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1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rescue-me/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rescue-me/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:00:13 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rescue-me/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/six-best-talks-from-lsrc-2010/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/six-best-talks-from-lsrc-2010/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:00:22 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/six-best-talks-from-lsrc-2010/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/ruby-number-readability-tip/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/ruby-number-readability-tip/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:00:09 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/ruby-number-readability-tip/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/my-cucumber-best-practices-and-tips/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/my-cucumber-best-practices-and-tips/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:00:13 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/my-cucumber-best-practices-and-tips/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/lockdown-authorization-for-rails-2-0-released/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/lockdown-authorization-for-rails-2-0-released/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:00:09 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/lockdown-authorization-for-rails-2-0-released/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/incoming-email-in-rails-3-choosing-the-right-approach/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/incoming-email-in-rails-3-choosing-the-right-approach/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:00:13 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/incoming-email-in-rails-3-choosing-the-right-approach/ In this Blog Post I take a look at some of the options available to get incoming email in Rails 3 and some of the things worth considering. by Ruby Flow

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rvm-and-cron-in-production/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rvm-and-cron-in-production/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:00:10 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rvm-and-cron-in-production/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-ruby-and-jquery-documentation-into-mac-os-dictionary/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-ruby-and-jquery-documentation-into-mac-os-dictionary/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:00:09 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-ruby-and-jquery-documentation-into-mac-os-dictionary/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-test-prescriptions-beta-7-now-available/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-test-prescriptions-beta-7-now-available/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:00:15 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-test-prescriptions-beta-7-now-available/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/platypus/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/platypus/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:00:08 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/platypus/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/speeding-up-rails-rake/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/speeding-up-rails-rake/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:00:06 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/speeding-up-rails-rake/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-best-practices-6-filters-and-helpers-file/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-best-practices-6-filters-and-helpers-file/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:00:17 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-best-practices-6-filters-and-helpers-file/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/dry-bundler-in-capistrano/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/dry-bundler-in-capistrano/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:00:07 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/dry-bundler-in-capistrano/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/radix-1-1-0/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/radix-1-1-0/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:00:09 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/radix-1-1-0/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/zeromq-modern-fast-networking-stack/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/zeromq-modern-fast-networking-stack/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:00:09 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/zeromq-modern-fast-networking-stack/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/new-site-launched-for-for-the-ruby-on-rails-developer-community/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/new-site-launched-for-for-the-ruby-on-rails-developer-community/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:09 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/new-site-launched-for-for-the-ruby-on-rails-developer-community/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/coderpath-podcast-interview-with-gregg-pollack/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/coderpath-podcast-interview-with-gregg-pollack/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:00:07 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/coderpath-podcast-interview-with-gregg-pollack/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-html-5-and-client-side-forms-validations-using-validator/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-html-5-and-client-side-forms-validations-using-validator/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:00:06 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-html-5-and-client-side-forms-validations-using-validator/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/how-to-build-a-8220spy-camera8221-app-for-an-android-phone-with-ruby-and-sinatra/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/how-to-build-a-8220spy-camera8221-app-for-an-android-phone-with-ruby-and-sinatra/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:00:05 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/how-to-build-a-8220spy-camera8221-app-for-an-android-phone-with-ruby-and-sinatra/ In Turn your Android Phone Into a Remote Spy Camera with Ruby in 15 Minutes, Mike Leone demonstrates how to use Ruby, Sinatra and Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) to build and deploy a phone-hosted "spy camera" Web service.

SL4A is a system that allows you to run "scripting language" scripts and interactive interpreters on the Android platform. It currently supports JRuby, Python, Perl, Lua, JavaScript, BeanShell, and Tcl. Mike demonstrates how to set up a Sinatra project to use SL4A to run on an Android phone using JRuby. Upon receiving a request, Mike's app takes a picture using the phone's camera and serves it back over HTTP. He has also released the source code to a larger Ruby app called Broadcast that implements general Android device management functionality over HTTP.
Even if you don't want to build a "spy camera", Mike's walkthrough is a must-read if building Web services in Ruby that can run directly on the Android platform is of interest to you.




1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/deploy-your-rails-3-applications-a-la-heroku-with-inploy/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/deploy-your-rails-3-applications-a-la-heroku-with-inploy/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:00:18 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/deploy-your-rails-3-applications-a-la-heroku-with-inploy/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/want-to-know-about-riak-learn-how-it-can-help-you-scale-your-rails-app/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/want-to-know-about-riak-learn-how-it-can-help-you-scale-your-rails-app/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:09 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/want-to-know-about-riak-learn-how-it-can-help-you-scale-your-rails-app/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/deploy-a-rails-3-sqlite3-application-in-tomcat-using-jruby/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/deploy-a-rails-3-sqlite3-application-in-tomcat-using-jruby/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:08 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/deploy-a-rails-3-sqlite3-application-in-tomcat-using-jruby/
I also included the problems I encountered along the way and how to solve them. by Ruby Flow

