The Ruby Reflector

…ADO.NET, Entity Framework, Delphi, HTML5, jQuery, Ajax, Backbone, JS, PHP, XML, Razor, ISS, Apache, ASP.NET, MS SQL, CardDav and CalDav protocols

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 …

• Topics: JavaScript, Minimum Viable Product, Web Developer, Android, PHP

…is this: asynchronous coding with call-backs is hard, but if you treat events (from the user, from ajax HTTP, or whatever) as a collection that you can subscribe to, and you can map and filter those collections with anonymous functions, it's easier. We'll have to see. The speaker, Erik Meijer, gave a pretty similar talk at MIX .

Badges, with Ribbons

They took some flak for the ribbon color-text, especially for the desperate perl hackers , but they were pretty …

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We've also been investigating the best way to measure the performance of Rails 4 Ajax features like Turbolinks. Ben Weintraub recently pull requested an additional JavaScript event into the Turbolinks gem , and we've been experimenting with approaches for monitoring JavaScript and Ajax performance.

See the following for more information on New Relics support for Rails 4 and Ruby 2:

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• Topics: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, New Relic, JavaScript, Railsconf
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One of my favorite conferences every year is Microconf , because it focuses on small software businesses, which is where my heart and soul is businesswise. I know a lot of folks can't justify a trip out to Vegas (though you should really come in 2014 if you possibly can — 2013 is only a few days from me posting this and already quite sold out), so I always ask Rob and Mike (the organizers) for a copy of my video so I can produce a transcript and put it online. My 2012 talk …

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Foundation plugins should now conflict less with other libraries, work better with AJAX, be easier to turn on or off and, on top of all of that, be faster and lighter.

We're also using Zepto.js , a jQuery API compatible library. This dramatically reduces how much your users will need to load (especially on mobile devices) and provides the added benefit of using CSS for animations, taking advantage of hardware acceleration where possible. And if you need jQuery, just swap …

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…so damn fast without using much client-side UI including two mechanisms for pushState based AJAX and two mechanisms for intelligent hierarchical fragment caching.

several additional tags have gained AJAX support. This includes, but is not limited to <a> , <filter-menu> and <page-nav> .

all tags now use the standard Hobo AJAX support mechanism, which used to be known as Hobo form AJAX. The editor tags in particular have changed …

• Topics: Ruby on Rails, Hobo, jQuery, Bootstrap, JavaScript
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…couldn't be easier: var Model = Backbone.Model.extend({ sync: _.debounce(Backbone.Model.prototype.sync, 800) });

Beautiful and Simple

This minor addition achieves exactly what is needed! No matter how furiously the user updates information, the model is now smart enough to send an AJAX request once, a short period after the drag motion has completed. The resulting code lets the user interface immediately respond to the change, while not causing servers to catch on fire.

• Topics: Backbone.Sync, Backbone.Model
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…}

});

Beautiful and Simple

This minor addition achieves exactly what is needed! No matter how furiously the user updates information, the model view is now smart enough to send an AJAX request once, a short period after the drag motion has completed. Minor tweaks may be required depending on the purposes of the application, but the resulting code lets the user interface immediately respond to the change, while not causing servers to catch on fire.

• Topics: Backbone.Sync, Backbone.Model, Backbone.View
• There's no place like ::1: Titanium With Coffeescript and Backbone.js - Part 2
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For example, this works even if the content is added by Ajax:

1 2 click_link ( "Add to favorites" ) page . should have_content ( "Added to favorites" )

Behind the scenes, Capybara will retry finding the content if it's not yet present.

But if you write optimistic UIs that say "Added to favorites" immediately, and only then fire off the Ajax request, you may write a test more like this:

1 2 3 4 Favorite . count . should == 0 click_link ( "Add …

• Topics:  Capybara, UI, UIs, asynchronous, JavaScript
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…<sortable-collection> have been moved to the hobo_jquery_ui gem

fix for recognize_page_path when used for non-GET requests

fix for AJAX response when no part is specified

<view> has gained a force attribute

ILIKE is now used for automatic scopes on Postgres

hobo_login now respects the return code of its block

the user class now works without a lifecycle

fixes for non-empty relative url root

• Topics: Hobo, Ruby, Kramdown, Maruku, PostgreSQL
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