Parse Extensive Metadata from Images using RMagick Posted by cavneb on November 12, 2012 — 0 comments I wrote a gem which parses extensive metadata from images using RMagick. Check it out at https://github.com/cavneb/rmagick-metadata Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for n...
Phusion Passenger Enterprise - Nedap Healthcare Case Study Posted by FooBarWidget on November 12, 2012 — 0 comments In this case study , we see how the $100MM annual revenue Nedap Healthcare uses Phusion Passenger Enterprise to serve over 150,000 clients in the healthcare sector per d...
Collecting a list of Colleges/Universities that teach Ruby and/or Rails Posted by bcardarella on November 11, 2012 — 0 comments If you know of any please take a moment to list them I will follow up with the listing in about a week. Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non...
How do you check whether a date is in a date range? Posted by julian7 on November 11, 2012 — 0 comments We all know (start_date..end_date).include?(this_date) is quite slow. If you have seen Ben Orenstein's talk about refactoring , you might know (...).cover? is much faster... but is ...
"System" Gem Back Under Development Posted by c00lryguy on November 11, 2012 — 0 comments It has almost been 3 years since the system gem has last seen a git commit, but the project is now back in development ! System is a cross-platform and cross-implementation interface to gather sy...
is one of the most popular and easiest ways to craft high quality APIs in Ruby as used in large projects like Spree and foreman . As RABL's popularity has grown, I often get questions about improving performance of APIs as the volume of traffic for the web service increases. I release...
sport.db JSON(P) API Sample w/ Sinatra - Football Fixtures Web Service Posted by geraldbauer on November 10, 2012 — 0 comments I have created a little JSON/JSONP API service for the open sports database (that is, sport.db) using the Sinatra Ruby gem. For example, /api/event/en.2012_13...
Fork Your Application's Data (Not Just Your Code) Posted by schneems on November 08, 2012 — 0 comments Heroku just launched the ability to Fork your data from their postgres databases. Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deactivated, pe...
Posted by jstorimer on November 08, 2012 — 2 comments I wrote down some of my thoughts/observations from Rubyconf 2012 around threading and the GVL. A few of the speakers actually called this out as an issue and Matz addressed some of the questions in his Q&A. Read all about it .
Developing machine vision software with Ruby instead of C/C++ Posted by wedesoft on November 07, 2012 — 0 comments My thesis with the title "Efficient Implementations of Machine Vision Algorithms using a Dynamically Typed Programming Language " is now available for download. The thesi...
to improve documentation and ruby interfaces for beanstalkd , arguably one of the best job queues available for web applications today. First, we converted the beanstalkd protocol to markdown for better readability. Then, we introduced a brand new production-ready beanstalkd client ca...
Delegation on a method by method basis with Forwardable Posted by nashby on November 07, 2012 — 0 comments Read about object composition and delegation using Forwardable from Ruby Stdlib in this post . Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currentl...
#accepts_nested_attributes_for (often) considered harmful Posted by elight on November 07, 2012 — 0 comments Following up on the release of redtape , I wrote a blog post detailing why you should strongly consider it when reaching for #accepts_nested_attributes_for. Comments Post a...
A cleaner alternative to accepts_nested_attributes_for Posted by elight on November 06, 2012 — 2 comments Redtape provides an alternative to ActiveRecord::NestedAttributes#accepts_nested_attributes_for in the form of, well, a Form! The initial implementation was heavily inspired by "7...
Traitor - an implementation of traits for Ruby 2.0 Posted by txus on November 06, 2012 — 0 comments I just wrote about Traitor , an implementation of Traits for Ruby 2.0. Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deactivated, pending time to ...
Hacking mruby onto Heroku with Buildpacks Posted by schneems on November 06, 2012 — 0 comments Learn how buildpacks work while Hacking mruby onto Heroku . Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deactivated, pending time to add a proper CAP...
world.db - A Free Open World Database & Schema (Countries/Regions/Cities) Posted by geraldbauer on November 06, 2012 — 0 comments Hello, I've extracted from the sport.db/Sportbook all countries, regions and cities into its own free open database, that is, world.db. The open world data...
Jenkins CI setup for Rails application from scratch Posted by makaroni4 on November 06, 2012 — 0 comments In this blog post you can find sufficient manual how to install Jenkins CI on clean machine and configure it to build your Rails application. Comments Post a Comment Comment a...
Ruby 2.0 available on Pogoapp Posted by themgt on November 05, 2012 — 0 comments Pogoapp also just today added Ruby 2.0.0 preview support, and we've written a blog explaining how to use it in your app Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently...
Ruby 2.0 available on Heroku Posted by schneems on November 05, 2012 — 0 comments Haven't tried Ruby 2.0.0 yet? Not to worry Heroku has Ruby 2.0.0 Preview1 available right now. Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deactivated, pending ti...
Yet another ruby shootout Posted by alexandrov on November 05, 2012 — 0 comments I just posted a comparison of ruby-2.0.0-preview1, rubinius-2.0-rc1 and ruby-1.9.3-p286 in my blog. The most interesting for me seems the end of the story. Waiting for your comments. Comments Post a C...
allows you to easily slice up a spritesheet into Magick::Image s. The thought is that a spreadsheet contains many of a character's actions (standing, walking, jumping, etc..) which consist of many frames. This provides a DSL for defining those actions and where on the spritesheet each...
Value Struct Posted by happycode on November 05, 2012 — 0 comments Simple read-only structs in Ruby . Ready to be used everywhere! Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deactivated, pending time to add a proper CAPTCHA to solve the escala...
Rama: A CoffeScript TCP Terminal Proxy Posted by themgt on November 02, 2012 — 0 comments A blog post explaining the little CoffeeScript TCP terminal proxy app we wrote, named rama and (essentially) compatible with the heroku command line app's rendezvous client Comments Post a Co...
rails_best_practices 1.12.0 released Posted by flyerhzm on November 02, 2012 — 0 comments I just released rails_best_practices 1.12.0, it added NotRescueExceptionCheck, see more here . Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deactivated, pe...
A Ruby Rebus Challenge Posted by jerodsanto on November 02, 2012 — 0 comments Here's a fun little Ruby-based challenge heading into the weekend: can you figure out all 20 movie titles from these Ruby Rebuses ? Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are ...
GuerillaPatch: Monkey patch objects using Ruby 2.0 refinements, if available Posted by Perceptes on November 02, 2012 — 0 comments GuerillaPatch : A gem to monkey patch extensions with the same interface for Ruby 1.9 and Ruby 2.0. If run on Ruby 2.0, the new refinements feature will b...
We've seen lots of Rails app test suites that use WebMock to disable HTTP requests. There is also good tools like VCR and techniques like Fakes available for other HTTP requests made from Ruby. However, modern apps often make HTTP requests to external services from Javascript. We ofte...
Ruby Tidbits: String, the original value object Posted by ernie on November 01, 2012 — 0 comments I just wrote a quick article describing a simple pattern you can employ to reuse string formatting logic throughout your application and avoid making unnecessary regexp comparisons. Comme...
Ruby's "twiddle wakka" and why we don't use it Posted by croaky on October 31, 2012 — 0 comments Ruby has a "twiddle wakka" character that theoretically pairs perfectly with semantic versioning. In practice, however, we recommend locking the versions of gems in your Gemfile . Comments...
