Same Pivotal, Increased Velocity edit Posted by Rob Mee on Friday March 16, 2012 at 06:32PM Looks like the word is out. We'll have more news on Tuesday but we want you to know we're excited about the future. Same services, same Pivotal Tracker, same industry leading development practi...
#201 Bundler (revised) Mar 16, 2012 | 9 minutes | Tools , Plugins Bundler makes it easy to manage Ruby Gem dependencies. Learn how to use it in a Rails application, see what's new in Bundler 1.1, convenient ways to run bundle exec, and how to fix gem compilation issues. Subscribe to W...
Gitara - A Ruby DSL for generating Lilypond guitar tablatures Posted by gsmendoza on March 17, 2012 — 0 comments Gitara is a Ruby DSL for generating Lilypond guitar tablatures. At 0.4.2, it's still a work in progress. But you should now be able to write some decent guitar tablatures w...
Posted March 17, 2012 by schof | Comments This year is shaping up to be another year of tremendous growth in the Spree community with an ever growing number of awesome contributors helping out with the effort. We also held our first ever SpreeConf where I presented a talk on the Spree...
Wiserespond - one more way to make your controllers DRY Posted by alexandrov on March 17, 2012 — 0 comments Just crafted small Gem to make your controllers even more DRYer and extremely easy to understand. Hope it will be useful. https://github.com/igor-alexandrov/wiserespond https://...
are protective blocks where SQL statements are only permanent if they can all succeed as one atomic action. The classic example is a transfer between two accounts where you can only have a deposit if the withdrawal succeeded and vice versa. Transactions enforce the integrity of the da...
Avdi Grimm—the author of one of my favorite Ruby books, Exceptional Ruby —just published his new notebook on thoughtful and advanced object-oriented design, available online for free. With practical advice about dependency injection, introduction of the Exhibit pattern (an alternative...
I am absolutely thrilled to announce that JRuby has been accepted as an organization for Google Summer of Code 2012! http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/jruby JRuby is already an excellent project, but as a student or mentor you can help make it even more amazing! W...
nIf you look back at the history of Perl, which is where 'and' and 'or' come from, they were explicitly introduced not for readability, but because sometimes the low precedence operators were what you wanted. In Perl, with it's assignment contexts, it really makes sense. Code like: my...
Let’s say that a client asks us to build them a site for a piano store. This site will be called Piano Plus and will have information about the store, a page where users can browse through the store’s stock of pianos and also one that shows the store’s location. There’s not much user ...
The year 2011 saw RubyLearning’s awesome guest authors write and share their knowledge with others. If you missed any of these useful articles then here’s the roundup of the 5 most popular articles of 2011 on RubyLearning . Enjoy! Throw, Catch, Raise, Rescue… I’m so confused! Avdi Gri...
milkode 0.5.2 Line based local source code search engine & grep-command & web-app. install gem install milkode Download Documentation Subscribe Stats Authors ongaeshi 3,434 total downloads 13 for this version Owners Links Homepage Bundler gem "milkode", "~> 0.5.2" Versions 0.5.2 March...
"Advanced Rails Design: Use Fancy OO Techniques Without Turning Ruby into Java" by Noel Rappin As Rails applications have grown and become more complex, limitations of the classic "Fat model, skinny controller" architecture have become evident. Large model classes and tight database c...
"Design a Cucumber/Selenium2/Rspec Test Suite Against a Source-Ambiguous Web Application that is both Powerful and Stakeholder-Friendly" by Sam Rawlins We will create a Cucumber/Selenium2/RSpec test suite against an existing, source-unavailable web app. We will quickly go over the Cuc...
romankana stats overview Overview 0.1.2 0.1.1 0.1.0 0.0.7 0.0.6 0.0.5 0.0.4 0.0.3 0.0.2 0.0.1 Roman Alphabet <-> Japanese Hiragana/Katkakana Convert Library for Ruby 1,518 total downloads 29 downloads today 1,926 / 25,300 highest rank today Help Guides Blog Contribute Mobile Status Up...
This is nice, Brian and I just rolled this from scratch on the current project. I had wished it was a gem, then lo and behold, here it is! It is a bit strange when you are used to pushing the same tag through all environments, but Brian eventually convinced me of the value of this. On...
