2008

The Rails Documentation App - Rails-doc.org

Clean your configuration with...

Community Engine | A Social Networking Plugin...

Dynamically created methods in Ruby

“Imagine trying to make a Rails project LSB compliant —...”
— Puppet Blog: Development and...

flamefest: Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby...

rails: Using Thin Instead Of Mongrel

rails: From Param: How URL-Based Fetching...

“the only writing that is of great value anymore is that...”
— Rex Hammock

“It may be easier than ever to build something and, perhaps...”
— Why Johnny Can’t Scale

Hey Rails, nice Rack!

Building a Social Network Site in Rails

rails: Database agnostic != database...

What's up in Ruby? - Niche search engine

rails: Creating More Using Less Effort with...

rails: Fail Early with misconfigured MySql...

Better Redirects in Rails

msysgit - Windows git Client

“Do stuff, instead of trying to make the non-stuff you are...”
— AJ Valliant

The new attack on the RDBMS

“anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t...”
— Robert Benchley

Using InnoSetup to Build a...

I’m going to go into this one in more detail on the main blog sometime in the future. But...

“Success is the continued absence of failure.”
— NOOP

Ruby River - FriendFeed

Book Review: Design Patterns in Ruby

Mini reviews of 19 Ruby template engines

CruiseControl.rb - support cvs

Ruby GUI Toolkits

“Seriously, it is almost impossible to be fired as a...”
— Raganwald

Using New Gem Generator in Windows

Virtual Rails

gems: Duration in Ruby on Rails

rails/plugin: Rails schema browser plugin:...

RubyFlow : Community Filtered Ruby News

gems: Ruby-GitHub: Simple Access to the...

rails/plugin: Better Partials Plugin for...

“class BufferedConnection”
— Method Injection

MyBlogLog Claim

“The fact of the matter is that monkeys simply aren’t very...”
— Virtuous Code ›...

“According to my preliminary tests, using Crack makes you 5...”
— Announcing Ruby on Crack (via...

Rails Admins Plugins Review

“In the frenzy for viral loops and SEO, we quietly chugged...”
— Tony Wright of RescueTime

“What kinda fuckin’ drugs was Larry Wall smokin’...”
— Badtux the Snarky Penguin:

“A novice had a problem and could not find a solution....”
— Erik Naggum

“That whole WWJD thing bugs me. People have been claiming to...”
— TweetJeebus

“But there’s another point of view, which says that...”
— Giles Bowkett

Abusing Ruby’s question mark methods.

“EMAIL shall henceforth be known as EFAIL”
— Tantek

Seeing Metaclasses Clearly

“If you want people to like you, first decide who needs to...”
— Dan Heath and Chip Heath

“Please, think of the children before you re-open their...”
— Zed Shaw

“One of the things that’s really great about agile...”
— Zed Shaw

“When a language is only a few years old, the amount of code...”
— Sustainable Development in...

rails/plugin: PreferenceFu

“Many products fall into the vitamin category. Things like...”
— Don Dodge

Snarl

rails/plugin: For attaching files, use...

gem: Feed Normalizer

“I knew Jon Postel. He was quite unhappy with how his...”
— Jon Postel - Stu says stuff

Stupid technorati claim thingy Technorati Profile

rails: Lovd By Less -- rails social network...

“Great jobs, world class jobs, jobs people kill for…...”
— Seth Godin: Why bother having...

mysql: 10 Tips for Optimizing MySQL Queries...

ClassNamer

rails search benchmarks

rest-client, fetch RESTful resources...

Turn Your Ruby on Rails App into a...

Top 5 Ruby Presentations on Google engEDU...

rails: rspec plain text stories + webrat =...

Installing ruby-prof as a plugin on...

gem install ruby-profcp -r $GEM_HOME/gems/ruby-prof-0.6.0/rails_plugin/ruby-prof vendor/plugins More...

rails/performance: Making Rails Go Vroom

rails/mysql: Load your production...

Assuming you’re using the db:backup rake task. mysql -u root railsapp_development <...

rails.plugins: Getting attachment_fu to play...

