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Noomii.com: The Buddy System for your Life
Noomii.com is a website that helps any two people achieve their life goals using a process called pair coaching. Pair coaching is a type of life coaching, which normally involves paying a professional mentor to help with life goals, achievement, etc. The site is built using Ruby on Rails and in this interview, RubyLearning talks to Kurt Shuster the CEO and Co-Founder of Noomii.com.
scRUBYt! Get Plugins!
A look at the biggest change so far in the upcoming gem release (currently available in the skimr branch on github though) of scRUBYt! Now with the the new plugin architecture for output, you can build a web spider/scraper and export the results to any format you want. And it’s not much more difficult that specifying before filters on a controller in Rails. I’m hoping we can shortly release a similar scheme for the actual browsing engine so people can substitute out Mechanize for whatever alternatives they might like (such as Firefox for AJAX scraping like in the current release).
Backup Your WordPress Blog to Amazon S3 using Ruby
Use the wordpress-s3-backup Ruby Rake script to backup your WordPress blog – both database and site – to Amazon S3.
Bridging MRI, JRuby & Rubinius with FFI
A hands-on example of using the new FFI gem developed by Wayne Meissner to interface with native (C) extensions in a uniform way for Ruby MRI, JRuby and Rubinius.
LaterDude - Calendar plugin for Rails with i18n support
If you need a calendar helper plugin with i18n support, you might want to check out LaterDude. LaterDude is heavily inspired by Jeremy Voorhis’/Geoffrey Grosenbach’s popular calendar_helper plugin and can - with a few small adjustments - be used as a drop-in replacement.
iPhone App
Ruby API Lookup has just released. It allows you to easily browse or search the Ruby Core and Ruby Standard Library RDoc documentation on your iPhone or iPod touch.
Date and Time validation for Rails 2.x with validates_timeliness
For those who need flexible date and time validation in Rails 2.x with I18n support you now have validates_timeliness. Its been around for a while but I thought I better pimp it.
a href="http://genlinux.blogspot.com/2008/11/ajax-image-galleries-rubyonrails.html">AjaxEffect/a>
Are u looking for something like image slideshow in rubyonrails,then u can try with lightview which comes with prototype framework or u can go for Phatfusion which come with mootools. [more inside]
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validates_as_hostname_label
Easily validate your users’ custom subdomains. http://github.com/shuber/validates_as_hostname_label
3 tips on how to become a better ruby programmer
How to become a better ruby programmer. My article is good for newbies, but maybe also for some of the journeymen out there.
BrightBox Releases New Passenger Ubuntu Package; Starts Sale
John Leach of Brightbox (Rails hosting company) has announced the release of a new Ubuntu package for Passenger & Apache. I’ve used it on my Linode (sorry BB!) to get a Rails stack up and running in a few minutes. BrightBox has also announced the start of a 50% off sale for the rest of January - good if you need Rails (and other Rack-based frameworks?) hosting in Europe, I’d say.
Validating Non-ActiveRecord Models in Rails
Neeraj has put together a cool demonstration of validating non-ActiveRecord models (but using AR validations) in Rails. This could be very useful!
git ready: git tips for the noob to the guru
Need a daily git fix? Learn a little bit about git and how to harness its awesomeness at http://gitready.com
Getting Started With Rails Testing Guide Is Now Available
I’m pleased to announce that the getting started guide, conveniently titled “Getting Started With Rails Testing” is now available for download at the Rails Prescriptions site. It starts with an empty Rails application and walks through the first couple of feature additions, adding tests for controllers, models, views, and basic security. Download, read, enjoy, tell all your friends, let me know what you think.
How to protect downloads but still have nginx serve the files
An article on using X-Accel-Redirect to send files using nginx while still controlling authorisation within Rails
hattr_accessor - attributes for your hash
Allows you to define attr_accessors that reference members of a hash. See http://github.com/shuber/hattr_accessor for more information.
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