20 May 2013

The Ruby Reflector

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API

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 7 days ago.
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Esbit - Lightweight gem to interact with the Campfire API.

5 Things You Should Stop Doing with jQuery - Avoid Document Ready, among others.

Phones for Apps for Firefox OS - Mozilla is giving away phones to entice app developers.

Does MultiJson introduce slowness? - Looks like we may see some rapid movement towards native Json in Ruby now.

RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and Plugins - Lots of new goodies …

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By Darin Swanson of New Relic 9 days ago.
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…months - and the corresponding three releases -we've added improved logging to the agent, a new API method to control Real User Monitoring ( RUM) on a per-page basis and an improved installer. But that's not all! The two big features are Cross Application Tracing ( CAT) and beta support for Azure Web Sites! All the release details can be found on our release page .

Cross Application Tracing

For those of you with multi-tier, SOA-style architectures, …

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We have some cool plans to improve the wrappers API even further, but that's subject for another blog post .

Responders

Responders has been around for quite some time already and we use it in most of our projects, so today we're celebrating its 1.0 release candidate version, specially to support Rails 4.

Show For

Show For just got a new stable release, v0.2.6, with all the enhancements and bug fixes that were in master, plus a v0.3.0 rc version that adds Rails 4 support. …

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By Todd Hoff of High Scalability 10 days ago.
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…by James Golick and Joe Damato, who want to talk about things concrete, not like that Hacker News BS.

I'd love to see the API: The idea we live in a simulation isn't science fiction . Magic anyone?

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By Kevin Smith of Opscode Blog 13 days ago.
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We're also finalizing plans to bring the Chef 11′s new API server, erchef, to Hosted Chef in the coming weeks. erchef has been proven in demanding environments such as Facebook and Cycle Computing ‘s on-demand compute clusters.

Bringing erchef to Hosted Chef is a huge project involving a cast of virtual thousands touching almost every Hosted Chef system and component. We can't wait to share erchef with our Hosted Chef users but we want to do …

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Links to any related projects (e.g.: Is this a Rails API that has corresponding iOS and Android clients?)

Links to online tools related to the application (e.g.: Links to the Basecamp project, a link to the dropbox where all the wireframes are stored, a link to the Pivotal Tracker project)

README: Getting Started

The "Getting Started" section outlines the process of getting the app installed and usable for a developer. I define ‘usable' in this context …

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By Lee of Blog | The Working Group 19 days ago.
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Have created an API for a production environment

Experience with additional database platforms such as Postgres, Redis and Mongo in a live production environment

Able to work in a * nix/ Linux environment

Use source control exclusively, Git preferably

Use ftp to deploy applications

Experience programming iOS, Android or BlackBerry applications

Write tests with UnitTest, RSpec or some other test-driven framework

Additional Desirable Business Competencies

Comfortable …

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By Adam Keys of The Real Adam 19 days ago.
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User shouldn't know when or how to manipulate "remember me" data, only expose an API that handles the mechanics.

The result: now my extracted class, UserAuthentication has meaning, but doesn't really own any behavior. It's a bit envious of the User model. That "envy" hints that its behavior really should live in the model.

Further, using delegate means the User model's API surface area isn't actually reduced. Granted, this is a stopgap …

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By miraculous1 of mir.aculo.us 20 days ago.
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…graphs is to use PhantomJS , which is a headless WebKit with an API that has support for taking screenshots.

We also have the following requirements for our report emails:

Don't generate the Mini-Pulse if the email is never opened , to conserve server resources

Cache the generated image once the email was opened once

Securely serve the image and use encrypted URLs with embedded authentication (the user the email was sent to may no longer have permission to access …

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…Asynchronous Jobs, Emails, 3rd Party Services, and JSON API endpoints.

Tuesday at 2:00pm: Sleeping with the enemy with George Brocklehurst :

In this session we'll go off the Rails and take a look at what our Pythonista cousins are doing with Django.

I'll start with some live coding: recreating DHH's infamous 15 minute blog demo using Django and explaining the building blocks of a Django app along the way. I'll then take that app …

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