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…tie between answers, then the one who posted first will be the winner) will be awarded any one of PeepCode's Ruby on Rails screencasts and a free 10 GB account for a year from Backup My App .
From the remaining working Ruby solutions, three participants would be selected randomly and each one would be awarded any one of Pragmatic's The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming screencasts.
All the participants in this challenge (except the participant …
…tie between answers, then the one who posted first will be the winner) will be awarded any one of PeepCode's Ruby on Rails screencasts and a free 10 GB account for a year from Backup My App .
From the remaining working Ruby solutions, three participants would be selected randomly and each one would be awarded any one of Pragmatic's The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming screencasts.
All the participants in this challenge (except the participant …
PeepOpen is a new application from PeepCode that gives you a smarter fuzzy file search (like in TextMate) and also works in MacVim and Emacs. It really helps out in MacVim and is much easier to configure than the fuzzy file finder plugin.
Wrapping Up
This isn't everything I use but It's a pretty good start. If you have any must have apps or dev environment shortcuts, please post in the comments.
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…There are Rubyists embracing Internet marketing and information products - Peepcode, Pragmatic Screencasts, Envycasts, Amy Hoy, Ben Orenstein, 37Signals' first book, Marc-André Cournoyer - but by and large, the VC culture still reigns supreme.
The VC culture annoyed the hell out of me a few years ago, back when I still thought it at least made sense; but today, with the knowledge of so many simple, proven ways to make money on the Internet, the VC culture mystifies …
…. (I also hear praise for the NERDtree plugin from people who use vim more than I do.) Overall, though, I think Ben's screencast is a nice bit of training, and certainly goes deeper than the average 5-minute Railscast. Peepcode has a great little screencast on emacs , but nothing on vim so far.
Ben also created a video on how to use Amazon S3 in a Rails app, and I'll be reviewing that soon.
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Features
Do your text editor's navigation facilities do this?
Easy installation with a single application and one-button editor plugin.
Fuzzy search including relative path within project and filename.
Smart sorting algorithm puts the most likely file at the top based on modification time and the best metrics from two fuzzy match algorithms.
Useful metadata …
Ruby veteran James Edward Gray II talks about Ruby daemons, TextMate 2, and Rails 3.
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…or Campfire. Similar exceptions are grouped together and sorted to help you prioritise your bug-fixing. You can view backtrace and occurrence information, make notes for your team, and send exceptions to third-party ticketing services.
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JQuery Ajax - The latest from PeepCode.
Rails 3 Testing environment - Gist showing how to set one up safely with rvm.
TypeDNA - Some interesting font tools, including one that will identify fonts in uploaded images.
Insourcing - Sarah Allen is experimenting with some ways to cost-effectively grow a development team without the risks of outsourcing, through carefully-managed internships.
Visual Website Optimizer - Beta hosted service …