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.
- Topics: Sublime Text
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.
nginx, PageSpeed, and Amazon CloudFront - How to speed up static asset serving.
Gem Activation and You: Part I - Start of a series on how RubyGems works.
Ruby 1.9.2-p429 is released and Ruby 2.0.0-p195 is released - With a security patch.
Weeks of May 6 - May 12, 2013
ce4456fd replaces multi_json with native Ruby 1.9 json.
- Ruby Inside: The Past 2 Weeks in the World of Ruby: 40 Links to Bring You Up to Speed (January 2012)
- David Chelimsky: rspec-2.12 is released
- Matthew Bass: Building an external HTTP-based API in Rails
- Viget.com Blogs: Arduino, Redis, Dropcam + Holiday Cheer = Jinglebots!
- The Real Adam: Stella by Starlight
- Ruby News: Ruby 1.9.3-p392 is released
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 …
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 426 — The Big O
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.
- Kalzumeus Software: Kalzumeus Podcast 4: Apps That Matter, Angel Investing, and B2B Sales with Matt Wensing of Stormpulse
- starjuice - Home: State of the Hearnion
- JJinuxLand: PyCon: Ten Years of Twisted
- Mislav's blog: The controversy of "and or unless else"
- Lance: The Future of Technical Recruiting Agencies
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Embiggening the Toad
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.
- Edge Rails.info: The Skinny on Scopes (Formerly named_scope)
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: PostgreSQL is Our New Default
- Dalibor Nasevic: Rubygems: too many connection resets
- » Product Launch Blog: Authorization with CanCan
- Jason Seifer: Rake Tutorial
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #093
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.
- omgbloglol: Holy crap! I made $40,000 this year with my eBook. And you can, too.
- Fun With Radiant: Tech Notes on RC1
- RailsOnWave Ruby on Rails web 2.0 Ajax - Home: Rails 3, third beta release
- Riding Rails - home: Rails 3.0: Release candidate 2
- Headius: Busy Week: JRuby with Android, Maven, Rake, C exts, and More!
- Nikos D.: Rails 2.2 is (almost) here
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.
- CRAZ8: Heroku Configuration for Performance Rails Apps
- Opscode Blog: Chef Server 11.0.6 and 10.24.0 Released
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Faster tests: sign in through the back door
- Viget.com Blogs: Refactoring Patterns: The Rails Middleware Response Handler
- New Relic: Recap of RubyConf 2012
- Fingertips: A quick note on dependencies in Ruby on Rails projects
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.
- Luke Melia: 5 Tips for porting javascript from Prototype to jQuery
- Bamboo Blog: Snake Game using HTML5 Canvas tag
- Intridea - Company Blog: My Web Development Toolbox, 2010 Edition
- ZURB: Develop for Chrome First
- RubyLearning Blog: Why don't you use and review these useful Ruby Gems?
- Dalibor Nasevic: Quick Javascript Development Tips