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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!)
When to use readpartial instead of read in Ruby
When to use readpartial instead of read (network IO in ruby)
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.
Morse.rb
Sunday is for simple solutions: Morse.rb
Where do you get Ruby news from?
Where (else) do you get Ruby news from?
How named_scope works
named_scope is widely used but is still understood in terms of how it works. Read this article to understand the gut of named_scope.
Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby
The Apple Developer Connection (ADC) website is now featuring an article about MacRuby, titled Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby, which will introduce you to MacRuby and guide you through the process of writing a Cocoa application with it.
Red gets and update to version 4
Red, the Ruby to Javascript syntax transliterator just got updated to version 4.0 and is now a full Ruby runtime for the browser. It runs Ruby code through a compiler and turns it into javascript that runs on top of a native port of the Ruby core classes. Give it a try!
Elements of Ruby Style
First steps toward a Ruby style guide.
Barduino - The drink serving robot built with Ruby
Barduino was introduced at the Orlando Ruby Users Group meeting last night. It’s a bar monkey implementation using an Arduino microcontroller, programmed with the Ruby Arduino Development framework and controlled with a Ruby DSL; Barduino-tender.
Rails TakeFive with James Elwood of Geezeo.com
FiveRuns has posted this week’s Rails TakeFive featuring James Elwood of Geezeo.com, sharing his thoughts and experiences with FiveRuns and Rails. Check it out here!
How to clone a server for testing purposes
This article describes how to clone a production server and turn it into a staging server in just a few steps.
Dorothy: A Z-Machine interpreter library
Dorothy is a new Z-Machine library written in C and Ruby. There’s more info about Dorothy – and a demo webapp – at http://ifrotz.org.
handling uris
Boring URI handling made a little bit less boring. Blog Post and Gist