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Setting up a Rails server hasn’t gotten any easier since the last time I did it. Bah.
- Data Visualization with Ruby and RMagick - Where Are Those Bikes ? - Nice little mashup including the Google Maps static API.
- Seed - a seed data/fuzzing plugin - Generate random but realistic data to bulk out your Rails app database for testing or demos.
- Absolute Moron’s Guide to Forms in Rails, Part 2 - More tutorial from the Softies on Rails.
- Cobol on Cogs - I think this was the only thing I actually laughed at yesterday.
There are days I actually feel like I understand what I’m doing with this Rails stuff. Yesterday was one of them.
- RubyGems 1.0.1 - The gem system for installing Ruby software actually hit release 1.0.0 and then in quick succession 1.0.1. Nothing too earthshaking but nice to see an official non-zero version.
- Better Nested Set - Successor to acts_as_tree and acts_as_nested_set. I used it in a project yesterday and it’s doing fine, though I couldn’t get the select helper for a view to do what I wanted and had to roll my own.
- Installing RMagick Gem On OS X 10.5 - I did a ports/gem based install of RMagick this time around and it was easier than building from source. I did have to
sudo port install ghostscriptin addition to the steps listed here to get it to work.
Wow, 100 of these. I guess that’s some indication that I’m sticking with this non-Microsoft universe. In fact, I’ll be completely shutting down my .NET-oriented blog at the end of the year, as I’ve transitioned all of my work life over to other things.
- Pulse - Configuration manager for Eclipse-based products, now available for the Mac.
- Dynamic System Modeling in Second Life - Jeff Barr used Second Life to build a 3D animated representation of a complex Amazon Web Services system. I think there’s a lot of promise to this approach for architectural discussions.
- Testing in Rails: Part 5 - Unit Testing ActiveRecord Models - Part of the ongoing series from Null is Love.
- Installing RMagick on Leopard - I just had a good long wrestle with this, complicated by a stale MacPorts install of ImageMagick. This is the article that finally sorted out all the bits for me.
- Advanced Rails Recipes Now in Beta - Now that Rails 2.0 is out, here’s some good reading to go with it.
- Rails 2.0 Final Released! - Summary of Features - Ryan links to a whole mess of articles he’s written about the new stuff.
Time to clean out the links bucket in anticipation of a busy weekend.
- Hackety Hack - Ruby-based take on the idea of a starter’s coding environment for kids. (via Ruby Inside)
- ActsAsSecure - Automatically encrypt specific fields from an ActiveRecord model when they’re stored in a database.
- Compiling RMagick on OS X 10.4.9 Intel - RMagick, or at least its setup, is one of the pieces of the whole Rails story that just seems utterly devoid of elegance.
- Tips for Upgrading to Capistrano 2 - I’ll probably jump in this pond sooner rather than later. One of the nice things about being new to the Rails world is that everything is new anyhow so there’s no special penalty to being out on the edge.
- acts_as_sphinx plugin - Yet another option for full-text searching in Rails applications.
- Rails: Group results by week - This came in handy last night when I needed to do multilevel reporting in a Rails view.
I’m just about back to a full-time freelancing career. Trading the loss of steady income for flexbility is always a gamble, but I feel good about it.
- Ubuntu breezy badger installation for RMagick - I found some much more complicated howtos on the subject, but this one seems to have worked fine on the latest Ubuntu (after I bumped libmagick6-dev to libmagick9-dev).
- Rails for IIS: Always Have Friend Named ‘Mike’ - Rob Conery adds some experience-based notes to installing the alpha bits to make Rails run directly on IIS.
- Lighthouse Launches - New Rails-backed issue-tracking system aimed at developers.
- OpenOffice.org 2.2 released - With various improvements. So far the OpenOffice family (I’m using NeoOffice on Mac) is handling my document needs just fine. Dumping MS Office is proving to be utterly untraumatic, except that I have to keep it around for a few publishers who absolutely require using their Word templates.
- Sexy Migrations - As with Hobo, I’m not quite ready for this level of elegant terseness in my Rails, but it’s worth tracking.
