Ruby Cool-aid for Holiday Season
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Dec 08
Rukshi Oshadi gives a different twist to the end of Ruby Advent series. For last 23 days we focused entirely on hacking cool stuff with Ruby. On this Christmas Eve we are going bit further and hack our real lives. Take few minutes to reminisce on your own life.
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Dec 08
Peter Szinek walks us through the process of scraping data from web sites with scRubyt!. Impress your friends (and even your mother!) this christmas with your slick data mining skillz!
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Dec 08
Deployment can be a pain! Provisioning, rollbacks, deployment, installations oh my! Don’t even get started thinking about clouds! Ari Lerner presents a new way to deploy using all the tools you already use!
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Dec 08
Amy Hoy, with her colleagues Thomas Fuchs and Dieter Komendera presents really cool gift to all the Ruby Advent readers. They made an exclusive cheatsheet for us on Payment Processing! We know how much a PITA it is, but the way they tackle it is spiffy and you will love it!
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Dec 08
Cristi Balan shows how to use braid to manage dependencies in a git repository. If you host your project on git and you use plugins or external libraries, braid helps a lot with the task of keeping them up to date.
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Dec 08
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.
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Dec 08
Foy Savas, goes beyond simple introductory theories and shows you the real meat of feature development workflow with Merb. If you want to learn how to develop in the right way, this article would be a great inspiration.
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Dec 08
Gregory Brown wanted to quit his job and work full-time on Ruby Open Source projects. Community embraced his idea and supported it wholehearted. Today, Greg shares with us the fruits reaped from that productive season.
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Dec 08
Chris O’Sullivan, shares how to conqueror the globe with Rails 2.2., which comes with out of the box internationalization. He will take you through some tips on why you should do it, how to implement it, and general tips to make it easy.
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Dec 08
Marc-André Cournoyer, takes a look at some handy Rack middleware available, for you to paint masterpiece apps in Rack canvas. Rack has become the de-facto specification for building Ruby web apps, so knowing these essentials would be very helpful.
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Dec 08
Josh Adams and Lex Sheehan gives us a sneak peak to their upcoming Rails based CMS platform, Ansuz. It is an interesting project to keep an eye on for both developers as well as content authors.
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Dec 08
Christoph Budzinski shares the fun of building nice apps with awesome Shoes. If you are to have a funful, trendy and hackety weekend, there is no better option than this.
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Dec 08
Luke Sutton, explains another handy language feature available in Ruby. It is something you may regularly encounter, but most of you may have not spared a thought on it. However, its true capabilities really deserves attention.
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Dec 08
Peter Szinek, injects some focus on a versatile method in the Ruby developer’s toolbox - Enumerable#inject. It’s one of those little things you can live without just fine, but find it indispensable once you get used to.
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Dec 08
Avdi Grimm presents a perfect gift for any developer this Christmas, a comprehensive guide on writing your specs. This is something you would be referring over and over in the days to come, so make sure you keep it bookmarked.
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Dec 08
Gaveen Prabhasara will take us a ride in the wonderful land of Git, where version controlling became more of a passion than a procedure. Find out how to do some cool stuff with Git using Ruby.
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Dec 08
One of the cooler yet little used gems in the Ruby standard library is DRb - Distributed Ruby. DRb makes it really easy to share objects between different processes. Today, Darcy Laycock will show, how to build a simple (and relatively naive) shared queue with DRb.
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Dec 08
Being a Sunday, I felt little lazy to get up early morning to do a blog post. I wish how nice it would be, if I could generate blog post by running a simple command. It’s not that far from the reality. You could generate fake content with Ruby, that nobody will notice. However, this article is original if you wonder.
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Dec 08
Merb is the Ruby web Framework, which claims to be aware of enterprise. One of the growing concerns when it comes to the enterprise web sector is SOA (Service Oriented Architectures). In simple terms it means different small apps communicating with each other over the network. Can we build SOA in Merb? You’d need to answer this question, if you are going to convince the enterprise on Merb.
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Dec 08
Using fixtures for test data sucks. Concept of factories have emerged as a recommended alternative for fixtures. There were several plugins to help creating factories such as Object Daddy and Factory Girl. Recently I got to use another factory plugin called Machinist, which is written by Pete Yandell which looked far more impressive from the rest.
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Dec 08
Let’s take a peak on Cucumber, the latest testing tool which came to spotlight in 2008. We will look on how to plan and develop features of an application with Cucumber, following the the BDD patterns.
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Dec 08
How do you track exception notifications in your Rails app? Are your apps still using the old school Rails Exception Notifier?..It would only fill your mailbox and very little helpful when it comes to identifying the real trouble spots in your app, especially if you are running a live site with couple thousand daily visitors. If you are looking for a smarter option, you should checkout Hoptoad. This is a hosted exception notification service from reputed Ruby development house, Thoughtbot.
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Dec 08
Yesterday we setup a simple blog using Scanty, a blog engine based on Sinatra. Today let’s see how we could deploy it on a live server.
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Dec 08
If you are like me, your first experience with Rails (and Ruby) must’ve been this awesome screencast on ‘building a weblog in 15 minutes’. Though the tutorial and world of Ruby has since evolved so much, yet we rarely get to see a weblog powered by a Ruby blog engine. Still the old school PHP blogging engines such as Wordpress or TextPattern rules the mainstream.