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Shaping up to be another busy week; fortunately the weekend was good for catching up this time.
- iCHM - Nice-looking CHM reader for OS X. Unfortunately I’m not finding that its search works as well as that in Chamonix.
- REST, I Just Don’t Get It - Heretical musings from Damien Katz. The comments are well worth reading. Also worth reading is Dare Obasanjo’s Explaining REST to Damien Katz.
- Use MacVim and rails.vim plugin to edit your Rails work - An alternative if you don’t want to drink the TextMate koolaid.
- GitHub RubyGems - It really is dead simple to publish a gem via github.
- GemPlugins: A Brief Introduction to the Future of Rails Plugins - And it’s easy to convert an existing plugin to a gem, too.
- App Update - Dashboard widget to track software freshness on your Mac.
Sick kids have been taking more time than net cruising lately.
- New Controller Examples - David Chelminsky is experimenting with the scaffolded tests that RSpec generates for RESTful controllers.
- REST Anti-Patterns - Ways in which to drift away from RESTfulness when building a web service.
Yep, I’m still here, though you wouldn’t know it from my lack of postings. Pre-move preparations (we’re headed from Washington state to Indiana on October 6) are taking an increasing amount of scarce time. But, I’m still doing all of my work in non-Microsoft pastures and loving it. I just don’t have nearly as much time to chase links as I’d like. This should change in a month or so.
Also, a bit of advance warning: A Fresh Cup will be going offline from October 4 until I’m not sure when, as the server that it’s running on will be packed and moving across the country with me. Moving the site to a remote server is one of those “nice to have” tasks that has fallen off the bottom of the list.
- URL Conventions - As used by RESTful URLs in Rails. Beware, these are the Edge conventions - if you’re working in 1.2.3, pay attention to the little note at the top about semicolons. (via Less Everything)
- Database Conventions - Roundup of some of the Rails magic. This helped me out when I unwittingly used “type” as a column name. (The simple answer is “don’t do that.”)
- CodeGear Releases 3rdRail - Another IDE enters the fray. I’d check it out, except that I simply do not trust Borland to continue supporting any product over the long haul; they have too much history of abruptly dropping things when their strategic direction changes. I’ve been burned too many times to use them as a vendor for anything now.
- ActsAsReadonlyable - One approach to scaling a Rails application out to multiple databases. More information here .
- REST 101: Part 4 - Routing - More information from the Softies on Rails crew.
- Introducing: gui.cs - Faced with the choice between Apollo and Silverlight, the Mono team have gone off and written yet another cross-platform GUI toolkit.
I continue to be amazed at all the things I find on the Web. Fortunately, I don’t inflict most of them on you here.
- Acts_As_Ferret Tutorial - How to set up high-performance text searching in your Rails applications.
- RESTful Rails Development - Tutorial available in German or English; Paypal donation requested if you find it useful. (via Ruby Inside)
- Ruby Implementations Shootout: Ruby vs Yarv vs JRuby vs Gardens Point Ruby .NET vs Rubinius vs Cardinal - Despite the careful methodology and the poster’s cautions, I’m sure there will be plenty of unwarranted conclusions drawn from this study, but I’m linking to it anyhow. Just try to keep in mind the difference between “platform X is slow” and “a particular group’s project on top of platform X in its early days is slow.”
