Double Shot #1632
- Maquette - If you like the idea of a virtual DOM library to make working with pages through JavaScript easier, here's a tiny one.
- Rails 5.0.0.beta1.1, 4.2.5.1, 4.1.14.1, 3.2.22.1, and rails-html-sanitizer 1.0.3 have been released! - With a whole bunch of pretty low-impact security fixes.
- Engine-based Rails Apps: Pros & Cons - Experiences based on building a substantial app as a bunch of engines.
Double Shot #1631
- Umbrella JS - "Tiny and intuitive" JavaScript library meant as a lighter-weight alternative to jQuery.
- Buddybuild - Build, continuous delivery, and feedback platform for iOS and Android apps.
- Postgres Query Plan Visualization - Nice looking new graphical view for PostgreSQL EXPLAIN output.
Double Shot #1630
- marky_markov - This Markov chain text generator gem was good for some fun with our customer data.
Double Shot #1629
- SSH Tunnelling for Fun and Profit: AutoSSH - How to prevent your SSH connections from timing out.
- Riemann - Monitoring framework for distributed systems.
- MightyString - Odds and ends of extra functionality for Ruby's string class.
Double Shot #1628
- The Beginner's Guide to Crafting Ruby Gems - Step by step to getting a gem published.
- How to Build Rails APIs Following the json:api Spec - Using Rails 5 togehter with conventions to make your API more useful.
- New Rails identity - Oh look, plain text on a plain background. Everything old is new again.
Double Shot #1627
- Creo - Cross platform mobile app design tool that runs on OS X. History in general has not been kind to this genre of tool.
- What's new in Rails 5? - A big list of new features with some commentary.
- Lita - General purpose chatbot written in Ruby. I find it way easier to use and customize than Hubot.
Double Shot #1626
- The pitch for mruby - An update on the embeddable version of Ruby and what you can do with it.
- Git Draw - Chrome extension to let you draw whatever you want on your Git contributions heatmap.
- Introducing Apex - Tool for "serverless" web apps via AWS Lambda.
Double Shot #1625
- Imba - "Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to performant JavaScript. It is heavily inspired by ruby and python, but developed explicitly for web programming (both server and client)." If only I had unlimited hours to learn new things instead of working for a living...anyone want to hire me to just play?
Double Shot #1624
- OSX - Shell scripts to automate setting up a whole mess of stuff on OS X.
- Switching from Resque to ActiveJob - Not all that hard to do, as it turns out.
- Chromebook for Web Developers - With all the tools being in the cloud these days you might as well use the cheapest laptop possible.
Double Shot #1623
- HashPolice - Solution for checking hash contents in your tests.
- Remotespace - Lots of articles about working remotely and being a digital nomad. (Back in the day, we called these "business travelers").
- Vim-Galore - Lots of content about using Vim, just in case you wanted to learn yet another editor.
Double Shot #1622
- Github Visualize - Purty explorer for your repos, but requires more permissions than most people will be happy with (not their fault, GH permissions aren't granular enough).
- PostgreSQL 9.5: UPSERT, Row Level Security, and Big Data - It's shipping.
- Announcing Scenic - Versioned Database Views for Rails - Rails pretty much ignores views. This gem integrates them to ActiveRecord.
Double Shot #1621
- A javascript closures recap - Or, for those who don't understand them at all, a quick introduction.
- ActiveRecord stole my data and now I want it back! - Some of the details involved in moving away from ActiveRecord to a more decoupled data architecture.
- Running a Rails Application on Deis - A new option in the devops space.
Double Shot #1620
- RubyFu - "Where Ruby goes evil!", somewhat sketchy notes on using Ruby as a cracking tool.
- Lessons learned from Building a Ruby Gem API - Including dealing with other APIs.
- Nodal - Framework that adds a lot of tools to node.js.
Double Shot #1619
- dotfiles - A wide-ranging pile of shell scripts to set up defaults on your OS X box.
- Hidden Complexity in Ruby Land - Some surprising results from magic code.
- How to deploy your node app on Linux, 2016 edition - A guide from the ground up.
Double Shot #1618
- Test runner in Rails 5 - There are lots of goodies waiting in the new rails/test command.
- Trails - A fresh Rails-like framework for Node.
- SourceLair - In-browser coding environment supporting Python, Ruby, HTML, JavaScript and C++ with git and hg integration.
Double Shot #1617
- gistscript - Online storage & sandbox for Ruby scripts. rack-mini-profiler - the Secret Weapon of Ruby and Rails Speed - A tool you should really know if you're not using it already.
- btfs - Mount a torrent file or magnet link as a read-only directory in your file system.
Double Shot #1616
- SQL Tabs - Open source cross-platform PostgreSQL client.
- WebSockets, caution required! - Why you might not want to immediately move to the latest shiny.
- Ruby 2.3 on Heroku with Matz - Some thoughts from the language designer.
Double Shot #1615
- Vagrant 1.8 - New version is out with improvements in speed & size, among other goodies.
- docker-alpine - Tiny Linux image based on Alpine Linux for minimal docker boxes.
- react-boilerplate - I really can't keep up with this JS stuff: "Quick setup for performance orientated, offline-first React.js applications featuring Redux, hot-reloading, PostCSS, react-router, ServiceWorker, AppCache, FontFaceObserver and Mocha".
Double Shot #1614
- ROM 1.0.0 RC Released - The non-beta version of Ruby Object Mapper is just about ready to come out.
- ApplicationRecord in Rails 5 - What it is and how to backfill it into older applications. Postgres 9.5 - the Feature Rundown - Upsert is the big one, but there are other new features as well.
Double Shot #1613
- Upgrading to Ruby on Rails 5.0 from Rails 4.2 – application use case - One developer's experience. Looks to me fairly representative of the pain involved in a Rails version upgrade.
- Bioruby - Open source bioinformatics library for Ruby.
- Switching from rbenv to postmodern’s ruby-install and chruby - Changing tools for managing multiple ruby versions on a single dev box.
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