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/how-to-properly-check-for-your-ruby-interpreter-version-and-os/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/how-to-properly-check-for-your-ruby-interpreter-version-and-os/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:00:13 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/how-to-properly-check-for-your-ruby-interpreter-version-and-os/ * OS: returns the current operating system
* RubyEngine: returns the current Ruby implementation
* RubyVersion: returns the current Ruby version by Ruby Flow

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/allowing-devise-login-with-facebook-account/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/allowing-devise-login-with-facebook-account/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:15 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/allowing-devise-login-with-facebook-account/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/put-scripts-at-the-bottom/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/put-scripts-at-the-bottom/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:13 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/put-scripts-at-the-bottom/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/videos-from-rubykaigi-2010/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/videos-from-rubykaigi-2010/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:09 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/videos-from-rubykaigi-2010/
The talks at RubyKaigi 2010 had a mix up Japanese and English language speakers, including Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, Chad Fowler, Yugui and the Ruby Core team, Yehuda Katz, and many more. by Ruby Flow

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/bddcasts-on-rails3-and-cucumber/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/bddcasts-on-rails3-and-cucumber/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:00:21 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/bddcasts-on-rails3-and-cucumber/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/ruby-challenge-economics-101/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/ruby-challenge-economics-101/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:00:10 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/ruby-challenge-economics-101/ Anyone can take part in the Ruby Challenge and you could win a prize too. by Ruby Flow

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/dalli-memcached-for-ruby/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/dalli-memcached-for-ruby/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:00:12 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/dalli-memcached-for-ruby/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rubydoc-info-good-looking-up-to-date-ruby-documentation/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rubydoc-info-good-looking-up-to-date-ruby-documentation/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:00:05 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rubydoc-info-good-looking-up-to-date-ruby-documentation/ RubyDoc.info is a new, automatically updated Ruby documentation site by Loren Segal and Nick Plante that builds upon their earlier success with rdoc.info (which we posted about in 2009). It's powered by YARD, a tool that puts out great looking Ruby documentation (there'll be more about YARD in a post later this week).
RubyDoc.info automatically generates documentation for all gems on rubygems.org (it updates its index once per day) but it does GitHub-hosted projects too. For RubyDoc.info to automatically update with documentation for your Ruby-related GitHub project, use the "Add Project" link on RubyDoc.info and then add http://rubydoc.info/checkout as one of your post-commit hook URLs in your repository's settings - on each future commit, your latest documentation will be built on RubyDoc.info.




1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/27-video-presentations-from-rubykaigi-2010/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/27-video-presentations-from-rubykaigi-2010/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:00:10 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/27-video-presentations-from-rubykaigi-2010/ RubyKaigi is Japan's "home" Ruby conference and the organizers have just put 27 videos from the RubyKaigi 2010 conference online. Unfortunately I can't link to them individually as they're embedded on a single page, so head over to rubykaigi.tdiary.net and check them out.
Presentation titles include: Ruby 2.0, Ruby API is Improved Unix API, Rocking The Enterprise With Ruby, Mapping the World with DataMapper, The Necessity and Implementation of Speedy Tests, A Metaprogramming Spell Book, Conflicts and Resolutions in Ruby and Rails, and User Experience for Library Designers.
Two caveats: 1) Be aware that some of the presentations are in Japanese (unsurprisingly) although most of the slides include English and, of course, any Ruby is still readable. There were also several English language speakers including Sarah Mei, Carl Lerche, and Jake Scruggs. 2) The player/hosting for the videos seems to be super slow. Give it time and they'll load.
[jobs] Engine Yard are hiring! Did you know that Engine Yard - one of the biggest and brightest companies in the Ruby world - are hiring? They have Ruby Engineer and Ruby App Support Engineer positions open in San Francisco.




1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-upgrade-handbook-9-special/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-upgrade-handbook-9-special/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:00:08 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-upgrade-handbook-9-special/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/how-to-build-a-simple-object-mapper/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/how-to-build-a-simple-object-mapper/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:00:17 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/how-to-build-a-simple-object-mapper/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rocking-the-enterprise-with-ruby/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rocking-the-enterprise-with-ruby/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:00:16 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rocking-the-enterprise-with-ruby/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-0-released-and-22-free-videos-to-bring-you-up-to-speed/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-0-released-and-22-free-videos-to-bring-you-up-to-speed/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:00:06 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/rails-3-0-released-and-22-free-videos-to-bring-you-up-to-speed/ DHH rings the bell and announces that Rails 3.0 (final) has been released after two years of determined effort by the Rails core team (and, significantly, Merb team members, since Rails 3.0 is heavily influenced by the Merb merger). Grab it now with gem install rails --version 3.0.0 or, if you're in no rush, Rails 3.0.1 might come along within a week or two.
The Videos
DHH gives a quick roundup of some of Rails 3's new features but like Emma Watson's head PhotoShopped onto yet another naked body, it's nothing you haven't seen before. If you're really fresh to Rails 3.0, though, Gregg does an admirable job of boiling everything down into a digestible format with his (free!) Dive Into Rails 3.0 screencast series:

