Ruby on Rails news and blogs - May 07, 2010
Updated: 2010-05-31 20:54:08
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Real world Cassandra and Ruby
Updated: 2010-05-31 18:16:44My experiences building a high-throughput reporting system using Cassandra and Ruby.Daemonizing Navvy with God
Updated: 2010-05-31 15:15:44I just published an article about using God to daemonize and monitor the Navvy worker.Thinking Sphinx Performance - How to Index from Slave MySQL Database
Updated: 2010-05-31 12:40:24Part 1 of 3 covering some Thinking Sphinx performance tricks, part 1 shows you how to configure the sphinx indexer use your Slave MySQL database server.Translate Rails2/3 routes easily, Good for SEO and for customers
Updated: 2010-05-31 12:06:22, RubyFlow Ruby Community Link Blog Home Submit Sign Up Log In leaders Translate Rails2 3 routes easily , Good for SEO and for customers Posted by kwi on May 31, 2010 0 comments When dealing with websites with multiple languages locales , it's always great to also have your url translated . Google will really enjoy it and your customers will more feel like home . With the i18n_routing gem , it's easy , no change in your code is needed : just add translations through the i18n api And it's already working on Rails3 Comments Post a Comment Note : If you are a registered user , you can log in to populate these . fields Name Byline required You may use ONLY these HTML tags to format your : comment Do NOT use d e G willy p G bum r e c a t D bum e i d Enter the letters shown : above Top searchesEnglish 0.6
Updated: 2010-05-30 18:26:17I released English v0.6.0 yesterday. The API is looking pretty sweet. I'm quite happy with it. Most of the changes were under-the-hood, including a new dependency on the spun-off Language gem, but be sure to check out the Wiki for some helpful tips.Ruby Summer of Code Projects Announced
Updated: 2010-05-28 21:46:04Search Ruby Home Computing Technology Ruby Share Ruby Basics Practical Ruby Projects Free Ruby Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Michael's Ruby Blog By Michael Morin About.com Guide to Ruby My Bio My Blog My Forum Add to : iGoogle My Yahoo RSS Ruby Summer of Code Projects Announced Friday May 28, 2010 The Ruby Summer of Code projects have been announced . A Summer of Code refers to Google's original Summer of Code , where they would choose promising open source projects and support them financially so progress that otherwise wouldn't be made , would be made . While Google still holds Summer of Code and has since 2005 others have taken up the cause . The Ruby Summer of Code's sponsor list is quite impressive , and the list of projects even more . so Comments 0 See All Posts Share PrevUbiquo Categories released
Updated: 2010-05-28 18:16:55We just launched ubiquo categories a new plugin</a for the ubiquo CMS Framework.RubyRags (Ruby Clothing Site) For Sale
Updated: 2010-05-28 14:50:34Ryan Norbauer is selling his RubyRags.com, Ruby-related clothing site. In the last 2 years, it's taken in about $16K and fulfilment, etc, is handled by a third party. There's more information relating to the sale here.Travel To The Core Rails 3 Methods Without Leaving IRB Prompt
Updated: 2010-05-28 08:50:14method_extensions gem adds Method#source, Method#doc, and Method#super methods to the core Method object. Let's see how that can be used to travel the Rails source code.Ruby annotations
Updated: 2010-05-28 04:41:15Learn how to create Ruby annotations like this: class User admin_only def update; ... end endDataMapper 1.0.0 rc3 Released
Updated: 2010-05-27 23:00:20DataMapper 1.0.0 rc3 released. Several improvements and bug fixes since rc2. Approximately 50 tickets closed since 0.10.2.The Why, What, and How of Rubinius
Updated: 2010-05-26 21:40:01, , Search Ruby Home Computing Technology Ruby Share Ruby Basics Practical Ruby Projects Free Ruby Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Michael's Ruby Blog By Michael Morin About.com Guide to Ruby My Bio My Blog My Forum Add to : iGoogle My Yahoo RSS The Why , What , and How of Rubinius Wednesday May 26, 2010 Peter Cooper over at Ruby Inside has a great post on the history of Rubinius . It's a great , quick read to get up to speed on the most promising new Ruby implementation . So what are you waiting for Go get up to speed Comments 0 See All Posts Share Prev Comments No comments yet . Leave a Comment Leave a Comment Name Email never displayed URL Your Comment Line and paragraph breaks are automatic . Some HTML allowed : Say It Must Reads A Beginner's Guide to Ruby Install Ruby GettingRPCFN: Business Hours (#10)
Updated: 2010-05-25 04:30:01
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Business Hours (#10)
By Ryan Bates
About Ryan Bates
Ryan Bates has been involved in web development since 1998. In 2005 he started working professionally with Ruby and Rails and is now best known for his work on Railscasts, the free Ruby on Rails screencast series.
