…friends, a shared Git repository, a remote server, and Rails (or your favorite Rack-based framework). From that point on, it's up to you - to design, develop, and deploy the greatest web application the world has ever seen!
Sound awesome? Add ninjas, rewards, a championship belt, for goodness sake! And to top it off, you'll be competing against some of the coolest people in the Rails industry. But don't just take our word for it...
You can code on a boat, like the Great Lakes Geeks…
- BlogFish - Blog: Ruby En Rails 2009 Recap
- Josh Owens is a Rails Freak: Launch it, quick!
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #086: 07/08/2009
- Litany Against Fear: RailsConf 2009 Starting up Fast Lessons from the Rails Rumble
- Alloy Code - Home: Heroku Hijinks
- Joe Fiorini: Rumble Panel at CodeMash
This makes the notifier usable in any Rack-based application, including Merb or Sinatra. The README also includes an example for using the Rack notifier in Sinatra.
Automatic metal notification
The Hoptoad:: Rails module also uses this Rack support to provide automatic Hoptoad notification from within your Rails Metal applications: if defined?(::Rails.configuration) && ::Rails.configuration.respond_to?(:middleware) ::Rails.configuration.middleware.insert_after …
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #652
- Tammer Saleh: Bushido
- Litany Against Fear: Load Rails conditionally with Rack
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Phusion Passenger 2.2.6 released
- Bamboo Blog: On-the-fly image handling with Dragonfly
- The Life Of A Radar: Congratulations
There's certainly no shortage of goings-on to link to lately.
Devise 1.0.0 - Major milestone for this Rack-based authentication solution for Rails.
Cloudfront: no-brainer CDN Support for S3 - I've got a couple of apps out there where I really should implement this.
Save file and reload Safari from TextMate - Passed on by Alex Heaton.
Bye Bye Github and GitHub post - Afterthoughts - Elad Meidar discusses expectations and git hosting.
- Freelancing Gods: Speaking Khmer
- Rails Rumble: ZenCoder Rocks Y-Combinator
- Rails Illustrated: 10 Web Application Interface Techniques to Consider to Enhance Your User's Experience
- Rails Envy » Home: Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #082: 06/10/2009
Toto ( GitHub repo ) is a new lightweight Ruby and Rack-based blogging engine designed specifically for "hackers" by Alexis Sellier. Content is managed entirely through git - so everything is version controlled - and articles are stored as text files with embedded YAML metadata. At only 300 lines, too, it's easy to hack to your own taste.
Alexis has decided to push Toto by demonstrating how easy it is to deploy - for free - on the Heroku …
- RubyLearning Blog: Happynerds - Programming Links for Kids
- Dead Programmer Society: Heroku Has Launched
- Giles Bowkett: There's No Such Thing As A Good Client
- Rails Inside: Scout Improves App Monitoring for Rails Developers
- Article RSS Feed: August 2009 Meeting
- Luke Redpath: Is your MP on Twitter?
So at last, I'm very pleased to introduce Dragonfly, a Rack-based ruby gem for processing/encoding on the fly.
There are already one or two gems which deal with on-the-fly processing (see below), and while these are good for their specific tasks, I wanted one which was generic enough as to allow the use of different processing libraries, different data stores, etc.
From the start it has been designed to be as modular and extendable as possible, making it highly configurable, but falling …
- a work on process: Friday (ish) links - January 15th 2010
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #626
- Rails Inside: Dragonfly: Image Handling For Champions
- Riding Rails - home: What's New in Edge Rails
- Simone Carletti's Blog: Re-raise a Ruby exception in a Rails rescue_from statement
- Khaled alHabache's official blog: Delegation in Ruby
…Rack application that lets you to monitor the interactions between users and your own Rack-based application (e.g. any Rails or Sinatra app). As well as pumping out information to the console or a log file, there's a Web interface called Wackamole to give you the skinny on your app activity.
Rackamole's creator, Fernand Galiana (also of ZiYa charting library fame), says that Rackamole is well suited for determining what parts of your application …
- Ruby on Rails Podcast: Ryan Tomayko - Ruby on Rails Podcast
- Home - Leading Ruby on Rails Development and Consulting firm in India - Vinsol: 10 little known ways to find a ruby on rails team for your next project
- RubyLearning Blog: Cookie-based Sessions in Sinatra
- Rubycon - All things geared towards web development: [Rubyconf 2008] All I really need to know I learned by writing my own web framework - Ben Scofield
- The messagepub Blog: How-To: Rack Middleware for API Throttling
- Jason Seifer: 32 Rack Resources to Get You Started
…developers to almost instantly deploy web applications on the Internet. Heroku supports Rack-based web applications so deploying the code on Heroku is a piece of cake. While this service charges for hosting, it also provides a free basic tier account. It should be remarked that this platform requires the intensive use of Git , a powerful decentralized SCM ( Source Control Management) system, in order to deploy applications.
Currently the Rubyists.EU platform is isolated from …
- 80beans: Looking for Rails programmers
- Ruby on Rails Development: More Ruby / Rails trend indicators
- Lance: Converting an application from Ruby on Rails to Java and other misguided decisions
- Nikos D.: An interesting online learning community: LearnHub
- Andrzej on Software: A Guide to Deploying Rails Applications
- MetaSkills.net - Home: 757 Studio
…a gem, with a Vegas powered bin, and have an easily distributable browser-based application with JSON storage. The beauty of Cloudkit, is that besides Rack and Ruby, there arent really any other dependencies to worry about. I haven't tried it yet, but potentially, you could use Vegas to distribute a modern ( Rack-based) Rails app (the database part might be a little tough, though).
- Freelancing Gods: A Visit to Vegas
- Rails Dog: Vegas: First Impressions
- Home - Leading Ruby on Rails Development and Consulting firm in India - Vinsol: Why RailsConf at Las Vegas is a great opportunity for the community ?
- zerosum dirt(nap) - Home: The Way They Were Inside
- Dead Programmer Society: Fear And Loathing At RailsConf 2009