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Matz RubyConf 2008 Keynote notes
I just published notes from the RubyConf 2008 opening keynote by Matz. It was a great opening keynote and these notes are very much a transcription of his slides, but you can get a great idea of the message he was giving to the Ruby community.
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Fixing Symbol not found _rl_filename_completion_function
If you meet the “Symbol not found: _rl_filename_completion_function” error, here’s a solution.
Bort Updated to Rails 2.2
Bort has finally be updated Rails 2.2 along with some more goodies.
Rails-powered Open Source Killer Apps, Anyone?
It has been a while since it imposed itself as The Web Framework, however, there aren’t many open source killer apps powered by Rails… for now, that is.
Capistrano Growl notifications
It’s nice to know how your deploy went. Here’s how to get Growl notifications from Capistrano.
Review: Ruby on Rails 2.2 EnvyCast
Wondering if the Ruby on Rails 2.2 EnvyCast is worth $16? Read my review to get a better idea. Short answer, definitely worth it!
SimplySearchable plugin
SimplySearchable - The main goal of SimplySearchable is to make it easy to do queries on your model by auto-magically creating some named_scope methods for common conditions. This plugin adds a method to the model named list that will find and filter records smartly. Please submit your bugs, requests and feedback at the project’s page on Lighthouse. RDocs are available at http://ridaalbarazi.com/code/simply_searchable/.
Is it curtains for RSpec?
We’ve stopped using RSpec… say Rails development team ENTP. They’re now back to Test::Unit but improved with Jeremy McAnally’s context. Others in the comments suggest shoulda. Is it curtains for RSpec?
Got Yo Back is a cool library with a sil...
Got Yo Back is a cool library with a silly name that lets you specify before and after callbacks for any of your methods.
Gantty: Gantt Charts + Ruby!
Use GanttProject? Like Ruby? Parse your information and have fun with it with Gantty.
Little Known Ways to Ruby Mastery by Guy Naor
The Path to Ruby Mastery Interview Series by Ruby Masters, provides guidance to and answers questions confronting Ruby beginners from across the globe. Today, Guy Naor reveals his secrets!
Ruby Style Guide
The Ruby and Rails style guide has been promoted from the Pathfinder blog to a permanent web page. Please comment to improve the quality and quantity of suggestions.
Tutorial: Authlogic basic setup
Tutorial: Authlogic basic setup. A detailed walk through of setting up Authlogic in a rails app.
GitHub Rebase #2
The second installment of GitHub Rebase is now up! Goes over some new, most watched, and busy projects on the site.
Ruby FFI example using #ffi_lib
Ruby FFI example showing use of #ffi_lib method to specify which FF you’d like to I.
The suits win: "gasm" gets renamed to "logic"
The suits win: “gasm” gets renamed to “logic”.
Automatic Lossless Reduction Of Your Websites Images
Smusher reduces the size of all your images(JPG/PNG) lossless. Typically 10-96% reduction. (folder must be online like public/images) - examples
mocksmtpd: A "mock" SMTP mail server in Ruby
It’s in Japanese, but mocksmtpd is a “mock” SMTP mail server written in Ruby for receiving mail.
Pumpkin on Rails
Pumpkin on Rails - (Belated) Happy Halloween Rails Style. Who says Rails doesn’t scale?
Mack Framework 0.8.1 Released
This week the Mack Framework reached version 0.8.1. Amongst other things in the release there is now support for Portlets. Portlets allow you to build a Mack application and quickly package the ENTIRE application as a gem, and reuse it in another Mack application.
A nasty DataMapper bug?
Cory O’Daniel claims to have found a massive flaw^H^H^H^H glitch in DataMapper 0.9.6 that results in 90 SQL queries being performed for just one simple lookup. Not being a DataMapper expert myself - is there any merit in this bug? [more inside]
Two Shoulda best practices
I’ve been bit by a Shoulda subtlety lately. This resulted in Two Shoulda best practices