Ryan has this to say about the challenge:
Sometimes [...]How Fast Are the New Guys?
Updated: 2010-05-24 21:39:35Search Ruby Home Computing Technology Ruby Share Ruby Basics Practical Ruby Projects Free Ruby Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Michael's Ruby Blog By Michael Morin About.com Guide to Ruby My Bio My Blog My Forum Add to : iGoogle My Yahoo RSS How Fast Are the New Guys Monday May 24, 2010 We recently told you about the release of Rubinius 1.0 and jRuby 1.5.0 both of which should be faster than their predecessors , and possibly faster than MRI itself . But the guys over at should_be awesome have really put this to the test , running the Ruby benchmark suite with Rubinius 1.0, jRuby 1.5.0, MRI 1.9.2-head and MRI 1.8.7. The results are available in a quite large table . Fastest results of each test are in blue , and you can see that in quite a few tests , Rubinius is coming out . aheadWhat is Padrino?
Updated: 2010-05-21 22:34:51Search Ruby Home Computing Technology Ruby Share Ruby Basics Practical Ruby Projects Free Ruby Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Michael's Ruby Blog By Michael Morin About.com Guide to Ruby My Bio My Blog My Forum Add to : iGoogle My Yahoo RSS What is Padrino Friday May 21, 2010 Padrino is a web application framework built on Sinatra . This might sound a bit odd , a framework built on a framework , but one of Sinatra's core principals is to stay small and elegant . While this is good Sinatra is only about 1,500 lines of code it does leave a little to be desired . Where Sinatra is a thin layer of mayonnaise on bread , Padrino is a second layer of mustard . It's not all that much either , but it brings a lot of flavor to the . party Read the complete article Comments 0 See All PostsInteresting Ruby and Rails Tidbits #31
Updated: 2010-05-20 15:14:02The latest installment of our series of roundup posts, covering some of our latest findings in the world of all things Ruby (or not). These items wouldn't make it in as separate posts, but they should be of enough interest to Rubyists generally to make it a worthwhile browse for most readers.MacRuby Screencast
Updated: 2010-05-19 21:32:48Search Ruby Home Computing Technology Ruby Share Ruby Basics Practical Ruby Projects Free Ruby Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Michael's Ruby Blog By Michael Morin About.com Guide to Ruby My Bio My Blog My Forum Add to : iGoogle My Yahoo RSS MacRuby Screencast Wednesday May 19, 2010 It's not often that this blog tries to sell you things , but this one might really be worth it . MacRuby is an emerging Ruby implementation that can be extremely useful to OSX Ruby coders . It allows you to easily interface with many native OSX APIs , including Cocoa and Grand Central Dispatch . But information about MacRuby can be hard to find . Well Renzo Borgatti has created a 48 minute long screencast explaining many of these features , organized into 14 chapters . The screencast is available now forThe Why, What, and How of Rubinius 1.0’s Release
Updated: 2010-05-18 14:00:19Rubinius or GitHub repo, an alternative Ruby implementation that's built in Ruby itself - as much as possible, has this last weekend hit the coding equivalent of a Bar Mitzvah.. its 1.0 release! Congratulations to the Rubinius team, past and present, and everyone who has helped with its release - I didn't know if you were going to make it for a moment there..RubyGems 1.3.7 Released
Updated: 2010-05-17 21:18:17Search Ruby Home Computing Technology Ruby Share Ruby Basics Practical Ruby Projects Free Ruby Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Michael's Ruby Blog By Michael Morin About.com Guide to Ruby My Bio My Blog My Forum Add to : iGoogle My Yahoo RSS RubyGems 1.3.7 Released Monday May 17, 2010 RubyGems 1.3.7 has been released . This is a small bugfix and feature enhancement release . There's no major differences between 1.3.6 and 1.3.7, but it's recommended that everyone . upgrade To upgrade to the latest RubyGems , : run gem update system you might need to be an administrator or root See the full announcement for more . details Comments 0 See All Posts Share Prev Comments No comments yet . Leave a Comment Leave a Comment Name Email never displayed URL Your Comment Line and paragraph breaksRubinius 1.0 Released
