Managed to get a few bits and bobs sorted in a Rails project last night.
Posted on 2nd of March, 2010
- Twizzle Your Deplizzles - Great little script for updating a Twitter account with information on your latest release.
- Generic Actions in Rails 3 - Rails 3 gets a new feature courtesy of Django. I love how features trickle across open source frameworks over time.
- Creating a custom rake task - A great article to check out if your using Heroku to host your application.
- Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks - Is 2010 going to be the year of NoSQL?
- Edging your way towards Ruby 1.9.1 and Rails 3.0pre - If you haven't made the jump to Ruby 1.9.x then this is a good place to start.
I'm downing tools for the holiday season, so this will be the last post for the next couple of weeks, but normal posts will return in the New Year.
Happy holidays and all the best for the New Year!
Posted on 22nd of December, 2009
- Rango - A new web framework inspired by Django. Time will tell if people start using it as part of their development tool box.
- Introduction to MongoDB - Part 2 - A new series over at TeachMeToCode looks at using MongoDB and Sinatra. Part 1 is here. Watch out for the comments at the end!
Posted on 3rd of December, 2009
- First look at Rails 3.0 pre - If your itching to look at Rails 3.0, Nic Williams has a good guide to setting it up.
- More MongoMapper Awesomeness - Wow! MongoMapper is indeed awesome! Dynamic finders, logging, dirty attributes and more.
- EventMachine Examples - Mike Perham has a new Github repository for EventMachine examples. Check out the first one, a thumbnailing service using Thin.
Posted on 3rd of November, 2009
- Getting Started with MongoMapper and Rails - Looking to use MongoDB for your next Rails project? John Nunemaker has a great little tutorial to setting up a Rails application with MongoMapper.
- Rails BugMash - An upcoming event in which the RailsBridge community will provide support for developers who haven't contributed to the Rails source code, but would like to do so.
- Drag & Drop Sortable Lists - Nice little guide to using the acts_as_list plugin.
- Why Technical Marketing is Important for Programmers - Antonio Cangiano talks about marketing from a technical perspective using examples from the Ruby and Rails community as guides. If your developing your product and your primary field is software development, this is definitely worth a read.
Posted on 28th of July, 2009
- Control Flow Features And Readability - Next time you use control flow in your Ruby code, why not consider readability and maintainability?
- Rails Readable Test Names - Run single tests with their readable test name.
- Rails Test FAQ - The Non Code Version - Noel from PathFinder answers some faq’s on Rails testing.
- CouchDB With CouchReast In 5 Minutes - The Merbist gets you up to speed on some couch goodness.
Posted on 19th of May, 2009
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