We're exploring a new way to deal with mass-assignment protection in Rails. Or actually, it's not really a new way, it's more of an extraction of established practice with some vinegar mixed in for when you forget. This new approach is going to be a part of Rails 4.0 by default, but w...
Compass improves the Sass experience by providing useful mixins, functions, and more. You will also learn how to make CSS sprites with it in this episode.
Deploying a Rails application can be overwhelming because there are so many different options. Here I present a pattern for deploying a Rails app to a VPS using nginx, Unicorn, PostgreSQL, rbenv and more.
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→ Slightly Obtrusive JavaScript 31 May 2010 There are good things and bad things about "Unobtrustive JavaScript." One bad thing: it's hard to tell what JavaScript is touching an element. Idea: Only ever use classes and ids prefix with js- when touching the DOM with JavaScript. For exa...
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webmachine is a toolkit for building HTTP applications in a declarative fashion, that avoids the confusion of going through a CGI-style interface like Rack. It is strongly influenced by the original Erlang project of the same name and shares its opinionated nature about HTTP.
Hey Ryan, at the end when talking about Compass Reset and Normalize you mentioned that trying to make all browsers consistent isn't necessarily required for every website. I agree with you that it's not necessary to have your site look exactly the same, down to the pixel, across brows...
No big announcements this week, but due to travel, next week's Ruby Weekly might be a bit skinnier than usual, late, or not even turn up at all. Fingers crossed! :-) Headlines The Prags Release 'The dRuby Book' Learn from legendary Japanese Ruby hacker Masatoshi Seki in this first Eng...
Tore Darell , Posted February 21, 2010, 7:10 am I think one of the things that makes Ruby what it is is the forced encapsulation of attributes. Ruby objects don’t have attributes, they only have methods that access instance variables that are hidden from the outside. This contrasts wi...
Posted March 22, 2012 by schof | Comments A couple of weeks ago I went down to the Rackspace office and sat down for a quick interview with Robert Scoble . We also had a good discussion about Spree and took an in-depth look at the new Deployment Service . For me the highlight was show...
Any medium or large-sized website probably has a large amount of CSS spread across one or more stylesheets and the chances are that there are selectors in those stylesheets that are no longer used on any of the pages in that site. These selectors should be removed but they rarely are ...
rbfu - минималистичный менеджер версий RubyAlex Soulim У нас есть rvm , у нас есть rbenv , а теперь к ним добавился rbfu . Установка: git clone git://github.com/hmans/rbfu.git cd rbfu ./install.sh rbfu позволяет менять версии "налету", а ищет он их в каталоге $HOME/.rbfu/rubies/$VERSI...
Engine Yard Ticketing System Maintenance Our ticketing system provider, Zendesk, will be performing a two hour long scheduled maintenance on Saturday, March 24 from 4:00PM-6:00PM (Pacific Time) . During this maintenance, there will be periods where the site is unreachable and will tim...
Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 5:13AM Today it's off to the woods to play in the mud for the Boy Scouts. Continuous Cache Warming for Rails - If I said I'd never indulged in this sort of hackery I'd be lying. strong_parameters - Official Rails plugin to support taint and required checkin...
I've recently been writing up some material and using ERB to handle the majority of my formatting needs. For example, the code below shows what my template may start with. I use ERB to generate both .doc and .html files. If I generate an html file the above template will produce the h...
Our training team, Engine Yard University, will also be using virtualization. We decided to offer our next Zero to Rails 3 Ruby on Rails class virtually, as opposed to physically, to eliminate the expense and inconvenience of travel. In building this class, we wanted to provide a prac...
Nitro is an efficient, yet simple engine for developing professional Web Applications using the Ruby language. Development Status: 4 - Beta Environment: Console (Text Based) , Web Environment Intended Audience: Developers License: BSD License Natural Language: English Operating System...
A Fair Proxy Balancer for Nginx and Mongrel Posted by ezmobius Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:50:00 GMT Nginx is my favorite webserver as you astute reader all probably know. It’s very fast, light and rock solid in production. My only complaint was that the proxy modue was round robin only. This...
コマンドラインから RDoc で書かれた Ruby のリファレンスを引くことができます。 リファレンスは英語で書かれています。似たようなものに ReFe があります。 インストール ソースから Ruby をインストールしている場合は、デフォルトでインストールされているはずです。特に以下のように実行すると必要なものが全てインストールされます。 $ make install-doc ソースからでなくパッケージからインストールしている場合は、各パッケージに依存します。 使い方 以下のようにクラス名やモジュール名の完全な文字列を入力しなくても、リファレンスを引くことができ...