Updated: 2010-05-15 16:25:35Search Ruby Home Computing Technology Ruby Share Ruby Basics Practical Ruby Projects Free Ruby Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Michael's Ruby Blog By Michael Morin About.com Guide to Ruby My Bio My Blog My Forum Add to : iGoogle My Yahoo RSS Rubinius 1.0 Released Saturday May 15, 2010 Along with the JRuby 1.5.0 release earlier this week , Rubinius has hit 1.0 This is a huge milestone for the Rubinius . project What is Rubinius It's an MRI 1.8.7 compatible Ruby implementation that takes a bit of a different approach . Where MRI interprets with 1.8.x or compiles to bytecode with 1.9.x Rubinius plugs into LLVM to compile bytecode to machine code at runtime . This , combined with fast native function calls , should means Rubinius is much , much faster than MRI or even . JRuby For moreJRuby 1.5.0 Released
Updated: 2010-05-14 06:11:50Search Ruby Home Computing Technology Ruby Share Ruby Basics Practical Ruby Projects Free Ruby Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Michael's Ruby Blog By Michael Morin About.com Guide to Ruby My Bio My Blog My Forum Add to : iGoogle My Yahoo RSS JRuby 1.5.0 Released Friday May 14, 2010 JRuby 1.5.0 has been released It's been a long time in the works , JRuby 1.4.0 was released nearly 5 months . ago The changes from 1.4.0 to 1.5.0 are far too numerous to list . In all , there were 1250 commits since 1.4.0. The focus , however , has been compatibility . For the most part , JRuby is compatible with MRI , but as with anything of this nature , there are a million little incompatibilities that pop up that have to be taken care of . But of course there have been some performance improvements8 Ruby and Rails Jobs for May 2010
Updated: 2010-05-13 01:17:09Need a new Ruby or Rails job? They're getting posted daily on jobs.rubynow.com but we've got 8 special ones of our own that have come in via the Ruby Inside jobs board. Jobs this month come from the United Kingdom and the US and, as is proving typical, are Rails heavy.JRuby 1.5.0 Released: The Best Alternative Ruby Implementation Gets Even Better
Updated: 2010-05-13 00:50:05Following on five months after the release of the popular JRuby 1.4, the JRuby team have delivered JRuby 1.5!Book Promotion: The Joy of Clojure
Updated: 2010-05-08 02:08:18Book Promotion: The Joy of Clojure RubyLearning is pleased to announce the promotion of the book “The Joy of Clojure” by author Michael Fogus and Chris Houser. The general idea of a book promotion is that it gives the participants a chance to ask relevant questions, interact with the author of the book and in the [...]Pusher: WebSocket-powered Realtime Browser Push Service for Rubyists
Updated: 2010-05-08 00:05:58Pusher is a new Web service from New Bamboo that makes it easy to push data to users of your web applications "live", outside of the request response cycle. They've embraced Web Sockets technology and built a REST API to which you can post events. Its flexible channels are based on a publish/subscribe model and you can send events as JSON which communicate with all connected browsers.MacRuby 0.6 Released
Updated: 2010-05-07 18:16:22Search Ruby Home Computing Technology Ruby Share Ruby Basics Practical Ruby Projects Free Ruby Newsletter Sign Up Discuss in my Forum Michael's Ruby Blog By Michael Morin About.com Guide to Ruby My Bio My Blog My Forum Add to : iGoogle My Yahoo RSS MacRuby 0.6 Released Friday May 7, 2010 MacRuby , the Ruby interpreter featuring tight integration with Apple OSX has reached 0.6. The highlights of the release are as . follows Stable for Cocoa development . This allows direct access to all of OSX's native APIs , among other . things Debugging . An experimental debugging feature has been implemented , allowing you to debug your programs via a command-line program . This is experimental and unfinished , but . functional Higher-level APIs for Grand Central Dispatch . GCD is a task parallelismRDropbox: A Ruby Client Library for Dropbox
Updated: 2010-05-06 00:05:37Dropbox is a popular file hosting service (4m+ users) that provides synced backup and file hosting to OS X, Windows, and Linux users. You get up to 2GB of space for free. RDropbox is a library by Tim Morgan (of Autumn fame) that takes advantage of the official Dropbox API from Ruby.3 New Date and Time Libraries for Rubyists
Updated: 2010-05-05 15:30:14In the UK there's a cliché that goes: "You wait hours for a bus, and then three come along at once!" So it went with these three Ruby date and time libraries. They all made an appearance on RubyFlow last week and are all useful in their own ways, depending on how you're working with dates and times.