IChannel v1.0.0: A modern & flexible interprocess communication(IPC) primitive. Posted by robgleeson on November 16, 2012 — 0 comments I just launched IChannel , a modern & flexible interprocess communication(IPC) primitive that can be used to send Ruby objects between a parent proces...
a redis-backed git server to replace gitolite Posted by themgt on November 15, 2012 — 0 comments Pogoapp recently replaced it's gitolite server and automation code with a significantly simpler, faster set of redis-backed ruby scripts. If you're trying to scale up complex multi-user gi...
Why do engineers suck at finding the right jobs Posted by mattetti on November 15, 2012 — 0 comments Even though we live in a very lucky time for software engineers, most of us have a hard time building a career and picking the right jobs , read why we suck at that, my own experience ...
Roswell: simple self-hosted password management server Posted by blahed on November 15, 2012 — 0 comments Roswell is a simple rails app that allows you to share passwords, notes, and software licenses with select groups of people. It has user and group management, search, favorites an...
Every web application has slow requests and the need for background jobs. Just published an article on the Miso engineering blog about asynchronous processing ; how it works, why you should never use a database for it, and what we should use. Check out the first part of what will be a...
Wait, Chrome DevTools could do THAT? Posted by igrigorik on November 14, 2012 — 0 comments Your browser is one of the most and best instrumented development platforms - you may just not realize it yet. Check out these videos to learn how to debug network, rendering, and javascript per...
Custom Wizard Urls in Rails with Wicked Gem Posted by schneems on November 14, 2012 — 0 comments You've heard of the Wicked gem, that awesome library for making step-by-step wizards in Rails. Wicked just added the ability to use custom urls in your wizards . It's simple, easy, and fle...
Why Ruby Class Methods Resist Refactoring Posted by brynary on November 14, 2012 — 0 comments I just wrote a blog post about Why Ruby Class Methods Resist Refactoring , the implications, and what you can do about it. Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered use...
JRuby at OpenFeint - a JRuby migration success story Posted by flyerhzm on November 14, 2012 — 0 comments JRuby at OpenFeint - a JRuby migration success story Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deactivated, pending time to add a proper...
rspec-rails and capybara 2.0: what you need to know Posted by alindeman on November 13, 2012 — 0 comments I blog about some changes coming down the pipeline in capybara 2.0. Comments Post a Comment Comment abilities for non registered users are currently deactivated, pending time ...
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...
