19 May 2013

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Mike Gunderloy

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 2 days ago.
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Test::Page - Page-oriented integration testing for ruby.

Upgrading to Sublime Text 3 - Step by step guide to getting on the beta version.

Introducing ProMotion, a Full-Featured RobyMotion Application Framework - Abstracting screen and navigation handling in a rubylike way.

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How to make a Rubygem - Setting up the basic structure.

Patching Ruby for Faster Rails Startup, Revisited - Made easier with rvm.

Curly - Template language that separates logic and structure completely.

Capybara::Select2 - Helpers to test selects that have been spiffed up with select2.

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Weeks of May 6 - May 12, 2013

ce4456fd replaces multi_json with native Ruby 1.9 json.

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Converting text to basic latin (aka removing accents) with JavaScript - I needed this over the weekend, so it's time to stash a link.

Big-O Cheat Sheet - Space and time complexities of various common algorithms.

Devise and Rails 4 - Moving various libraries forward.

Esbit - Lightweight gem to interact with the Campfire API.

5 Things You Should Stop Doing with jQuery - Avoid Document Ready, among others.

Phones for …

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 11 days ago.
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nginx security advisory - If you're running 1.3.9 or 1.4.0 you need to update sooner rather than later.

Phusion Passenger 4.0.2 released - A quick update to fix the nginx vulnerability.

Discover Meteor - Ebook on this real time Javascript web framework.

Flat UI Pro - $ 39 set of components for Bootstrap.

RailsConf 2013 Talks - With links to videos and slides.

10 Years - CSS Zen Garden is 10 years old - and refreshing for the modern web era.

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 12 days ago.
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test-queue - Parallel test runner using a centralized queue and optimized for CI environment.

Upgrading to Rails 4 - The Railscast.

Phusion Passenger 4.0.1 final release - With support for all sorts of cutting-edge stuff.

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 13 days ago.
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Weeks of April 22 - May 5, 2013

As I expected, Rails 4.0 RC1 was released last week. And so, now the coverage here is of the new master, which is planned to be Rails 4.1.

1ec64297 is the actual tag for 4.0 RC1.

eebb9ddf touches a lot of code to convert ActiveModel to 1.9 hash syntax.

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 13 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 Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 16 days ago.
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Open Source - Memcache Top - Figure out which are your hot keys.

Instant Firebug Starter - A full book on using Firebug effectively.

Future of Firebug Lite - The project is looking for folks to work on it.

Brainrubyck - A Brainfuck interpreter written in Ruby.

Turkee - Mechanical Turk integration for Rails projects.

Rack::Attack - Middleware for throttling requests from abusive clients.

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