Double Shot #1652
- AcornCache - Configurable Ruby caching library that can be integrated at the Rack level for a flexible strategy.
- Reality - Gem that gives you ruby access to all sorts of structured and unstructured data from Wikipedia.
- React.js Fundamentals - Free online course.
Double Shot #1651
- Rails 4.2.5.2, 4.1.14.2 and 3.2.22.2 have been released! - Another round of minor security releases.
- How to Deploy Software - Long and excellent overview of the high-level process issues of managing deployments.
- GitKraken - New "downright luxurious" OS X git client.
Double Shot #1650
- 10 things to avoid in docker containers - Advice from Red Hat.
- What I learned building an app in Hanami - Exploring a new lightweight Ruby web framework.
- Markoff: A Free Markdown Previewer for OS X - From the folks at Thoughtbot.
Double Shot #1649
- Rails 5.0.0.beta3: More fixes, RC1 is soon - Final version should be out middle of next month.
- Bond - A Spy-Based Testing and Mocking Library - Test the state of objects based on known good data.
- Making GitLab Faster - You can never know too much about performance.
Double Shot #1648
- Introducing Docker Datacenter to Power Your On-Premises CaaS - For a while there I was trying to keep up with the state of Docker tooling. I give up. Things are just moving too fast. If you want to dig more into the latest, here's the Docker Datacenter home page.
- GitLab's fastest release ever: 8.5, with Todos and Geo - GitLab is looing increasingly interesting as a GitHub alternative.
- Support plans for Ruby 2.0.0 and Ruby 2.1 - Basically, it's time to get your stuff on to 2.3.
Double Shot #1647
- SmarfDoc - Turn Rails controller tests into API docs automatically.
- FilterLists - All sorts of Ad blocking, privacy, and other lists.
- Jolteon - Canned install for Babel + Electron + React + Browserify + Sass.
Double Shot #1646
- Active Support Improvements in Rails 5 - Another round of syntactic sugar.
- Exploring MRI Source Code - A brief introduction to looking under the hood.
- Heya, Elastic Stack and X-Pack - New offerings from the Elasticsearch folks.
Double Shot #1645
- Awesome Postgres - Curated list of PostgreSQL tools and resources.
- jekyll-gutenberg-theme - Static site builder with spiffy typography for presenting books.
- Which Ruby Background Job Framework is Right For You? - Comparison of delayed::job, sidekiq, and suckerpunch.
Double Shot #1644
- yagni_json_encoder - Speedier replacement for Rails JSON encoder that is less supportive of older browsers.
- Kill Your Dependencies - An argument that pulling in gems is getting out of hand.
- subuser - Turn Docker containers into apps with fewer permissions for desktop use.
Double Shot #1643
- LogSpy - Rack middleware that tosses your request log over to an Amazon SQS instance as it happens.
- Common problems when starting with Docker and Rails - Not sure how common these are, but there are some good tips here.
- htop - an interactive process viewer for Unix - I use this replacement for top all the time. Version 2 is just out.
Double Shot #1642
- Matrix - "An open standard for decentralised persistent communication", offering a variety of clients for group chats and bridges to other services including IRC and XMPP.
- I am a puts debuggerer - So am I, though I'm not nearly as clever about it as tenderlove.
- GitXiv - A combination of computer science research from arXiv and open code on GitHub.
Double Shot #1641
- git-blame-someone-else - Fun with the git API.
- The Wrong Abstraction - As Sandi Metz points out, sometimes duplication really is the answer.
- ElasticBeanstalk - Gem and rake tasks for rapid deployment of Rails applications to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk.
Double Shot #1640
- Learn Enough Git to be Dangerous - New ebook from Michael Hartl.
- The Sad State of Web Development - Mostly a rant about the problems with node.js overengineering.
- Typeplate - CSS designed to help with nice-looking typography.
Double Shot #1639
- NPM Addict - A daily dose of new npm packages.
- Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Over Once - Tool from GitHub to help swap complex code out without changing the behavior of the system.
- ngx_pagespeed - Nginx module from Google designed to rewrite pages to speed them up.
Double Shot #1638
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- Rails 5.0.0.beta2: Slashed Action Cable dependencies, fixes galore - With a planned February 23 release date, Rails 5.0 is coming fast.
- Rails tip – Grouping ActiveRecord objects by day or week using datetrunc - ActiveRecord isn't great for reporting. Here's a tip to push some of the heavy lifting back into the database.
- Microcontainers - Tiny, Portable Docker Containers - Another argument for stripping your Docker images to the bare minimum.
Double Shot #1637
- Ruby Debugging Magic Cheat Sheet - Lots of stuff you can do to help figure out what's going on in complicated Ruby code.
- TheSweet Angular 1.x Playground - Learn how to use Angular with Rails in a safe space.
- Remote Jobseeker's Handbook - Paid ebook from a remote guy at GitHub.
Double Shot #1636
- Bootstrap Studio - Commercial design tool for Bootstrap sites. There's also Pingendo, which is a free alternative.
- Is It Time for Swift? - I certainly hope not. Learning a new language from Apple does not fill me with glee.
- Improve console print debugging experience - A little tweak for users of awesome_print.
Double Shot #1635
- Run bundler-audit Regularly on Your Rails Apps with Rake - By adding it to your default Rake task.
- Flammarion - Simple GUI toolkit for Ruby scripts.
- Chris Seaton on Massively Improving Ruby Performance with JRuby+Truffle - Quick interview about a new Ruby implementation being developed at Oracle Labs.
Double Shot #1634
- OneOps - Open-source cloud management product from WalMart, of all darned people.
- Finding iOS Memory Leaks with XCode's Instruments - Xcode is one of the worst development environments I've ever had to work with. Instruments is just as bad, but you gotta know how to use it.
- Two Factor Authentication in Rails 4 with Devise, Authy and Puppies - Just in case you need that little bit of extra security.
Double Shot #1633
- Caching in development environment in Rails 5 - You can now turn caching on and off without restarting the server, but only if your server is pow.
- Fledgling Languages - Big list of programming languages that no one is really using yet.
- Simplifying Docker on OS X - Simpler tools to aid in Docker-based development.
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