Welcome to this week's Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly , the Ruby e-mail newsletter.
Highlights include: MagicRuby 2012, a code structure/patterns 'drama', Mark Bates' new CoffeeScript book, minitest 3.2.0, and the Ruby Rogues chatting with Jim Weirich (who I met for the first time this week, ironically at a JavaScript conference! )
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'Programming in CoffeeScript' by Mark Bates, Now Available
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Before I start this article, let me apologize for the lack of writing over the last six months. My only excuse is that I've been working on a new book and that is where all my writing energy has gone. So with apologies out of the way, let's talk pagination.
Dealing with pagination in any application is never easy. There are a lot of great libraries out there that help you better handle this awkward, but unavoidable part of application programming. Things get even more complicated when you are trying to define an API.
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I've started working this week on an example application for the next book I'm about to write and I wanted a simple way for my readers to easily run the app (it's going to be a single HTML file with a ton of cool JavaScript going on in it). My first choice for running this app was to use the popular Ruby library, Rack . If you are unfamiliar with Rack, please check it out. It provides a simple interface for writing web applications. By writing a simple Ruby file …
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- Mislav's blog: Faraday: advanced HTTP requests made easy
- pingles: Recognising SSL Requests in Rack with Custom Headers
Mark Bates shows how to use Formtastic in your views.
Wesley Beary posts on the Engine Yard blog about what makes a good library.
TDD in Objective-C with MacRuby
Joshua Ballanco walks through creating a pig latin translator in objective c using MacRuby to TDD.
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Mark Bates, over on the Meta Bates blog, introduces Warp Drive which he describes as "what Rails Engines wish they could be, and more!" A Warp Drive is a standard, full featured, Rails application that you can easily bundle up into a Ruby Gem, and include into another Rails app.
Nathan Esquenazi has posted some common cap recipes on his GitHub account. There are recipes for Ruby, Passenger, Memcache, DelayedJob and more.
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Last night I had the pleasure of presenting to the Boston Ruby User's Group on CoffeeScript. My talk was geared to helping Rubyists understand, and hopefully love, CoffeeScript. Along the way I tried to debunk a few myths and preconceptions as to what CoffeeScript is and isn't. The reaction was really positive, so hopefully I did my job. Anyway, here are the slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/markykang/coffeescript-bostonrb-892011
Enjoy!
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- Jason Seifer: CoffeeScript and Rails 3
I have to ask a question to my fellow Rubyists out there? Why are you still using YAML? I know why you think you like YAML. You think it's a great way to write configuration files, but it's really not. You know what's a great way of writing configuration files for Ruby apps? RUBY!
I know it's crazy, isn't it? But why not? Why would you not want to use Ruby for configuring your applications instead of YAML?
I'm the maintainer of a pretty popular configuration …
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Twitter is an incredibly rich source of information. I find out about new libraries, applications, plugins, screen casts, etc... But, there's a problem with is overwhelming amount of information... keeping track of it all. A lot of time I read Twitter when I'm on my phone. I'll see a link to an article or website, etc... but I don't have time to read it then, what do I do? How do I find that tweet later? Or what about that announcement or news link for a new service or application …
About six weeks ago I announced FluxTracker.com a unified issue, document, and error management service. The response has been amazing. People love that you can now manage all of those things in one place, without any configuration. Well, today I'm happy to announce that FluxTracker has taken the next step forward to make managing all aspects of your project easier. Introducing FluxTracker Feedback .
FluxTracker Feedback allows you to put a little feedback widget …
- Topics: Cascading Style Sheets
Because I maintain several open source projects on Github I'm constantly getting emailed questions or issues, or people are always opening up tickets with bugs, issues, complaints, etc... And I really appreciate the feedback on these projects, I really do. What I would appreciate more is if instead of just opening a ticket, or sending an email, why not fork the project, fix it, and then contact me?
Now, I know that sounds like a lot of work, but honestly it's really not. Github…
- Topics: GitHub
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