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Should http://guides.rails.info/ replace the official Ruby on Rails Wiki?
The ongoing hackfest at http://guides.rails.info/ to create up to date and very in depth documentation on the various components of Rails is quickly becoming a valuable resource while the official wiki quickly grows out of date with stale information and dead links. Is it time for an official wiki hackfest to bring it up to snuff or is it something that should be laid to rest?
The complete steps to install Merb and DataMapper
If you want to install Merb and DataMapper with RugyGems, you should not do it, because Merb requires DataMapper 0.9.6 or highier, but only 0.9.5 is releasted officially. So you should install them from source, but it is difficult to perform, so I wrote how to install them from source: The complete steps to install Merb and DataMapper from source.
Date Range String Conversions
Make use of date range string conversions similar to the string conversions used for dates and times.
MerbCamp Outpost in London
MerbCamp Outpost, gathering of Rubyists who are going to watch live webcasts from MerbCamp in San Diego on Oct. 12th, organized London Ruby community. [more inside]
Famous Ruby Personalities: Who do you recommend?
RubyLearning salutes the Famous Ruby Personalities that have helped Ruby developers and enthusiasts have fun, joy and be happy while programming! Rock Stars, Rising Stars in the Ruby Community - who do you recommend?
Hierarchy of class and metaclass in Ruby 1.9
Hierarchy of class and metaclass in Ruby 1.9 (and Smalltalk) (in Japanese). Red direction represents ‘is-a’ relation. Black direction represents ‘extends’ relation. Gray represents singleton class.
My first Rails application
Blogging about my first Rails application experience and the problems I encountered.
acts_as_audited gains parent record tracking
I extended acts_as_audited with some additional functionality for tracking the parent of the audited record. Not an everyday use case, but a good fit for PowerDNS on Rails.
Presents for Her
Unique Gifts For Her Offers Wide Variety OF Gifts For Women, Mother, Wife, Sisters,Girlfriends On Different Occasions & Festivals Like Birthday, Christmas, Or More,To Celebrate & Express Your Feelings.
Deploying a bundled merb app
Matt Aimonetti blogger mainly known because of his Rails on the Run website, started a new blog called: merbist.com and posted an interesting post about deploying a bundled/frozen merb app. [more inside]
Rails for PHP Developers News
The Rails for PHP Developers website has been updated with several new articles including empty values, learning type casting, and using blocks. The PHP to Ruby Reference has also been expanded with more functions.
I LOVE HAMBURGERS
I love hamburgers so much that I opened up my own hamburger joint…it’s called “Johnny ROckets!”
Understanding Ruby Singletons
Yet another look into the world of the Ruby singleton class, taken from my Accelerated Ruby workshop.
Performance Tuning Rails
How to do performance tuning on a Rails app after taking care of database performance.
Last Rails Envy MVC Video + Out-takes
Remember those Rails Envy MVC Public Service Announcment videos released at Railsconf earlier this year? The last MVC Video + Out-takes has just been released. [more inside]
Little Known Ways to Ruby Mastery by Jamie van Dyke
The Path to Ruby Mastery Weekly Interview Series by Ruby Masters, provides guidance to and answers questions confronting Ruby beginners from across the globe. The first in this series is by Jamie van Dyke from UK. Read the full interview - Little Known Ways to Ruby Mastery by Jamie van Dyke.
country_select
I created country_and_region_selectplugin because rails core team really make me sad about the country_select helper. Read More.
How companies should hire developers
Hashrocket is hiring Rails developers or how companies should hire developers
High-Performance DNS for the Cloud
A how-to for taking advantage of the Cloud to do seamless migrations and infrastructure updates with the help of dynamic DNS.
Rails guides
Official Rails guides could use some reviewing : http://guides.rails.info/
Validating your Fixtures with Rails and Test::Unit
Here’s a quick and dirty way to ensure that you’re using valid data for your fixtures. I’m not sure what the potential problems of basing all your tests on invalid data are, but I’m sure there’s go to be something…
Ruby and Ruby On Rails Jobs (in UK, Europe, US and Worldwide)
If you’re looking for a new Ruby / Rails job you may find this list of links useful. I will try to keep it as up-to-date as it can be and feel free to add your links too.
Roodi 1.3.0 released
Roodi (Ruby Object Oriented Design Inferometer) 1.3.0 has been released. It checks your code for design issues. Roodi now contains 13 checks plus config file support.