25 May 2013

The Ruby Reflector

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By Gregory Brown of Practicing Ruby 3 years ago.
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…everyone, the solutions we'll be selling as nicely typeset, professionally edited, DRM -free PDF download

I am pleased to announce that this service did indeed launch yesterday, and that you can give it a try by heading over to rubyproblems.com now. If you need a bit more information, consider checking out this screencast or this announcement .

While this is still a bit of an experiment for us, we're really excited to see how things turn out. …

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 19 days ago.
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Asynchronous IO in Rack Middleware - Some ways to tweak Rack apps for more throughput, if you dare to mess around in thread pools.

Jekyll 1.0 Released - Thanks to some new blood in the project.

Crafting Rails Applications - Another book updated for Rails 4.

Xray - Add an overlay to Rails app indicating which piece was rendered by which partial.

Exploring Elasticsearch - Free online book.

Stringer - Self-hosted RSS reader without social features.

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By Leigh Shevchik of New Relic 1 month ago.
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…account

5. Enter your New Relic API key in the License key field.

6. Complete the installation by clicking the Install Add-on button.

Click here for more detailed instructions with screenshots.

The post Cloud Provider Announces Free, Integrated APM from New Relic appeared first on New Relic blog .

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 2 months ago.
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Bring Ruby VCR to Javascript testing with Capybara and puffing-billy - We do love our test tools.

State of RSS Readers - Roundup of alternatives to the now-defunct Google Reader.

Mailtrap - Free fake SMTP server for testing.

Bulletproof Demos - How to use Google Chrome as a demo engine.

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By Sylvia Vu of New Relic 3 months ago.
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* Take Joyent For a Spin with a Free Trial ! Starting today, the Joyent cloud officially ranks among "the best things in life." Anyone can sign up for a free evaluation and trial that includes $ 125 of usage, which is equivalent to 60 days on a 1GB SmartMachine.

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By James Mead of Blog - James Mead 4 months ago.
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Last week Chris , my colleague from Go Free Range , helped me fix a bug in Mocha . The problem was that in Ruby 2.0 (!) stubbing and un-stubbing FileUtils.mkdir p seemed to change the visibility of the original method from public to private. require "fileutils" require "mocha/api" FileUtils.mkdir_p "test-before-stubbing" # => ["test-before-stubbing"] FileUtils.stubs(:mkdir_p) FileUtils.mkdir_p "test-after-stubbing" …

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By Peter Meth of Engine Yard Developer Blog 5 months ago.
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App, you will be asked for your app name (this will become the subdomain if using the Free account), your Github public repo url, the branch name and the index file. Make sure the index file is public/index.html then click Launch App.

After a minute or two of waiting, Engine Yard should have pulled down your blog from Github and launched it on their servers for you to enjoy. The Orchestra control panel will give you a link to the website, which is labelled " Public Hostname". …

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By Tom Ward of Tom Ward 5 months ago.
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…and running the first time, it comes into its doing subsequent deployments. At Go Free Range we like to deploy apps we're working on very frequently. One thing that helps ensure we do this is making each deployment as fast as it can be.

Using git as recap does is already a very quick way to get code changes onto servers, but recap takes things a step further. By testing to see which files have changed it knows which tasks can be skipped. For example, database migrations won't …

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