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Review of the first two Envycasts
Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer, of Rails Envy Podcast fame are up to something interesting, yet again. They recently started publishing commercial screencasts. In this post I review them.
Numbers for Humans - Humanize for Numeric
Make your numbers human readable: number_with_precision(result.round(2)) == result.humanize
Easy Upload via URL with attachment_fu
Allowing file uploads with attachment_fu is super easy, but I’ve found that users sometimes want to be able to “upload” a file directly from a URL. This saves them the steps of downloading the file, finding it on their computer, uploading it into your app, etc.
Rails 2.2 RC1 and new Envycast + PDF on what's new relased
Rails 2.2 RC1 has been released and the Rails Envy guys put out a new EnvyCast screencast and PDF for download.
More Ruby Style
More Ruby Style: If you can stand more Ruby style discussion, here’s a follow up to last week’s post on the subject.
New Relic releases merb plugin.
New Relic has pre-released a merb plugin for their fantastic ruby performance management service. You can find more on how to install it and what the pre-release limitations are at http://github.com/bkayser/newrelic/wikis
Thinking Sphinx Peepcode PDF
Peepcode has just published a new PDF, which covers both Sphinx and the ActiveRecord plugin Thinking Sphinx in detail.
Mobile - The next "big thing" for Ruby / Rails developers?
Why you’re drawn to mobile development: Rubyists are famous for trying new things, whether it’s Erlang, Haskell, Amazon’s cloud services, etc. Jon Dahl of RailsSpikes looks at why we’re drawn to mobile development and mentions prominent Rails developer Hampton Catlin’s successful iPhone app. Perhaps this post will encourage you to get some iPhone on your résumé? :)
localized_country_select Rails plugin
There’s a Rails plugin “localized_country_select” which stores country codes, not names, in database and supports localization of country codes at Github. It is well documented and has basic test coverage. Thanks to the Rails I18n team was the localization part so simple it almost hurts .)
rbDB: web-based mysql admin with conventions
Dont’t you think phpMyAdmin is old and gray? For Rails Rumble, our team bootstrapped an opensource web-based mysql admin with conventions, some ajax and other cool stuff. More info and a screencast here.
Write RubyCocoa Application that Launches At User Login
How to write a RubyCocoa application that will automatically launch at user login
No Kahuna: Task management service from Ruby
No Kahuna,a cool task management service, is now directly accessible from Ruby with Neoneo the No Kahuna Ruby wrapper. It uses WWW::Mechanize and it’s available as a gem from rubyforge called neoneo.
United Prosperity and Rails to Help Billions of Small Entrepreneurs
There are billions of small entrepreneurs all over the world who need a small loan to start or grow their businesses. However banks will not lend to them without collateral. Most of these small entrepreneurs are poor and have no collateral, thus they are denied access to capital which is so crucial to improving their lives. Read how United Prosperity that has built its site using Ruby on Rails is all set to help billions of small entrepreneurs.
Suspenders
Suspenders is a Rails template by thoughtbot that includes shoulda, factory girl, useful rake tasks, and more.
New Rails Performance Optimization and Deployment Services from FiveRuns
FiveRuns has introduced new services offerings focused on optimizing Rails application performance and deployment readiness. More info here.
Local autocomplete with Rails, Prototype, and script.aculo.us
A Rails helper method for generating local (in-browser) autocompletion to avoid superfluous AJAX calls. It uses script.aculo.us’s Autocompleter.local. Check it out, if you’re interested.
Distributed Logging: Syslog-ng & Splunk
A how-to guide for connecting syslog-ng and Splunk to get your logs, from all over the network into a central Splunk server (Ruby, Nginx, HAproxy, etc!)
Cross-platform Ruby advice
Luis Lavena, the maintainer of the “One Click Installer” and mongrel_service (both for win32), starts a series of posts about multiplatform issues with Ruby code.
Merb 1.0 RC2 released
Merb 1.0 RC2 just got released. : This new release of Merb provides a better Windows support and fix few small bugs. 1.0 Final is expected to be released around the beginning of November.
Quick gradients for your CSS with RMagick
Quick gradients for your CSS with RMagick: I got bored about using Photoshop for that. Here’s a quick tip to generate gradients for your css with rmagick.
Little Known Ways to Ruby Mastery by Jay Fields
The Path to Ruby Mastery Interview Series by Ruby Masters, provides guidance to and answers questions confronting Ruby beginners from across the globe. Today, Jay Fields reveals his secrets!
Ruby on Rails Jr Programmer
OtherInbox is looking to hire an experienced Ruby On Rails Junior Programmer/Tester to join our team. More inside.
Automatic Production Rails
FiveRuns’ Mark Reynolds has posted number two in his series on automating Rails server configuration. Check it out here.
[ANN] A new course - FXRuby, YAML, ActiveRecord with database
RubyLearning announces a new short, intensive, practical, online course that helps you create UI’s using FXRuby and with YAML and ActiveRecord (with Migrations) helps you access a database. Read for full details.