“If the Python guys are boring, then that’s just fucking...”
— Zed Shaw — 2008-03-14

How not to replace WEBrick with Thin

engtech ~/rails_app 423> gem install thinBulk updating Gem source index for:...

ruby on windows: andLinux

“One of the great leaps in OO is to be able to answer the...”
— Squeak by Example (via...

rails: 9 Essential Rails Tips

gem: Google Base Class

ares: Consume non rails-style REST API's

dsl: The 'Language' in Domain-Specific...

gem: rolerequirement

gem: rAtom 0.2.1 Gem released

TDD on Three Index Cards

gems: Win32 Utils: Project Info

rails,mysql: MySQL InnoDB Clustered Indexes...

gem: Invocation Construction Kit

plugins: Markaby vs Haml vs ERB for Page...

plugin: assert_valid_markup

Rails 2.0.1 Todo List tutorial

Rake Task for Database Backups

Rake Task for MySQL Backup to Amazon S3

rails/gem: FrozenGemsGenerator

rake: Validating Fixtures

rails: Postcards from a .NET Tourist in...

rails: Vendor Everything

plugin: generate CSS template off of existing...

[RUBY] Monkey Patching Ruby, just like in The...

rails: Returning supported HTTP methods with...

Two months with Ruby on Rails

gotAPI/HTML - Instant search in HTML and...

rails: xss-shield

“First off, let me say you should never modify a migration...”
— Josh Susser, being right. (via...

“This has probably been the most overlooked...”
— Zed Shaw: You Used Ruby to...

RubyWebDialogs - The Web Browser as a...

Rake RDocTask with all of the options...

http://pastie.caboo.se/159372 # Rake RDocTask with all of the options stubbed out. ...

Rake: Recursively parse a list of all...

There’s probably an easier way to do this. http://pastie.caboo.se/159362  # Recursively parse...

“I showed the code to my coworker and we had a good laugh. It...”
— File: rake rational.rdoc

Rake has printf for file paths?!

I Can Has RSS?

I’ve switched to FeedBurner for RSS support. And set up full feeds, thanks to Alex. (I had no...

Bulk updating Gem source

gem install allisonBulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org I swear to god that...

Rake Tip: force tasks to run based on...

http://pastie.caboo.se/158812 task :windows_only do raise "Must be run from Windows, not...

“Now, computer syntax is hard enough. But when your syntax...”
— Rake Rocks!

Rake Tip

BAD: s.gsub(/.rb$/,’.exe’) GOOD:  File.basename(s).ext(‘exe’)

“But be that as it may, where you and I differ is that I am...”
— Raganwald on Coding Horror:...

gilesgoatboy: @codinghorror honestly, dude, Mac vs. PC? in 2008? I know it wasn't you who started it, but honestly, don't you have any pride?
codinghorror: @gilesgoatboy I don't see it as Mac vs. PC so much as three-name-people vs. the world

“What purpose does the statement “stigma of being a...”
— Coding Horror: Douchebaggery

plugins: Bj (successor to backgroundrb?)

rails: Skinny Request, Fat Backend - Scaling...

Rails: how to delete ActiveRecords to a...

The contenders: acts_as_paranoid - 2005-09-17  Creates a delete_at column and overrides finders to...

add a counter cache to an existing db table -...

add a counter cache to an existing db table -...

“You know how Perl lets you bash out a five line program that...”
— 9 reasons why you should build...

Blueprint's compress.rb: A Walkthrough

RubyRags // Ruby and Ruby on Rails t-shirts for stylish...

“I was so disgusted by REXML when writing a Ruby app a year...”
— Eli Bendersky

Shoes App List: The Shoebox

Tools: ack -- better than grep, a power...

Plugin: xss_terminate: Auto-escaping HTML...

gem: New Gem Generator

validates_presence_of and...

Pick one: validates_presence_of :snausages validates_length_of :snausages, :maximum => 3OR...

Plugins: has_finder

Testing: Tarantula does input testing to your...

Making ActiveResource faster with libxml-ruby...

How to install gems from googlecode.com

Garbage Collection is Why Ruby on Rails is...

Optimizing Rails

Autotest + Mumbles (growl alternative) on...

table indexes in rails

Indexing Rails for DB performance

MYSQL on Rails

Plugin: Foreign Key Migrations

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