Drink#44: Your Ruby on Rails drinks for the day

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1. Inside Ruby on Rails: Serializing Ruby objects with JSON – Simone ...: Simone Carletti wrote on ActiveSupport::JSON and regular JSON for json serializing of your ruby objects.
2. Live free: RailsConf for Ruby on Rails.: Chetan announces the RailsConf at Baltimore Convention Center.
3. Ruby on Rails Migration Cheat Sheet: This is quite a comprehensive list of commands that you need to manage database related stuffs in ruby on rails.

Drink#43: Ruby on rails blog rolls of the day

Well, its raining all day here in Calgary. So, I thought I would share a coffee with you instead of a juice!

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1. How to check if an ActiveRecord attribute is present : A simple tip that's often unnoticed even by many experienced ruby on rails pros!
2. Nestful: A Simple Ruby HTTP/REST Client Library: Peter Cooper shares a simple RESTful ruby client that can be used to easily make RESTful requests and consume the responses.
3. Thinking In Rails » Blog Archive » Favorite Ruby and Rails Podcasts: Alan shares a nice list of podcast sources for keeping up to date with ruby on rails.

Drink#42: Your Ruby on Rails blog roll for the day

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1. Rails 3 with RVM FTW!: Hugo Baraúna shares some RVM commands to get side-by-side installation of multiple ruby instances that may help you in testing out the Rails 3 beta features.
2. 45minute video on introduction to Windows Azure and running Ruby on Rails in the cloud: Ruby on rails on the Microsoft cloud framework.
3. ASP.NET MVC vs. Rails 3: A comparison between ASP.NET MVC and Rails 3. I personally think this list is not comprehensive and has a few key points missing such as the plugin architecture in rails, RESTful API and the likes. But its good as a basic comparison.

Drink#41: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

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1. A Whole New ActionMailer: Another screencast on ActionMailer 3!
2. Episode 211: Validations in Rails 3: Ryan Bates on new validation framework for ActiveModel objects.

Drink#40: Ruby on rails blogs of the day

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1. Recurring events: Fabio Yamate on the use of Recurrence gem which fires recurring events for your ruby on rails applications. Other alternative solutions are whenever, rufus-scheduler etc.
2. Tickle: An extension of chornic that parses recurring times such as every 3 weeks or middle of month for recurring events! Source: A fresh cup blog.

Drink#39: Your ruby on rails blogs for the day

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1. Named Gem Environments and Bundler: Katz continues on some bundler goodies compared to Rubygems.
2. Introducing BrB, extremely fast interface for doing distributed ruby: Interprocess communication between two/more ruby programs using a middleware.

Drink#38: Ruby on rails blogs for the day

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1. Episode 210: Customizing Devise: Ryan Bates with the second screencast on Devise that talks about customizing Devise ruby on rails full stack authentication/authorization to your needs.
2. state_machine 0.9.0: Locked and loaded: The state_machine plugin is fully loaded for Ruby on Rails 3 and on its way to Release 1.0.0.

Drink#37: Ruby on Rails blog posts for the day

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1. Census: Rails Demographics Collection: Mark Kendall introduces census, a gem to take care of your customer feedbacks for the ruby on rails apps.
2. Testing Top Level Methods in Ruby with RSpec: Kyle Gibson shares a simple technique to test top level methods (the ones apparently outside any module or class) in ruby.
3. A new Chapter 2 for Ruby on Rails Tutorial: The ruby on rails online tutorial book has a new chapter now!
4. Ruby Require Order Problems: Katz with another post on the shortcomings of rubygems and require related issues that are now solved in bundler and ruby on rails 3.

Drink#36: Ruby on Rails Blog Roll For the Day

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1. Installing RSpec for Rails 3: Installing RSpec and autotest through bundler.
2. Announcing Engine Yard University: Zero to Rails 3: Anders Tjernlund announces Ruby on Rails training school during May 17-19, San Fransisco.

Drink#35: Your Ruby on Rails Blog Roll For the Day

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1. IronRuby 1.0 Released: Microsoft’s 3 Years With Ruby Pay Off: Microsoft now has the first major release of IronRuby. I am excited to test it :-)
2. Rails 3.0: Third beta release: Here comes Ruby on Rails Beta 3, one step closer to the RC. 

