Double Shot #1394
Time to catch up a bit...
- A Survival Guide for Legacy Rails Apps - How to get started on improving inherited code.
- Terraform - Infrastructure as Code across multiple providers, including AWS, Heroku, and CloudFlare.
- Bitpost - OS X UI for private decentralized messaging via bitmessage.
- Flight rules for git - Various recipes and helpful hints for better git usage.
- The State of RMagick Development - Basically, "screwed up."
Double Shot #1393
- Looking Backward: Ten Years on Rails - A history of Rails from a long-time user.
- active_mocker - Automatically create mocks from ActiveRecord models to speed up your tests.
- Me and Redis Are Now Friends - A new gem to implement a social graph with Redis backing.
- Drystorm - New Rails App generator now taking beta signups.
Double Shot #1392
- StopLight - HTTP testing tool aimed at testing your APIs "in the cloud."
- Octohost - Tool for setting up your own Docker based server (on Amazon, Digital Ocean, Rackspace or elsewhere) to host web sites with a simple git push.
- Codetree - Project management tool built on top of GitHub issues, now taking applications for early access.
Double Shot #1391
- IPFS: The Permanent Web - Interesting ideas for makring web resources more resilient by combining ideas from Git, BitTorrent, and other distributed systems.
- Bootstrap Themes and Templates - All sorts of free stuff for Bootstrap 3.
- The New HTML sanitizer in Rails 4.2 - And how to customize it.
Double Shot #1390
- How to Wire Up Ruby on Rails and AngularJS as a Single-Page Application - A tutorial using recent versions.
- Tower 2 is Here - Redesigned git client for OS X.
- CockroachDB - Scalable, transactional, geo-replicated data store in alpha at the moment.
Double Shot #1389
- PackageCloud - Hosted package repositories that support rubygems (as well as apt and yum packages).
- Resurrect Pages - Firefox addon that automatically searches through major page caches and mirrors when you run into a broken link or site down due to traffic.
- I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can too - Getting started with your first Firefox patch.
Double Shot #1388
- Duckie - Rubber-ducking as a service.
- DNS.Watch - New set of public DNS servers that promise no censorship and explicit IPV6 resolving.
- Riak 2.0.0 RC1 Release Notes - Plenty of new stuff coming in this NoSQL database.
Double Shot #1387
- High-Low Testing - A strategy for refactoring Rails applications for faster testing.
- RailsInMotion - It's Official - Announcement of a new set of Rails screencasts.
- AwesomeRails - A collection of links to projects and sites made with Rails.
Double Shot #1386
- Drunk User Testing - This may be the missing critical piece of your test strategy.
- GoRails Screencasts - A set of screencasts for Rails developers who want to keep up with current developments.
- Run a remote Rails production console with Capistrano - Capistrano task to let you try things directly on your production server.
Double Shot #1385
- Tools of the Trade - Giant list of SAAS directed at developers, from email testing to bug tracking to prototyping and dozens of other categories.
- iTerm2 2.0 Released - I wouldn't be without this Console replacement on my Macs.
- Recommended Security Setup for AWS - How to reduce your attack surface.
Double Shot #1384
- Ruby Bookmarks - Curated collection of resources for Ruby and Rails.
- Zero Downtime Database Migrations - How to safely update your schema without crashing the application.
- Raygun - Full-featured error tracking service.
Double Shot #1383
- The Hot & Heavy List of Heroku Development Resources - 60 links for those of you building things for deployment to Heroku.
- Announcing Docker 1.1.0 - Development on Docker continues to move forward quickly.
- Prelang - Rails application generator with data modeler, now taking alpha signups.
- deploydo - Deployment as a service. Free to try for a single application.
Double Shot #1382
- Rails 3.2.19, 4.0.7 and 4.1.3 have been released! - You want this security release if you're on Rails 3.2 …
- Rails 4.0.8 and 4.1.4 have been released! - … or this one if you're on Rails 4. Pesky regressions.
- Linux tricks - A medley of quick one-liners to make you more efficient at the command line.
Double Shot #1381
- capybara_minitest_spec - Use RSpec style matchers with capybara and MiniTest.
- From Rails to RubyMotion: basic toolkit - A list of tools to help Ruby developers get started with mobile via RubyMotion.
- ribosome - Simple code generator with Ruby syntax.
Double Shot #1380
Double Shot #1379
On top of a full summer schedule, I'm battling some health issues at the moment. Double Shot isn't dead, but its schedule is likely to be irregular for the next couple of months.
- Wolfram Programming Cloud is Live! - Yet another new thing I'd love to have the time to dig deeply into. It's sort of a coding language with built-in knowledge of the real world.
- Introducing the Orchestrate Ruby Gem - A client for the Orchestrate "NoSQL as a service" database.
- Improve Rails performance by adding a few gems - Some benchmarks for simple drop-in changes.
Double Shot #1378
- Introducing Lotus - New, small, object-oriented and modular Ruby web framework.
- WebIDE Lands in Nightly - Mozilla adds an entire application designer to the latest Firefox builds.
- Rails 4.1.2.rc3 and 4.0.6.rc3 have been released! - With fixes for a couple of Active Record regressions.
Double Shot #1377
- Getting It Right by Betting on Wrong - Sandi Metz explores the Open/Closed Principle.
- DNS-API - Maintain your DNS records via push to a GitHub repository.
- CDNPerf - See the comparative performance of various JavaScript CDNs.
Double Shot #1376
- Web Starter Kit - Boilerplate site and assets from Google for "great multi-device web experiences".
- Ruby programmers/project managers/CEOs Y U NO enforce code quality? - Rant with pointers to some tools for increasing code quality.
- Growing Rails Applications in Practice - Tools and techniques for managing a large codebase. Leanpub book at $10 and up.
Double Shot #1375
- Rails Authorization with Pundit - There's a new tutorial out for RailsApps subscribers.
- Laptop Setup for an Awesome Development Environment - Thoughtbot's automated solution for bringing up a new machine to a Rails environment from scratch.
- App Server Arena: Part 1, A Comparison of Popular Ruby Application Servers - A discussion of Passenger, Thin, Unicorn, and Puma.
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