A Fresh Cup

Double Shot #1130

2013-05-17T10:43:04Z

Test::Page - Page-oriented integration testing for ruby.
Upgrading to Sublime Text 3 - Step by step guide to getting on the beta version.
Introducing ProMotion, a Full-Featured RobyMotion Application Framework - Abstracting screen and navigation handling in a rubylike way.

2013-05-16T11:03:07Z

How to make a Rubygem - Setting up the basic structure.
Patching Ruby for Faster Rails Startup, Revisited - Made easier with rvm.
Curly - Template language that separates logic and structure completely.
Capybara::Select2 - Helpers to test selects that have been spiffed up with select2.

2013-05-15T11:12:19Z

nginx, PageSpeed, and Amazon CloudFront - How to speed up static asset serving.
Gem Activation and You: Part I - Start of a series on how RubyGems works.
Ruby 1.9.2-p429 is released and Ruby 2.0.0-p195 is released - With a security patch.

2013-05-14T11:22:08Z

Pilfer - Ruby code profiler with Rack middleware and a server for displaying profiles.
Mongoloid - Experimental MongoDB clone being built on top of PostgreSQL.
Silencer - Chrome extension to mute things on Twitter and Facebook.
Wisper - Alternative to Rails callbacks with looser coupling.
PostgreSQL 9.3 Beta 1 Released - With a bunch of new features to test.

2013-05-13T10:50:38Z

2013-05-13T10:37:43Z

Converting text to basic latin (aka removing accents) with JavaScript - I needed this over the weekend, so it's time to stash a link.
Big-O Cheat Sheet - Space and time complexities of various common algorithms.
Devise and Rails 4 - Moving various libraries forward.
Esbit - Lightweight gem to interact with the Campfire API.
5 Things You Should Stop Doing with jQuery - Avoid Document Ready, among others.
Phones for Apps for Firefox OS - Mozilla is giving away phones to entice app developers.
Does MultiJson introduce slowness? - Looks like we may see some rapid movement towards native Json in Ruby now.
RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OSX Support, Templates and Plugins - Lots of new goodies here.
fartscroll.js - Open source from The Onion. Be afraid.
How to Setup a Production Server for Rails 4 - A walkthrough using a server from Media Temple.
Adding Tabs to Your Rails App Just Got a Whole Lot Easier with Tabulous 2 - New release of the easy way to build a tabbed UI (with all new declarative syntax).

2013-05-09T11:12:56Z

Sidekiq Pro reaches 1.0! - With a giveaway to let someone win a license.
Reform - Decouple Your Forms From Your Models - Personally, I prefer coupling, but if it bothers you check this out.
My Assets Are No Longer Minified in Rails 4: HALP! - What to do about it.
Journo & Literate CoffeeScript - An example for your perusal (and possible use as a blogging engine).

2013-05-08T10:54:49Z

nginx security advisory - If you're running 1.3.9 or 1.4.0 you need to update sooner rather than later.
Phusion Passenger 4.0.2 released - A quick update to fix the nginx vulnerability.
Discover Meteor - Ebook on this real time Javascript web framework.
Flat UI Pro - $39 set of components for Bootstrap.
RailsConf 2013 Talks - With links to videos and slides.
10 Years - CSS Zen Garden is 10 years old - and refreshing for the modern web era.
Chrome Developer Tools: What Is Snippets Support? - A new set of tools for Chrome users.
Order Issuing Sanctions - A judge kicks some copyright trolls repeatedly, with a Star Trek undertheme.
Gitdown - Use a breathalyzer to prevent making commits when drunk.
Spark Inspector - Runtime debugger for iOS applications.

2013-05-07T11:27:37Z

test-queue - Parallel test runner using a centralized queue and optimized for CI environment.
Upgrading to Rails 4 - The Railscast.
Phusion Passenger 4.0.1 final release - With support for all sorts of cutting-edge stuff.

2013-05-06T11:30:46Z

As I expected, Rails 4.0 RC1 was released last week. And so, now the coverage here is of the new master, which is planned to be Rails 4.1.