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There are times when I’m glad I’m not a big wheel in the Ruby community. Saves me all sorts of angst, apparently.
Another contribution to the Rails Guides project: Layouts and Rendering in Rails.
- Twist - New functional testing platform from Thoughtworks, based on Selenium and implemented as Eclipse plugins.
- CSS Systems for Writing Maintainable CSS - Excellent set of slideks and notes. I need to spend some time with this one.
- TextMate Reigns Supreme with ‘Ack in Project’ - Very fast full-project search bundle for TextMate.
- GridIron Flow - This looks like very nice work management software for design professionals.
- Master Services Agreement (Part I) - Start of a new series by Obie Fernandez. Should be interesting, but remember, swiping someone elses’s MSA rather than talking to your own lawyer is asking for trouble.
The current fun: Setting up CruiseControl.rb with git and rspec.
- Git Quick Reference - Not exhaustive, but useful.
- 10 Things You Could be Doing to Your Code Right Now - Some suggestions for Rails shops that are feeling slipshod.
- This Week in Rails - Another look at what’s been cooking around the community.
- Completely Sodding Stupid - A rant about some of the obvious shortcomings of CSS.
- Una - Commerical editor supporting shared code editing. (via RubyFlow)
- Setting up CruiseControl.rb with/for Git Based Projects - Best guide I’ve found. Way better than the execrable official documentation.
It looks like the universe may be poised to fill in another hole in my work schedule. Thanks, universe.
- Format CSS Online - Tool for applying a variety of formatting rules to CSS files, to make up for your sloppiness during development.
- Envy Casts - The latest addition to the paid Rails screencasts ecosystem.
- Cap 1.4.1? Go 1.4.2. Now. - An upgrade reminder for users of older versions of Capistrano. Fortunately for me, I finally managed to pull all of my own projects up to the Cap 2.x series.
- The awesomest filter and sort ever - Courtenay is playing with named scopes and searching on multiple conditions in edge Rails. It’s looking useful.
Looks like I’m covered on working hours for this month…next month is, of course, another question
- Conditional-CSS - Essentially a CGI preprocessor that lets you target different CSS for different browsers without the confusing syntax of browser hacks.
- IMG2JSON - Hosted app that extracts image metadata and returns it as a JSON string. (via Ajaxian)
Thanks for all the response, somewhat-less-faceless audience. I shall endeavor to find more content of interest to giant killer robots now.
- CSSRound - Automated generator for rounded-corner background layouts for your CSS/HTML needs.
- The Survey, 2008 - From A List Apart, trying to get a sense of the current state of the web design and development community.
- DocBox - Wikified editing for RDoc source. (via Ruby Inside)
- More Info on Vertebra - The P2P cloud computing control software coming soon from EngineYard.
It was a working weekend for me, but apparently a writing weekend for lots of other folks:
- OpenX ad server API with Ruby - I could have used this a while ago.
- Little green friend - Thoughtbot is getting ready to introduce a web-based replacement for the ExceptionNotifier plugin, called hoptoad. Looks interesting.
- Inept Recruiter - The story of a technical recruiter who managed to spawn an entire Rails dev mailing list through poor use of the cc: field. I had my own inept recruiter yesterday - wanted to hire me to work at Microsoft. Um, no.
- If you work for Apple, we need your help… - The lockdown of the iPhone extends to blocking book authors. Bah.
- Authenticate like SSO with ActiveResource - One approach to letting one Rails app provide authentication services for another. I don’t think we’ve see the end of this discussion yet.
- Blueprint 0.7 - Looking for a CSS framework. It seemed like investigating the most widely-known one was a good starting point. And indeed, using it is pretty simple.
- Bitbucket - Free (and paid) hosting for Mercurial repos. Not that I’m looking to learn another source-code management system right now, but it’s good to know about.
- Blueprint Grid CSS Generator - Useful adjunct to Blueprint when you don’t want or need 24 columns.
- Blueprint CSS 101 - Good (though slightly dated) overview.
- EditorKicker - Rails plugin to open your text editor to the affected file when an error happens in Rails dev.
- WICE Grid - Fancy grid/table control plugin for Rails views.
So far I’m liking Passenger more than nginx + mongrels, if only for ease of setup.
- emastic - Another CSS framework. I have the nagging feeling that I should pick and use one.
- SiteScan - Utility to check out whether you have Google Analytics installed properly.
- The Complete Guide to Setting up Starling - Help with Twitter’s background processing code.
I’m hoping some renewed energy and inspiration comes out of somewhere today, because I sure didn’t have any this weekend.
- Merb Supports rSpec Text Stories - Merb is reaching a tipping point very quickly, I think.
- The Maria engine is released - A new plug-in storage engine for MySQL.
- MultiRails 0.0.5 - A way to test your Rails code in multiple versions of Rails. Most useful to plugin authors, I think.
- Simpler than dirt: RESTful Dynamic CSS - Technique for having CSS that depends on the details of the current model instance. Check out the comments for some other alternatives.
- Write Only Ruby - Jay Fields takes DRY to its logical and absurd conclusion.
Bluefish Editor is the best I could find for CSS editing on Linux on short notice, and it’s not great for that purpose. What’s better?
