Comix I/O - Custom editor for xkcd-like comics with HTML markup.
Did Rails Have a Major Security Flaw Today? - Cute response to the recent spate of upgrades.
bundler-audit - Utility to check your gemfile for known bad versions.
Mousetrap-Rails - Javascript keyboard shortcuts in the asset pipeline.
Custom Builds and Platform Support - Sometimes MySQL or Percona Server is not available for the platform you're using. Other times you need a custom build with special compile time settings. Using Percona MySQL Server Development Services to do this work will ensure you get an optimal and tested build. We have seen many cases when compilation would be either done with settings for poor performance (such as debugging code enabled) or going overboard with unsafe optimization and not …
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Creating a Custom Dashboard
Now that data is getting into New Relic, let's create a chart where we can view it. First, we'll create a new custom dashboard. From the Dashboards menu, click Create custom dashboard .
Enter a name for the new dashboard, choose a layout and click Create .
Next we'll create a new chart by filling in the following information in the chart configuration:
Make sure to add Custom/Visitor/BounceRate as the Metric , and select Average Value…
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- Lessons Learned: Doing > Talking
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The Custom Reporter
Now that tests have been created a method of communicating the results back to PhantomJS need to be added. With Mocha this is done through reporters , which listen to activities that occur during the testing process and provide feedback to the tester.
Reporters involve a lot of framework specific code that isn't completely relevent to this article so I've included this reporter in the following Github Gist . For those of you interested …
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- Patrick Lenz: Homebrew housekeeping
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- Khelll's Blog: Installing CoffeeScript on Ubuntu
The Custom Reporter
Now that tests have been created a method of communicating the results back to PhantomJS need to be added. With Mocha this is done through reporters , which listen to activities that occur during the testing process and provide feedback to the tester.
Reporters involve a lot of framework specific code that isn't completely relevent to this article so I've included this reporter in the following Github Gist . For those of you interested …
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #878
- igvita.com: Web Performance Power Tool: HTTP Archive (HAR)
- KernowSoul: Programatically simulating JavaScript events in a test environment
- pingles: Introducing node-hdfs: node.js client for Hadoop HDFS
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- Giles Bowkett: Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
…richer, useful metrics for DelayedJob workers, and the recently released Custom Dashboards allows you to to build a truly useful view for monitoring and troubleshooting your jobs.
Here's what it looks like:
This is a Custom Dashboard we built for our DelayedJobs workers running in production. Below, I'll show you the steps to create this in your own New Relic account. But first let me explain what we are looking at.
There are four graphs with data reported by …
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…preparation, we are detailing these changes and, where appropriate, how you can override them using Custom Chef recipes.
As with any upgrade, these changes will not be applied to your environment until you select the upgrade option. Testing in Staging is always recommended prior to performing an Environment upgrade. If you have concerns with any of these changes please open a ticket with us so we can explore those with you. Unless otherwise mentioned these changes are planned for release …
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…and drop, or instant copy an existing New Relic graph and boom — you've got a Custom Dashboard. This feature is only available to our Pro customers, so if you're not a Pro customer, sign up or upgrade today to get access to Custom Dashboards. Learn more about Custom Dashboards by reading this blog post .
Interested in more information on Engine Yard + New Relic? Check out our joint webcast: 6 Tips for Improving Ruby Application Performance …
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Factory Girl 2.5 Gets Custom Constructors
Media
RailsCasts: Upgrading to Rails 3.2
In the latest RailsCasts episode, Ryan Bates looks at the newly released Rails 3.2 and shows off some of its new features. Short and sweet in just 9 minutes.
Web Programming and Updating Frameworks with Yehuda Katz
The Ruby Rogues sit down with Yehuda Katz to discuss Web frameworks, JavaScript, Rails, Merb, Sinatra, Rack, and more. And just …
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- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Backbone.js on Rails live audio Q&A chat
- upstream agile - software: Http Caching assets in Rails 3.1
4) Custom partial paths
In order to render a partial for a given model, Rails 3.0 retrieved the partial name by calling: model.class.model name.partial path . Grant Hutchins & Peter Jaros noticed that this was not very flexible because the class was responsible to define the partial path and therefore they decided to move this responsibility to the instance. In order to better understand how you can use this feature, let's consider the following practical example. …
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- ricroberts: Ruby on Rails Bootcamp - the second coming
- Practicing Ruby: Practicing Ruby Journal: Three months in and still going strong
- casperfabricius.com: Speaking at RuPy 2011