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Yesterday saw my first posting to the official Rails weblog. A nice step on the way to world domination, I guess.
I’m thinking it’s about time for me to get involved with some open source Rails project. The question is, which one?
- 6 Optimization tips for Ruby MRI - Useful if you end up right down in the weeds with a perf issue.
- Command Line Basecamp - Just in case your team is on Basecamp and you don’t want to spend all day with the UI.
- Lab Test: Climb Aboard Ruby on Rails - InfoWorld does a big test of 9 different IDEs and editors.
The problem with social networks is that they force you to be social :)
- Microsoft Activities for Firefox - New Version - Didn’t take the open source community long to clone that feature.
- Integrating Scribd with your Rails application - Ben Curtis has some details.
- RadRails 1.0 - This open source IDE (now integrated with Aptana) has reached release. Looks pretty nice. Peter Cooper from Ruby Inside likes it.
- Living on the edge (of Rails) #11 - Summary of another week in development land.
- QGit - Replacement for gitk built on Qt.
Today is going to include code in Cocoa, Ruby, and LSL. I hope my brain can keep them sorted out.
- Komodo IDE 4.3 - ActiveState’s IDE now includes unit testing integration. I’m still happy with TextMate, but if I was going to switch to an IDE, this is the one I’ve liked best so far.
- TextMate Tip: HTML Tags - Chris Kaukis at ADS has been doing a series of these. So far they’ve been useful.
- UNA - New tool for real-time long-distance collaborative software development, combining a multi-user IDE and chat with a client-server backbone. Looks interesting.
- Low Pro: Unobtrusive Scripting For Prototype - I knew this was out there, but I just had to hunt up a copy for a plugin that wanted it. More to learn…
- TMail 1.2.2 - The mail handler used by Rails is now compatible with Ruby 1.9, and the documentation has been improved to boot.
- Delta Indexing Support in Ultrasphinx - More progress on the Rails full-text index front.
- Automatic Asset Minimization and Packaging with Rails 2.0.x - A good idea from Dave Troy, with implementation.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled program of linkage.
- LiquiBase - Open source database refactoring tool that can handle MySQL and PostgreSQL among others.
- Four Words for Microsoft - Tim Bray weighs in on Microsoft’s most recent FUD salvo with reasonable eloquence.
- CodeGear Unveils First IDE for Agile Ruby on Rails Web 2.0 Development - The former Borland IDE team gets into the act by announcing a new cross-platform IDE due to ship the second half of this year. I predict that some people will see this as the beginning of the end for Rails (”Oh no! The barbarians are coming!”)
- ActiveWarehouse 0.3.0 Released - Looks like this OLAP framework for Rails is moving right along.
- Swiftiply - New clustering proxy for Web applications that includes Mongrel support. (via Ruby Inside)
- an introduction to RSpec - Part I - Along with an introduction to BDD in general.
- How to deploy a self contained Rails application on Tomcat, painlessly! - I hope this never happens to me, but if you’re sneaking Rails into the enterprise it may be your only hope. (via Ruby Inside)
- Hi, I’m Ruby on Rails - Lovely little takeoff on those Mac vs. PC ads.
Just a couple of quickies this morning.
- Finding a Ruby IDE - Jim Clark spends time hunting around for a Ruby on Rails IDE for Windows and settles on NetBeans. (via dzone)
- Ruby (and Rails) Books - the essential reading list - A reasonably short list from Huw.
Picked up a few more odds and ends in my peregrinations around the net.
- Get your Rails tests results via Growl notifications - I’m starting to rethink whether every bloody thing should come in via Growl. If test results come back quickly enough to be useful, aren’t they foreground information? Still, eye candy is seductive. (via dzone)
- Ajax File Upload - Not really Ajax, but a reasonably clever hack to keep everything on one page.
- iStalkr - New lifestreaming site with a public feed of everything. If this one becomes at all popular it could be a surefire recipe for drowning in infotrivia.
- Ruby In Steel Developer Updated - With various editing and debugging improvements, for folks doing Ruby on Windows.
Just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out why the c: drive on my Windows box filled up overnight. I’m beginning to get crabbier and crabbier about Windows, while trying to remember that the Mac just hasn’t had time to get old and crufty yet.
- RadRails moves to Aptana - Looks like this IDE has a plan to move forward. More info from the original RadRails team here .
- ActiveWarehouse ETL 0.6.0 Released - This project is moving along at a rapid pace. In a past life, I wrote half a book on OLAP in Microsoft-land. It’s another of those enterprisey areas I’d just as soon not get back into, though.
I can’t decide whether posting to Twitter from within Second Life is a brilliant hack or a sign that the universe is about to vanish up its own navel.
- The Host with the Most - Geoffrey Grosenbach evaluates a batch of Rails hosting sites that he’s used. Make sure you read through the comments from other folks as well. Makes me happy that I’m doing my own hosting - and I expect I’ll end up on a dedicated host when and if I have a Rails site that looks set to draw substantial traffic.
- RadRails Future - Or lack thereof. A look at the current state of development for this Eclipse-based Rails IDE.
- JRuby In Steel - Java-based Ruby programming inside the Visual Studio IDE. It’s a programming language mashup!
A couple more things of interest in this new space I’m exploring.
- Rails for Java Developers - The latest from Pragmatic Press. Not being a Java developer myself (and having no ambitions to become one), I’m going to stay far away, but I expect some folks will find it useful. Now, if they publish Rails for .NET Developers I’ll snap up a copy immediately.
- Gyre - “the open source, web-based IDE and debugger for Rails”. Yes, web-based. Looks spiffy, but they caution it’s still very early in the development cycle. (via Ruby Inside)
Most of my readers here are, I think, familiar with the Daily Grind postings I do over at the Larkware site, tracking interesting stuff in the .NET universe. While I’m not yet going to commit to doing the same thing over here for the non-Microsoft world, I do have a couple of things bookmarked this morning that are worth quickly pulling together. Who knows, I might do more of these.
- Devalot - New web-based software management tool in Rails. Similar to Trac with more social components. (via Ruby Inside)
- HTML encoding your flash in your controller - Toolman Tim shows how to use the
h()method for safely encoding user-entered content in controllers as well as views. - Ruby and Ruby on Rails Development - Plugin from IntelliJ to turn their IDEA editor into a Ruby and Rails development environment. (via Riding Rails)
Sometimes I miss the obvious - though I linked to Komodo IDE a few days ago, I completely missed ActiveState’s free Komodo Edit , a lighter-weight version of their product without the additional debugging, team, and other features (comparison between the two tools is here). Looks like this may answer the question I had a while ago about finding a decent CSS editor for my Linux environment. Though I’m more than happy with CSSEdit on the Mac side of the house, I’ll definitely be taking a look at this one for its cross-platform (Mac/Linux/Windows) goodness.
The new version 4.0 of Komodo is out. It’s got all sorts of spiffy features for dynamic languages (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, TCL) as well as Rails support. But you know, right now I’m just not feeling the need for a $245 IDE for Rails development. Of course that may be just because I’m only doing little baby applications so far, but at the moment lightweight tools (like TextMate) are doing fine for me.
