- Roadmap for Learning Rails - An excellent guide on what you really need to know when you're learning Rails.
- Flutie - I might be tempted to use this just for the fact it has formtastic styles included.
- The Road to Rails 3 - Officially we're not there yet, but there's no harm in preparing your application at the moment for a future upgrade.
- What's New in Bundler 1.0.0.rc.1 - Bundler is nearing that big release.
- Rails 3.0 RC1 - No long until the official release now.
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My name is Matthew Lang, and I'm a software developer based just outside Glasgow in the UK.
I'm very interested in using agile methodologies such as XP to deliver projects with languages such as Ruby and open source frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Sinatra.
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Snippets #124
Posted on 27th of July, 2010
Snippets #120
It's amazing what a spot of re-factoring does to simplify your application. I just hope I haven't went too far.
- Sinatra-tests - This gem should come in handy for providing extra tests for my little Sinatra apps.
- Simpleconfig - I'm already using basic configuration settings in a couple of Rails apps, but this gem will make my settings easier to manage and use.
- Ruby 1.9.2 RC1 released - Good thing I'm using RVM.
I also started reading The Passionate Programmer last night. I'm already 50 pages into the book, so I'm aiming to finish it over the weekend. The best part will be putting some of this new found knowledge into action.
Posted on 8th of July, 2010
Snippets #118
- SimpleForm - A new gem from Plataforma to make building forms in Rails easier.
- Creating Configuration Files With Ruby Templates - I always forget that I could be using Ruby as a scripting tool to solve a few of my more mundane tasks of the day.
- Organizations for Small Businesses - GitHub is just getting better and better. Good to see it catering to small businesses as well now.
- Replace Cron with Clockwork - A new cron replacement with nice and simple syntax.
Posted on 1st of July, 2010
Snippets #116
Good to see that I can now have a little bit of the Rails community on my work desktop everyday.
- NorthScale Unleashes Membase Server - Another NoSQL offering, this time from the creators of memcached.
- Advanced Capistrano usage - 5 recipes to help ease the pain of application deployment and maintenance.
- Sprinkle - If you're in the habit of setting up virtual machines and application stacks, Sprinkle could help you automate the process.
Posted on 24th of June, 2010
Snippets #115
Now that Shoulda is being developed more to work with RSpec, I'm wondering if now is the time to jump into RSpec2.
- factory_girl 1.3: Integrating effectively with Rails 3 - A minor change if you want factory_girl to work in your Rails 3 projects.
- Rails 3 resource routes with dots - Don't get bitten by dots in your paths!
- RVM Gemsets + Bundler == Awesome - I'm already using RVM gemsets, but I might look at using Bundler soon.
Posted on 22nd of June, 2010
