…enjoying this podcast from The Farmhouse. The latest episode features Shane Becker and Evan Phoenix discussing the Puma Ruby Web server. Steve Klabnik features on two earlier episodes.
RubyConf 2012 Lightning Talks: An 80 Minute Grab Bag
The Thoughtbot Podcast Chats to RubyConf 2012 Attendees
Libraries and Code
Rake 10.0 Released: Yes, Version 10
Ruby's make-like build utility takes a small step for Jim Weirich but a giant leap …
- Plataformatec Blog: Eager loading for greater good
- Viget.com Blogs: A Better Way to Add a ‘selected' Class to Links in Rails
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Writing Better Cucumber Scenarios; or, Why We're Deprecating FactoryGirl's Cucumber Steps
- The Pug Automatic: SendGrid metadata and Rails
- A Fresh Cup: What's New in Edge Rails #27
- New Relic: Rails Machine Adds APM from New Relic to its App Management Platform for Rails
Puma is a new threaded web server built by Evan Phoenix of Rubinius fame. Puma Express manages Puma servers, automatically setting up the DNS ( appname.dev ) for you. This is similar to the approach used by Pow, but without a Node dependency.
Tokaido will integrate with Puma Express, so you will not need to manually boot and shut down your server. Because Tokaido also takes care of logging, there shouldn't be any need for dedicated tabs with persistent running processes …
- niczsoft: what you should know about rbenv and RVM
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: RVM Needs Your Help
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #847
A beautifully presented magazine article by Evan Phoenix about the background to Rubinius' creation and its development all the way up to 1.0. Not much tech stuff in here but a truly heartwarming story about the little Ruby implementation that could.
The Joke Is On Us: How Ruby 1.9 Supports the Goto Statement
Pat Shaughnessy is back with a dive into Ruby's support for the concept of "goto" (a la your favorite pre 1990s programming languages). Did …
- Giles Bowkett: Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
- Merbist: Learning from Rails' failures
- Paul Gross's Blog: Untangle Domain and Persistence Logic with Curator
- Andrzej on Software: Rails is still cool
- Plataformatec Blog: My five favorite "hidden" features in Rails 3.2
- Ruby Quicktips: Log in to your database console using Rails
A few orts to close out the work week.
Jason - Free JSON viewer and editor for OS X.
The History of Rubinius - Evan Phoenix offers some insights into the origin and growth of Rubinius.
Ruby Freelancers - New site featuring a podcast for those interested in getting started.
Yes, You Should Write Controller Tests! - Argues that as classes, they need test coverage in every method. I find that recently I've been writing a lot more integrations than functionals to achieve that, though.
tl;dr Ruby Implementation Concurrency Parallelism MRI 1.8 ✔ MRI 1.9 ✔ Rubinius 1 ✔ Rubinius 2 ✔ ✔ JRuby ✔ ✔ MacRuby ✔ ✔ Maglev ✔ IronRuby ✔ ✔
A big topic in the world of Ruby this year has been how to get more out of Ruby, specifically, how to get more done in parallel. The topic of concurrency, though, is one fraught with misunderstanding. This is largely due to the complexities of not only thinking about multiple things at once, but the limitations of Ruby implementations and operating systems.
- RubyLearning Blog: So... you're new to Ruby!
- Ruby Inside: A Review of "Eloquent Ruby" by Russ Olsen - It Rocks!
- Riding Rails - home: Rails and the Enterprise
- Merbist: About concurrency and the GIL
- Intridea - Company Blog: Build A Mac Application From Scratch Using MacRuby and Hotcocoa
- jimmy.thinking: "Start spreading the news": the future of Jimmy and IronRuby
…# rbxday was Friday, July 15, 2011. Well, our compañero Evan Phoenix and his wife Abby just had a beautiful baby daughter named Zoe . He's taking some time off of the Nerd Work™ while he learns how to be a father. Because we want him to be a part of # rbxday , we're postponing it to August 5, 2011 . Mark (or re-mark) your calendars. Thanks for your understanding.
Links for further reader exploration:
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- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Why, Hello Portland!
- Ruby Inside: Rubinius 1.1 Released: It's Just Better
…RubyGems users that will promise 1.3.7+ support forever. I'm already starting this process with Evan Phoenix
Writing technical documentation to help people become more familiar with the internals of RubyGems, as well as how the extension system works.
Helping folks who experience breakage find out the problems and fix them.
Many people have quietly thanked me for my efforts, but a few have loudly criticized them. I hope the above list of items are less likely to flare up more conflicts. …
- Ruby And How!: How To Install a Ruby Gem
- : Little known facts #1: gem search
- Daddy Fixes Everything: Ruby on Rails Ubuntu Server VM with VMPlayer
- Segment7: Contribution Granularity
- Luke Redpath: Downloading iTunes finance reports into FreeAgent
- Litany Against Fear: Gem Bundler is the Future
…there for folks to make informed decisions based on. The second is that I've been talking with Evan Phoenix about some creative ways to meet the 'backwards compatibility forever' goals of SlimGems in a less divisive way. However, both of these things depend heavily on how quickly I can front load on RubyGems knowledge, it may end up being a slow process.
Mendicant University
We just wrapped up the May core skills course on Tuesday and have welcomed 10 new students into …
- Headius: JRuby Startup Time Tips
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/
- Segment7: RubyGems 1.4 vs Ruby 1.9
- David Chelimsky: rake 0.9 and gem version constraints
- occasionally useful: A brief introduction to Ruby, Sinatra, and Haml
- amazing development: JRuby on appengine with Ubuntu
…teaching me so crazy much, especially Jen Krater and Larry Drake; to Evan Phoenix and Shane Becker for rb.la ; to Coby Randquist, Alf Mikula, and many many others for LA Ruby ; to everyone who's had me speak at their awesome conferences; to Pete Forde, for special secret favors (ooh la la); to you for reading this; and to so many other people that I can't remember at the moment, my bad for that.
…Ruby and Rails developers (like Yehuda Katz, Charles Nutter, Evan Phoenix and many others) have confirmed their presence. If you get the chance, don't miss it!
3) Oredev Sweden: 8th to 12th November
And finally, my last stop will be in Sweden at the developer conference held in Malmö . This will be different from the previous two, since it is not focused in Ruby nor Rails. It's a multitrack conference that hosts different technologies (by the way, the …
- Riding Rails - home: Rails Has Great Documentation
- Brainspl.at: 4 years at Engine Yard, what a long strange trip it's been.
- Merbist: Discussion with a Java switcher
- New Relic: Rails 3 is here! Congrats to everyone who contributed! Learn how to get started with RPM on Rails 3.
- Jake Scruggs: Ruby Kaigi 2010 Day 1
- RailsCasts: Episode 225: Upgrading to Rails 3 Part 1