You are currently browsing the monthly archive for June, 2008.
As the second quarter draws to an end, I’m starting to nose around for new projects to get involved with - preferably paying, perhaps otherwise.
- CRUD Scaffold Generator - Rails’ original non-RESTful scaffolding lives on in a plugin.
- Working with History in Bash - Some tips from Allan Odgaard.
- How to get a Rails job - No big secret: contribute!
A tip for installing a SSL certificate for nginx: make sure you’ve got a password-free key file.
- Introducing RSpactor - Lighter-impact alternative to autotest (OS X only). (via Pat Maddox)
- This Week in Rails - The official lowdown on recent changes.
- RESTful searching in Rails - Ben Curtis argues for simplicity rather than an extra resource. I’ve done it both ways, and tend to agree.
It’s starting to look like I may have the bandwidth to take on another project shortly. If you’ve got Rails work overflow, give me a holler.
- Mootools and Rails CSRF Protection - How to make one javascript library play nice without disabling security.
- Patch Your Rubies - Someone has backported the recent Ruby security fixes to a version of Ruby that Rails is happy with. I’ve been running one Rails 2.0 app on the latest patched 1.8.7, but it’s not been a happy match.
- Squirrel Update for Rails 2.1, Now with Named Scopes - Useful news if you’re wrestling with a Rails app with lots of complex queries.
Managed to spot a few things even though I spent the day in bed being sick…
- Subversion 1.5 - It’s heresy, I know, but I prefer Subversion to git.
- Subdomain Fu - A New Way to Tame the Subdomain - Within Rails applications, of course.
Nobody’s interested in doing a bit of sysadmin work on the side, eh? I’m not surprised, I don’t like it much myself.
- RubyGems 1.2.0 - Unfortunately this new update won’t install on my system, which probably means that I’ve terminally hosed something and should start thinking about a rebuild again.
- The Big Ruby Vulnerabilities - Wondering about the mysterious patches to Ruby recently? Zed Shaw comes to your aid with some revealing diffs.
- Rails-doc - Yet another Rails API site. This one claims to be better than all the rest. We’ll see.
It’s off on an outing with the kids today, so not much code will happen till tomorrow. Looks like the weekend will be catchup time again.
- FiveRuns TuneUp Panel v0.8.8 Released - With a few important bug fixes.
- Gotchas When Upgrading to Rails 2.1 - From ThoughtBot.
- ActsAsSeoFriendly - Plugin to build URLs from a column other than ID.
- BitNami RubyStack 1.2 Beta for Windows is Ready - A rev of this nice installer for those trying to do ruby work on Windows.
- Updating MySQL DATETIMEs for Rails 2.1 Time Zones - More upgrade fun.
- Upgrade to Rails 2.1_RC1 - Another small bucket of gotchas.
- Rails 2.1RC1 and the Enhanced Migrations Plugin - Some of this is fixed in the RTM version, but you’ll still need to change migration tables.
I may not be a UX designer, but sometimes I get to play one on TV.
- What is *jour and why they are killer apps for RailsCamp8 - I’ll never go to a RailsCamp,but hooking up git and gem and stuff to Bonjour is an interesting idea anyhow.
- ZenTest version 3.10.00 has been released! - Looks like the biggest change is an improvement in multiruby setup.
- About Metaprogramming Speed - More discussion on whether metaprogramming techniques slow down ruby code.
- Growl 1.1.4 - Mostly Leopard compatibility improvements.
- DOM Popup Kit - Looks like about the simplest way to get simple styled popups on Rails with Scriptaculous.
Losing internet for a day was good for a day off. Not the day off I wanted to take, I fear.
- New YSlow With Firefox 3 Support - A welcome addition to the debugging tools available for FF3.
- Announcing the Django Software Foundation - A nice boost for the framework I didn’t quite go with.
I’m at the point where I could seriously use some help with Rails server admin. If there’s anyone out there who could use a few hours a week wrestling with nginx, monit, php, capistrano, evented mongrel, etc., etc., who actually knows what they’re doing, drop me a line to discuss hours and rates.
- Bashfully Yours, Gem Shortcuts - Quick command-line access to your rdocs. (via Giles Bowkett)
- Capistrano 2.4.0 - I really gotta catch up on Capistrano releases soon.
- Trouble With Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails - Turns out Ruby 1.8.7 and Rails 2.0.2 is a bad match - fortunately upgrading Ruby to p17 takes care of this. (or upgrade to Rails 2.1, but this particular app isn’t in a place where I can do that).
Somehow, summer is proving to be more hectic than winter was - more time out with the kids, I think. But there’s still plenty of Rails work to do and Internet to cruise.
- Rails 2 PeepCode Updated w/2.1 Features - This was the best intro to Rails 2 I found; I expect it will be the best intro to 2.1, too.
- A Concise Guide to Using Thinking Sphinx - Huh, a Sphinx plugin I hadn’t seen before. Has anyone compared with Ultrasphinx?
And now I have the fun of provisioning a new server on top of trying to get some work done.
- Sending Mail from Rails Through Google SMTP - I may need to know this some day.
The big deployment effort on one project is about over, another has gone national, and I’m settling down to write some more code. Some days “routine” is good.
- Free Rails 2.1 Book - The Brazilian Rails community has put together a free ebook for the rest of us. Thanks, guys.
- Phusion Passenger 2.0 RC1 and Ruby Enterprise Edition Released - More news from the Phusion folks.
Looking forward to a productive day.
- Dismantling BrowserPlus - why goes hacking around inside Yahoo’s extensions and finds out how to serve Ruby there.
One of the first RoR sites I contracted on has finally launched. I thought it was cursed forever.
- Beware OS X 10.5.3 Bug That Destroys Adobe PSD Files - This one sounds nasty. Haven’t hit it myself, but then, I only piddle around in PhotoShop once in a great while.
- Rubular - Online regex tester for Ruby.
- Growl 1.1.3 - Finally, non-beta Growl support for OS X Leopard.
- Engine Yard Express - Want to see how Engine Yard set up their Rails hosting? Download a VMware image of one of their slices.
- Waiting for a Factory Girl - Another approach to replacing fixtures with factories.
- Composite Primary Keys Goes 1.0.0 for Rails 2.1 - More news from Dr. Nic.
The internets were not busy yesterday. Or else I was away from my desk too much.
- RubyCocoa: Bringing some Ruby Love to OS X - The latest beta book from the Pragmatic Programmers.
It’s off to the Red Cross for me again today.
- Pool Party - Ruby gem to manage load balancing and failover with Amazon EC2 instances.
- Ylastic - Another AWS management suite, “coming soon.”
- Versions - Subversion client for OS X, now out in beta.
Why isn’t there a GUI log viewer for OS X that understands ANSI colors?
- Firebug 1.2b2 - Another release of the essential Firefox add-in.
- FixtureReplacement - Replacement for Rails fixtures that takes a factory approach to building test objects.
Well, after almost 2 years of Mac ownership, I’ve had a machine turn into a brick. Law of averages, I guess.
- Introducing Vertebra - The EngineYard guys are starting to experiment with XMPP-connected Rails cloud computing.
- REST for Rails 2 - The latest screen cast from PeepCode.
Another month, even more software to get distracted by.
- MagLev is Gemstone/S for Ruby, Huge News - Apparently the talk from Maglev at RailsConf was well received. Their site is still in stealth mode, though.
- Rails 2.1: Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc - Shipped at RailsConf, to no one’s real surprise.
- RailsConf Slides for Testing Talk - From Dan Manges, with links to a batch of test tools.
