A Fresh Cuphttp://afreshcup.com/home/Mike Gunderloy's notes on Rails and other development issues.en-US2010-03-16T10:50:52ZSquarespace Site Server v5.9.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Double Shot #668http://afreshcup.com/home/2010/3/15/double-shot-668.htmlMike Gunderloy2010-03-15T11:01:14ZDouble Shot
  • Spotless - I've been looking for something to use to bludgeon OS X Spotlight into behaving. This might be it.
  • CSS3 Please! - Cross-browser CSS3 rule generator and sandbox. There's also CSS3 Generator.
  • jQuery Masonry - Pack elements closer on a page than CSS floats can normally manage.
  • puppet-dashboard - Web interface for the Puppet system provisioning tool.
  • Redis: Data Cheeseburgers - A quick tutorial on getting started with this tool. There's also Redis Weekly Update now.
  • Rails "Good Touch"/"Bad Touch" - Code to let you update dates on models without running through their after_save callbacks.
  • Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling - A different approach to getting baseline CSS for your web projects.
  • Designing for the Web - Free online book. If you like it, you can buy a PDF for a reasonable price.
  • Like, Python - Someone needs to do this for Ruby.
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  • Make Sure Your Rails Application is Actually Caching (and not just pretending) - Good advice as you're trying to tune performance.
  • markItUp! - jQuery plugin to turn textareas into markup areas.
  • ideone - Pastebin that also allows running code.
  • Rails 2 and Rails 3: So Happy Together - One solution to running both on the same box, though I think disjoint ruby environments is probably a better idea.
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  • Try Redis - Online/in-browser demo of the redis database.
  • 73primenumbers - I was amused.
  • Tarsnap - "Online backups for the truly paranoid" with the encryption happening securely on your client.
  • Spritely - jQuery plugin for sprite-based animations.
  • Drink Rails - Another Rails link blog joins the fray.
  • Lawnchair - Client-side JSON document store inspired by CouchDB.
  • happening - EventMachine based S3 client, for interactions without blocking.
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  • Mac Performance Guide - "For digital photographers & performance addicts," there's plenty here for developers to chew on too.
  • LightMongo - Persistence layer for Mongo that doesn't try to emulate ActiveRecord.
  • Spoke - Another way to package up and deploy gem code with minimal configuration.
  • rocco - Literate programming documentation generator.
  • Disconnect - More discussion of Rails 3 and Bundler.
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  • Vagrant - Automated creation and provisioning of VirtualBox VMs.
  • Programmers: What To Do If You Get Fired - Giles is hawking his latest product, but it still makes for amusing reading, especially if you want to hunt a new job. Of course I'll tell you how to be happier with no job.
  • Bundler: Oh the fail I know - Another developer steps up to complain of the foibles of bundler.
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  • Public Beta: Deployment Stacks: You now have a choice of Debian and Ruby versions on Heroku.
  • Smart HTTP Transport - Interesting, setting up your own git server might get easier now.
  • Smack a Ho.st - Easier testing for Rails apps with subdomains.
  • Ruby's Metaprogramming Toolbox - An introduction.
  • Highlight - Syntax highlighting for Rails projects via a plugin that wraps pygments.
  • Stubbing and Setting Expectations on HTTP Requests Is Now Easy With WebMock - Looks like a potential alternative to fakeweb with a bit more spice.
  • identity-map - Simple Identity Mapper implementation for Active Record.
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  • Your Version Control and Build Systems Don’t Scale - Some of the argument here is a bit sketchy, but the basic notion that we need to reevaluate our tools as hardware advances is sound.
  • Sunspot 1.0 - Release version of this new ruby & rails library for working with Solr.
  • jQuery Form Plugin - This super-simple way to ajaxify forms with jQuery came in handy today.
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  • ruby-standard.org - HTML wikified version of the draft Ruby ISO standard.
  • Gemsday - Twitter-fueled popularity contest for rubygems.
  • Rubex - Sinatra clone of Rubular that you can run yourself.
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  • Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn't-Scalable Lie - NoSQL has its uses, but as most people who've been around the block know, SQL is in fact scalable far beyond your puny needs.
  • Sinatra's Watched Repos - The Sinatra ecosystem has been growing quite a bit. Some time I need to dig in to this.
  • delorean - Gem to allow mocking Time.now in Ruby tests.
  • BlueGreenDeployment - How to manage continuous delivery without driving yourself nuts.
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  • How I reduced translation costs of 200 articles from $9000 to $46 - Second Life as an alternative to Mechanical Turk.
  • Notes from a production MongoDB deployment - Some detailed stories from the trenches.
  • Rapid prototyping with HAML, SASS and Ruby - A workflow for coming up with web site designs.
  • Erector - Builder-like view framework for object-oriented HTML composition.
  • ambitious_query_indexer - Another plugin for testing whether your Rails application needs more indexes.
  • Flowdock Public Beta to launch - Our team has been using this tool, and it's been working well for us.
  • Introducing GitHub Compare View - More analytic power from GitHub, who are clearly concentrating on feature differentiation these days.
  • Unobtrusive, yet explicit - Jamis Buck tries to work out a useful pattern for UJS in Rails 3.
  • S3Hub - Amazon S3 client for OS X.
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