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RubyDeveloper.Info
RubyDeveloper.Info is an open source Ruby community that has started off with nearly no features. It’s premised instead on letting the community develop the features it wants for itself. You can find the source code on Github and should join the Google group, if you’re interested in helping out. Finally, the site is invite only, but feel free to email me for an invite: foysavas@gmail.com
Satish Talim - Ruby Evangelist and Facilitator
Satish Talim is an established web site development expert (over 30 years of experience in the industry!) based in Pune, India. He’s most recognized in the Ruby community for his ongoing work with his Ruby Learning group of sites. He’s also built up a strong following on Twitter.
Phusion Passenger 2.0.6 released
This is a minor bugfix release. Please read the Phusion blog for the announcement.
Top Ruby Merbists to follow on Twitter
We need some Ruby and Merb love! Who do you think are some of the Top Ruby Merbists to tweet with? Post your list as comments at the “Top Ruby Merbists to follow on Twitter” blog post.
Ruby on Rails - Are you a Member?
Often in a enterprise, ActiveDirectory is used to verify access to application. Now using a simple library, and ruby_net_ldap you can verify that the user is a member of a group. Very fast, and very easy. Goes well with mongrel NTLM authentication to give you applications that are easy to administer in a Windows domain/enterprise environment.
Single Signon in Windows using NTLM and Mongrel
For enterprise apps, you often want a seamless experience to the user. Needing to maintain multiple user-name and passwords interferes in having the seamless experience. Windows IIS offers this using NTLM. Now using Mongrel and a additional filter, you can have rails application support single sign-on. Mongrel-NTLM passes the users windows login directly to your application.
How-to: Easy Upload via URL with Paperclip
I’ve been using Paperclip to handle file uploads lately, and I wanted to be able to accept file “uploads” via URL.
sinatra-gen makes starting a sinatra app easy
Sinatra-gen (http://github.com/quirkey/sinatra-gen/) uses Dr. Nic’s rubigen to easily generate a skeleton of a sinatra app with a single command. It has a bunch of different options, incuding the ability to vendor/ sinatra and generate a single file app.
Is *anyone* using Merb?
So Merb is all the rage, and I’m honestly pretty excited by having a viable alternative to Rails. I’m so, so tired of tracking down problems in my code and digging through the unnecessarily magikal Rails APIs. So I go off and start investigating Merb, but guess what…I can’t find even one site that claims to use it. If Merb is so great, where are the sites that are built with it? If you know of one, please post a comment here. Thanks.
Deploying JRuby on Rails Applications to Geronimo Application Server
Summary of deploying ruby(jruby) on rails applications to the apache geronimo application server. Read more…
Evolution - Hill Climbing Polygon Generation with RMagick
Redirecting Typo blog feeds to Feedburner with Apache
A blog post describing how to use apache Rewrite rules to ensure that all of the subscribers to your Typo blog are dealt with by Feedburner.
GUIfy your Ruby apps with Shoes
Learn how to GUIfy your Ruby apps with Shoes with the latest RubyAdvent article!
Discoveries on ruby metaprogramming with benchmarks
I posted some info on meta programming benchmarks and what is the best way to dynamically define a method. (more to come)
Ruby Bat Signal
Help a fellow Rubyist convince his superiors that choosing Ruby over Java or Groovy is the best choice. Respond to the Ruby Bat Signal.
API / Mashup competition with $10k in prizes
Should be easy to win this using Rails - 3scale opened a $10k developer competition for APIs and Mashups with deadlines in Feb/March next year. All you need to do is create a web service and sign it up or mashup some of the data from existing providers. Details are here - API/Mashup Competition.
Arabs who are interested in Merb and Merb-book
So many developers from various countries had corresponded to Matt Aimonetti’s article on open merb book, and an early version of the book is out there. [more inside]
Merbday Atlanta Presentations posted
Merbday Atlanta Presentations are online. I am still working on wycats keynote, but will be updating that presentation as well in the next day or so.
Meet Dataset: The Fixture-Killing, Data-Loading Framework
Tired of Rails fixtures? Dataset gives you an easy, declarative method for constructing sets of data to be used in testing. It is a data loading framework. This is in contrast to Machinist and Factory Girl which focus only on making it easy to create new models for testing, but have no solution for loading sets of data.
Future proofing your Ruby code for 1.9.1
Dr Nic has written an excellent roundup of how to future proof your Ruby code using multiruby pending the release of Ruby 1.9.1.
memecircus -- ruby, rails, merb neta news site
memecircus is an aggregate of news and topics that are of interest to the Ruby community. Links mined from Twitter are shown and sorted alongside related blog posts.
Debugging ruby applications under Phusion Passenger
socket-debugger - A simple Rails plugin to facilitate using the ruby debugger under Passenger applications.
Ruby AST for fun and profit
An AST to a program is what the DOM is to a web-page - a hands on look at working with the Ruby’s Abstract Syntax Tree and the projects that are using it. Ever wanted to translate Ruby to Lolcode?
Reflections on the Ruby shootout
An important update</a> about The Great Ruby Shootout.