon’ for search engines to increase your search index coherency. Implement it in your Rails apps with the new canonical-url plugin.
Want to change the default response format for a request?
Maybe you are creating an external api to your app and want to allow people to type http://api.blah.com/users and get xml back instead of html, this post shows you how in only four simple lines of code.
Intro to Rails class - Washington DC - Feb 27-Mar 1 2009
The developers at Rails consultancy Intridea have started Intridea University. Their first class is Introduction to Rails and runs February 27 through March 1. Adam Bair and Joe Grossberg will be teaching.
New Rubinius Experiments Yield 4x Performance Increase
You thought Rubinius was dead? You’re wrong! Brian Ford reports on some new tweaks that have increased performance by over 4x. Update: Make that a 2x increase. Sorry!
Unobtrusive deleting in Rails (with js-free fallbacks)
Unlike the link_to helper, uses no inline javascript. nifty.
iPhoneFlow - RubyFlow for iPhone Developers
My latest release is iPhoneFlow - it’s just like RubyFlow, but for iPhone developers. If iPhone development is your schtick, come join us. It’s still early so you could get on top of the leaderboard still ;-)
ATLRUG - Feb Presentations online
The February presentations to ATLRUG are now online… Rein Henrichs Expressing some valentines day sentiments for your relationship with ruby and Andrew Stone covering his authorization framework Lockdown
Writing a compiler in Ruby
The 14th part of my series. This part is about handling variable length functions
Rails Envy Podcast #66
The Rails Envy Podcast #66 was just released, bringing you both news and short interviews from Acts As Conference. We were lucky enough to talk with Yehuda Katz, Nathaniel Talbott, Jim Weirich, Dan Benjamin, Steven Bristol, and Robert Dempsey to name a few.
tab_tab: Rails plugin for easy tabbed navigation
I’ve been meaning to post this one for a while. You can get it from GitHub. Patches welcome!
Setting up Ruby, Rails, and mod_passenger on a VPS
A blog post that shows how to install and deploy rails on a simple Debian 5.0 VPS
Twitter2RSS
Read your tweets via RSS, including @replies, direct messages and avatars.
CouchFoo: An ActiveRecord styled API to CouchDB
CouchDB is a document-orientated database designed to work in distributed environments. Its use within the rails community is starting to pickup and now CouchFoo provides an ActiveRecord styled API for interacting with it. There have been only a few minor deviations from the ActiveRecord API so it should be possible to migrate applications with ease. The library also provides extra methods to access functionality specific to CouchDB.
methopara-0.2.0 Released
methopara is a gem that provides Method#parameters only for Ruby-1.9.1
Introducing CloudOps Rails Hosting
CloudOps is a Rails hosting service utilizing Amazon’s EC2 infrastructure. You get dedicated instances which you can manage as little or as much as you like (you have root). Each instance utilizes our custom, optimized Rails stack with MySQL, and load balanced Mongrel behind Apache. You are supported by the folks who developed the CloudOps platform, and there are no hidden costs behind each hosting plan.
encryptor - OpenSSL wrapper
A simple wrapper for the standard ruby OpenSSL library http://github.com/shuber/encryptor
Configuring Sinatra on DreamHost
Setting up Sinatra on DreamHost ended up being a pain for me. I couldn’t find any info on the web about it. I hope this helps out other Ruby noobs like myself.
LDAP authenticion on rails with AuthLogic
http://lbi.lostboys.nl/blog/artikelen/ruby-on-rails-ldap-integration don’t worry, it’s all in English :)
Remarkable now supports all ActiveRecord validations
http://www.nomedojogo.com/2009/02/10/remarkable-now-supports-all-activerecord-validations/. Good times! It has been just one week since I announced Diego Carrion and José Valim as members of the Remarkable core team and we already put some effort into making a new shiny release! We are going to cover what’s new on this Remarkable version, step by step.
Ruby GUI Survey : Results
Results from the 2008 Survey of Ruby GUI usage with summary findings and a full report and analysis.
Regex in a Nutshell
I’ve just updated my cheat sheet on regular expressions now featuring more details on Ruby, C and Obj-C as well as some previously ignored PCRE specialties. Looks best if you have a color printer :-)
Ruby Lightning Talks from the London users group
Last night’s LRUG meeting consisted of 8 fast paced talks on a variety of topics, including packaging gems for Debian, sending IM messages with XMPP, a quick intro to ruby-debug, RubyGame, smoke testing, Twitter bots and statistics in Ruby via the power of R. Read the Ruby Lightning Talks.