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irb & script/console tips
Thoughtbot has put together some irb (interactive Ruby) and script/console (for Rails) tips.
Pocket Rails - Rails Docs on iPhone
Ruby on Rails documentation formatted for the iPhone
Ruby 1.9.1 Release Candidate delayed
Until the 30th Dec: read the announcement.
Yehuda Katz talks to RubyLearning participants
Yehuda Katz gives many Ruby insights to the participants of the RubyLearning courses in this interesting interview.
HTML Scraping with scRUBYt! for Fun and Profit
An introductory article to web scraping in Ruby with scRUBYt!
Ruby Ref- Ruby documentation on the iPhone
RubyRef’s a cool iPhone app which lets you see all of Ruby’s documentation and star the classes/methods you use most!
Unattended Passenger / Ruby Enterprise Installation on Ubuntu 8
A script / set of commands that show how to install Phusion Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu.
CloudKit 0.9 Released
CloudKit is an Open Web JSON Appliance implemented as Rack middleware. The 0.9 gem is out today and provides fully discoverable, RESTful, versioned JSON storage with integrated OpenID and OAuth.
Geokit 1.2 released: Gem + plugin, Rails 2.2.2 ready
Geokit is now separated into a Gem (geokit-gem) and a Rails plugin (geokit-rails). You can use the gem separately. Everything is Rails 2.2.2 tested, and has many small updates/fixes. [more inside]
Understanding Ruby Blocks, Procs and Lambdas
Start learning how to take full advantage of Blocks, Procs and Lambas within Ruby by reading the following tutorial:
Rack-based Session Stores on Rails
Access Rails sessions on any Rack applications.
Rails/Webapp Performance Optimization (Part 1) - Measurement
An overview of some of the tools used to profile and benchmark Rails applications, and some commentary on their use. Part 1.
Merb_editorkicker plugin - invoke your favorite editor on error page
I have released merb_editorkicker plugin 0.2.0. This is a Merb plug-in which enables you to invoke your favorite editor such as Emacs, Aptana, NetBeans and so on instead of TextMate when you click line number link on Merb error page. I believe this helps Merb developers who are using editors other than TextMate. See README.txt for details.
Lite Fixtures
A cool addition on top of standard Rails Fixtures.
thoughtbot is filled with vim and vigor
The crew at thoughtbot share some of their vim tips.
Dreaming of a Ruby Christmas
A cool perl-camel like Ruby Christmas tree - hooray for the XMas season!
How to copy folders to a git branch
Easily copy folders and files to other Git branches with Grancher. Perfect for GitHub Pages!
Announcing Canticore: An Unorthodox Take on Blogging Engines.
Canticore is a blogging engine that is – very slowly – being written in Ruby. It has several ordinary, expected features, and one very exciting one. Check out the announcement.
roadtrippr has relaunched it's ruby on rails based iPhone web-app
I’m very proud to announce that my ruby on rails website - roadtrippr.com has relaunched it’s own iPhone webapp. Built using Ruby on Rails, it allows people to add their favorite local road trip destinations, and search for new places to visit when out on the road. You can read all about it here, and check out some screenshots.
Ruby reflection
Want to know more about ruby reflection? check the first post of this series
Read the Source, Luke
Read The Source, Luke: A Reader’s Guide To Browsing Rails Source
Cool Trick for ActiveSupport StringInquirer in Rails 2.2
Use StringInquirer for cool stuff.
Ruby Graphs and Java Monitoring with JRuby
Nick Sieger, shows you how easy it is to use JRuby to mix and match both Ruby and Java tools to quickly create a simple memory monitoring program.
Sinatra: 29 Links and Resources (and growing)
On Ruby Inside we’ve just run Sinatra: 29 Links and Resources, but the comments are filling up with extra apps and links to check out. If you want to get on the Sinatra bandwagon, this is the place to start!
Rails, Ajax and jQuery
How to make Rails and jQuery do AJAX job for your application