From the very start, all the apps we build come with a gem we built called Flutie . Flutie provides a stylesheet reset and most importantly, a method that adds a class name to the body element of every page. The body class name is made from the name of the controller and action respon...
f.lux: eyes-care for night-workers Posted by gravis on June 14, 2012 — 1 comment This post isn't related to ruby, but as hard ruby devs, we couldn't resist to share our experience with this tiny tool. It's 100% free and life-changing. Comments I use flux and really like it.schneem...
Global Hack Day #5 is today! Posted by seacreature on June 14, 2012 — 0 comments The idea of having weekly or monthly hack nights has worked great for Ruby users groups all over the world, but the folks at Mendicant University feel like the internet deserves a similar kind of event. T...
PHP has always been a popular language for writing Facebook apps – Facebook itself was originally written in PHP, after all – and at Engine Yard, we constantly keep an eye out for cool, new apps taking advantage of the PHP framework. In this blog post, I wanted to highlight several Fa...
It's the beginning of another course at the University of Texas, and i'm bringing the content direct to you. In this post of Databases & Rails: Week 1 Introduction you'll learn how the web works, how data stores are used to power the web, then we'll design a simple data store and see ...
newrelic-workling 1.0 released Posted by flyerhzm on June 14, 2012 — 0 comments If you are using workling and newrelic, be sure to checkout newrelic-workling 1.0 gem, and my post Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deactivated, pending ...
Trust plays a very important role at speakerconf. speakerconf is known as a place where you can be honest without fear of repercussions. Every year we have several presentations that are confidential, and those are often some of the most interesting presentations. Josh and I have made...
On Dec 17, 11:12 pm, "jwmerr...@gmail.com" <jwmerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Don't know exactly why, but wrapping alias in a class_eval seems to > fix the problem: > > class_eval("alias old_initialize initialize") > > Using ri, I couldn't even find who exactly alias belongs to (i.e. is >...
Debunking Responsive CSS Performance Myths Posted by igrigorik on June 14, 2012 — 0 comments Modern browsers are much smarter than most give them credit for. Myth #1: All stylesheets block rendering; Myth #2: CSS is always in the critical path. A look at under the hood of how WebKit h...
passenger 3.0.13 Easy and robust Ruby web application deployment. install gem install passenger Download Subscribe Stats Authors Phusion - http://www.phusion.nl/ 1,262,462 total downloads 348 for this version Owners Links Homepage Source Code Documentation Mailing List Bug Tracker Gem...
There have been times where I performed a rebase and had to resolve conflicts as part of the rebase, and then decided to abort the rebase for one reason or another. Without rerere the next time I went to perform the rebase I'd end up having to resolve at least some of the same conflic...
From the very start, all the apps we build come with a gem we built called Flutie . Flutie provides a stylesheet reset and most importantly, a method that adds a class name to the body element of every page. The body class name is made from the name of the controller and action respon...
While you should usually use resourceful routing, there are still many places where the simpler routing is more appropriate. There’s no need to try to shoehorn every last piece of your application into a resourceful framework if that’s not a good fit.
The make_resourceful plugin is a great way to DRY up the 7 RESTful actions common in most controllers. Learn how to use it in this episode.
A number of projects at Pivotal have been using Backbone.js to build single page web apps. I've enjoyed using Backbone: it's lightweight, unopinionated, helps encourage good separation of concerns between models and views, and reduces a fair bit of JavaScript boilerplate by bringing j...
ゴールデンウィーク中の5月5日にRails 3.1 beta1がリリース されました。 派手な点としてはJQuery, CoffeeScript, Sassなどをデフォルトして採用したことが挙げられますが、私が注目しているのはActive Recordに加えられたassign_attributes メソッドです。 その基本的な役割は、昔からあるattributes= メソッドと同じです。たとえば、User モデルとusers コントローラがあって、users#update アクションが次のように書かれているとします。 def update @user = User...