Getting Started and Action Dispatch
Bundler and Action Mailer
Active Relation and Active Model
Cross-site scripting and Unobtrusive JS
The New Action Controller

Ryan Bates has also produced a fistful of his typically succinct but precise RailsCasts videos on a wide array of Rails 3.0 topics. Ryan always focuses on code and practicalities so these are a good place to start if you want to follow along and do some coding yourself:

Upgrading to Rails 3.0: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3
Routing in Rails 3
Active Record Queries in Rails 3
Advanced Queries in Rails 3
Controllers in Rails 3
Rack in Rails 3
Subdomains in Rails 3
Active Model
Generators in Rails 3
Making Generators in Rails 3
Validations in Rails 3
ERB Blocks in Rails 3
Action Mailer in Rails 3
XSS Protection in Rails 3
Bundler

If you don't like videos, still follow the links, because there are links to the ASCIIcasts regular HTML versions of the Railscasts videos. These are regular blog posts that you can follow at your own pace.
Or some books
Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial book is the #1 (and only, in my opinion) place to start when it comes to books about learning Rails 3.0. Not only is it available to read for free online, but you can buy a well formatted PDF too. It's an amazing piece of work and, unusually, walks you through building a Rails app from start to finish with testing. If you want to just read one book/site and feel like a Rails 3.0 master by the end of it, pick RailsTutorial.org.
If you speak German, though, check out this "Ruby on Rails 3" book by Michael Voigt and Stefan Tennigkeit. It's one of the first Rails 3.0 specific books to hit the presses.
Or just dive into some code
If you want to just "get started" and check out a working Rails 3.0 application, try Daniel Kehoe's Rails3-Subdomain-Devise app. It's a basic Rails 3.0 app that demonstrates using the Devise authentication system, as well as custom subdomain access. Not just that, but Daniel has put together a walkthrough of how the app works and how it was put together.




1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/ann-resque-retry-v0-1-0-failure-backend-resque-web-tab/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/ann-resque-retry-v0-1-0-failure-backend-resque-web-tab/ Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:00:09 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/ann-resque-retry-v0-1-0-failure-backend-resque-web-tab/
* Added a multiple failure backend, with retry suppression (no more spamming your failed queue).
* Added a resque-web tab for viewing retry information. by Ruby Flow

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/euruko-2010-summaries-videos-and-photos-from-europe8217s-ruby-conference/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/euruko-2010-summaries-videos-and-photos-from-europe8217s-ruby-conference/ Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:00:06 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/euruko-2010-summaries-videos-and-photos-from-europe8217s-ruby-conference/ One of the event's organizers, Ela Madej, gives a summary:
European Ruby Conference 2010 is now well over and the Berlin EuRuKo 2011 team are surely working on their opening song for the next year. Yes, we all know they sing well - their uber-strong German vocal was nothing but adorable.
Despite the flooding and changing the conference venue just one week before the event, EuRuKo was great! It was filled with fantastic talks and Rubyists from all over the planet. Here are some numbers: around 121 Poles (less than half of all 280 attendees), at least 40 Germans, Rubyists from Japan, Austria, Spain, UK, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA, Cuba, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, The Netherlands, Latvia, Italy, France, Belgium, Brasil and more.
For everyone who missed the event, the videos from the conference are on Vimeo. There is also a great summary of the talks for Day One and
Day Two. Here are the links to EuRuKo official photos on Flickr for Day One and Day Two also.Ela Madej
While there are 37 videos on offer, some standouts include:

Let's Remodel That Game by Tim Lossen.
How to Rate A Rails Application by Elise Huard.
Mislav Marohnić talks about how code is loaded in Ruby (in quite some detail!)
Spoiling the Youth with Ruby by Karel Minarik (organizer of EuRuKo 2008)
Matz's keynote
DSL or no DSL by Jose Valim (of Rails core)

EuRuKo is supported by not only by Rubyists paying to attend but by quite a few sponsors, with 2010's event no exception. The organizers asked me to specially thank their biggest sponsor Novelys - a team of French Ruby on Rails experts. On top of that, EuRuKo's afterparty sponsors were Applicake and Lunar Logic Polska, two Ruby development teams from Poland. Finally, 16 micro sponsors helped out too.
I've been a keen supporter of EuRuKo since the first event so a big thanks to all of the sponsors and attendees for supporting Ruby's principal Ruby conference. Now, go enjoy those videos.




1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/wanna-ask-for-a-new-tutorial-just-do-it/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/wanna-ask-for-a-new-tutorial-just-do-it/ Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:00:07 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/wanna-ask-for-a-new-tutorial-just-do-it/
1 Vote(s) ]]> http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/dsl-a-small-library-for-creating-domain-specific-languages-dsls/ http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/dsl-a-small-library-for-creating-domain-specific-languages-dsls/ Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:00:08 +0300 RubyFlow News http://railsforge.com/ruby-news/dsl-a-small-library-for-creating-domain-specific-languages-dsls/
1 Vote(s) ]]>