Double Shot #1493
- Docker, Rails & Docker Compose together in your development workflow - See how to use Docker Compose (the successor to fig).
- Debride gets Whitelisting - A nice improvement to this static analysis tool designed to catch unused code.
- Announcing Ruby Together - A way to channel money to Ruby infrastructure projects like gems and bundler.
- Deploy without downtime - Some hints on upgrading Rails apps without shutting them down.
- Artoo - Ruby development system for programming various consumer robots.
Double Shot #1492
- Docker in Practice - A Guide for Engineers - Book-in-progress from Manning.
- GemUpdater - Combines updating your installed gems with retrieving links to changelogs so you can see what you just broke.
- Deploying Ruby on Rails applications with ansible - Out with Capistrano, in with devops.
- Monitoring Docker with docker-scout - How to get useful information with reasonably low overhead.
- vruby - Another take on ruby version management.
Double Shot #1491
- Rails 4.2.1 and 4.1.10 have been released! - The next round of stable branch updates are out.
- Life Beyond Rails 2: A Second Look at Alternate Web Frameworks for Ruby - A look at some of the minor contenders.
- How to handle big repositories with git - Some techniques for dealing with both long histories and large files.
- 7 must have Development Gems to install on every project - Or at least ones that are helpful for most Rails projects.
- Hackr.io - "Share and discover the best programming tutorials online" with a whole mess of links sorted by language.
Double Shot #1490
- Tiny Docker Operating Systems - A quick look at Boot2Docker and RancherOS.
- Carrierwave-iOS in Open Source: Easier File Networking - New bits to handle moving assets on to iOS devices from Rails applications.
- Kitematic a Docker GUI Joins the Docker Family - "the fastest and easiest way to use Docker on the Mac."
- Substitution with Regex Groupings - A bit of more advanced regex knowledge.
Double Shot #1489
- ColorPoundSpecReporter - Colorized spec output for your Minitest use.
- Using Named Pipes and Process Substitution - A dive into some of Unix that I knew next to nothing about (and will probably not remember when I need it, to be honest).
- I broke git - Solutions to some common git screwups.
- Phusion Passenger 5.0.4 - They're still trying to whack all the bugs in the latest release.
- Open-sourcing Pinball - A newly-released workflow manager from Pinterest.
Double Shot #1488
- sublime-markdown-extended - ST2/ST3 Markdown syntax highlighter with support for GitHub and other extensions to Markdown.
- Vim Config for Rails Ninjas - I'm a bit perplexed by the notion that there is no other alternative, but this is a good look at how to set up vim for working with Rails files.
- USB Typewriters - Custom electromechanical input devices. WANT. (Definitely distinct from "need").
Double Shot #1487
- Viewmaster - Gem to allow easy switching between old and new versions of your Rails site when you upgrade your views.
- Debride - Static code analyzer to find unused methods in your Ruby code.
- Afterglow - Minimal dark theme for Sublime Text.
Double Shot #1486
- Phusion Passenger 5.0.2 - Important bugfix for the latest Passenger release.
- gg - A fresh package of git shortcuts.
- SkyBlue CSS Framework - A minimal framework in SASS, for times when Bootstrap is too much.
Double Shot #1485
- TuneMyGC - Add a gem to your Rails app, get back recommendations on garbage collection tuning.
- My Weird Ruby - Some unusual idioms that you might find useful.
- GitSavvy - Fancy git and GitHub integration for ST3.
Double Shot #1484
- Blocks, procs and lambdas - Various bits of ruby esoterica.
- Ruby 2.2.1 Released - Another stable release for your upgrading pleasure.
- Phusion Passenger 5.0.1 Released - Upgrades everywhere!
Double Shot #1483
- Unorthodocs: Abandon your DVCS and Return to Sanity - A suggestion that GitHub has led a lot of projects into a path of more complexity than they need.
- Introducing Yesql for Ruby using ROM - Hook up some plain old SQL to your Ruby apps and avoid the ORM overhead.
- Airbrussh - Replacement log formatter for SSHKit designed to make Capistrano output prettier.
Double Shot #1482
- Announcing Docker Machine Beta - "Zero to Docker" with support for a bunch of cloud and local providers.
- Modular Rails - A guide to building up Rails applications from smaller chunks in a $39 eBook with screencasts and code available.
- Announcing Sassquatch: A Zero-setup Sass Previewer for OS X - Write SASS, see CSS.
- Rails 4.2.1.rc3 and 4.1.10.rc3 have been released! - Still trying to stamp out regressions on the way to a final release.
Double Shot #1481
- Class Inheritance: Part 2 (Singletons and Eigens, Oh My!) - Just in case ruby doesn't already confuse you.
- Ruby 2.0.0-p643 Released - Last non-security release for Ruby 2.0.
- Rails 4.2.1.rc2 and 4.1.10.rc2 have been released! - Still trying to get to a final release.
Double Shot #1480
- Traveler - Gem to simplify building self-contained apps with Traveling Ruby.
- Ruby Heroes - Annual nominations for influential Ruby developers is open.
- Support for Ruby 1.9.3 has ended - No more security fixes. Time to update, if you haven't already.
Double Shot #1479
- Mastering git submodules - An extensive look on when and how to use these troublesome beasts.
- Rails 4.2.1.rc1 and 4.1.10.rc1 have been released! - So they have, and release versions are not far behind.
- Docker Containers on the Desktop - Use Docker for EVERYTHING!
Double Shot #1478
- gist-compile - Organize your Github Gists into a pretty website of code snippets.
- Gem of the Week - rails-erd gem - Part of an ongoing series, this one generates entity-relationship diagrams from ActiveRecord.
- EC2 Container Service (ECS) Update - Integration between Docker and Amazon EC2 is now a thing.
Double Shot #1477
- Gulp on Rails: Replacing the Asset Pipeline - If the asset pipeline has you frustrated, you might want to look into this alternative. Though moving away from the Rails opinions is always fraught.
- Testmunk - Functional testing for Android and iOS applications on a pool of actual devices.
- Rails on Docker - A "getting started" tutorial.
- Announcing Graylog v1.0 GA - A production-ready log management platform.
Double Shot #1476
- Codeship - Commercial continuous integration service with parallel test pipelines available.
- Sonny.js - Small framework for single-page web sites with nested templates and an emphasis on scalability.
- Goldiloader - Automatic eager loading for ActiveRecord models.
Double Shot #1475
- Creating a Remote Development Machine - How to move everything to the cloud including your development tools.
- Docker 1.5: IPv6 Support, Read-Only Containers, Stats, "Named Dockerfiles" and More - The latest round of updates to Docker.
- Why Does Style Matter? - Because it makes it easier to find actual bugs.
Double Shot #1474
- Best Online Resources to Master Rails - Tutorials, courses, and books.
- Hold Please - A gem you can drop in to your project to prevent you from using ActiveRecord callbacks. Seems like a baby/bathwater situation to me but what do I know?
- Customizing Rake Tasks In Rails 4.1 And Higher - With an example of overhauling the testing tasks.
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