Drink#34: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

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1. Deep Object Cloning in Ruby on Rails: Cameron shares his praise for DefV's  deep_cloning plugin.
2. Full Text Search in Ruby on Rails 3 - ferret: A step by step guide to use ferret in ruby on rails 3 apps.
3. Learning new things about Ruby on Rails every day: Some commonly unnoticed Ruby on Rails goodies: OrderedHash, group_by and any?
4. Some of the Problems Bundler Solves: Katz on his insights about decisions that were made as they developed the new bundler v 0.9 for Ruby on Rails. A really nice technical read.

Drink#33: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

My NetNewsWire RSS Reader went silent after I changed my google account password :-( However, after a weekend's break here's your Ruby on Rails juice to the start the week.

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1. Twongo Website & Screencast: Gregg Pollack shares Tongo.com, one of their new ruby on rails product. I like the concept of team buying. Take a look if you aren't already familiar to this.
2. I am speaking at RailsConf 2010: (From Lindsaar.net) The talk title is called "Itch Scratching the ActionMailer API".
3. Episode 209: Introducing Devise: Ryan Bates on Devise, a full-featured authentication solution for Ruby on Rails.
4. Ruby on Rails: How to bypass Model validation | Randika Rathugama: Randika shares save_with_validation(false) as a way to avoid ActiveRecord validations.

Drink#32: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

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1. Announcing Rails Dispatch!: RailsDispatch.com is gonna be another ruby on rails resource site.
2. Snapbird - Twitter search on steroids: Need to search twitter feeds? Here you go!
3. Rails 3 Session Secret and Session Store: The session secret got even smarter in Ruby on Rails 3.
4. Awesome option parsing.: Command line optional arguments parsing using clean code.

Other Ruby on Rails link blog:

1. Double Shot #686: Mike Gunderloy

Drink#31: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

Not a lot of posts from the ruby on rails community in the last two days :-( However, here's your little drink!

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1. What’s new in Rails 3.0 Beta 2: Jacob discusses the changes pushed in Ruby on Rails 3 beta 2.
2. awesome_print: A New Pretty Printer for your Ruby Objects: Your favorite puts extended beautifully with colors and visuals!

Drink#30: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

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1. Episode 208: ERB Blocks in Rails 3: Ryan Bates on Rails 3 beta2 way of using erb tags that revised the use of = sign to conform to the standards.
2. Deployment of Ruby on Rails applications on OpenBSD « Helion-Prime ...: Alex writes on ruby on rails deployment platform thats ready to scale!
3. Testing RESTful response types: Jamie shares is assert_response_is method to test for various response types.
4. Saving Attachments using TMail And Ruby OnRails: POP3 and Ruby on Rails to get the attachments from an email inbox.

Drink#29: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

Wish you all are enjoying easter holidays. Here is your ruby on rails drink for today!

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1. Quick tip: search forms: Using openstructs and form_for to simplify multi attribute search forms.
2. If you're lazy and you know it write your specs!: Counter balance your lazy instinct by writing Specs :-)
3. Delayed Job hits 2.0: Delayed Job 2.0 is released which is allegedly 6 times faster than the 1.8.5 version using ActiveRecord! 

Drink#28: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

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1. Premailer - prep your HTML email by inlining CSS: Html emails often are better with inline CSS. Premailer helps you just do that.
2. Some good Ruby on Rails tutorials: A good collection of resources for learning Ruby on Rails.
3. Using .gemspecs as Intended: wycats on standard approach to build ruby gems.

Other Ruby on rails link blogs:

1. Double Shot #682

Drink#27: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

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1. Rails 3.0: Second beta release: David announces Ruby on Rails 3 beta 2 release. Give it a try!
2. Padrino: A Webapp Framework Wrapped Around Sinatra: Sinatra wrapped smartly inside Padrino with a host of extras!
3. Calling Shell Commands From Ruby: 4 lines of code has a nice post on running shell command from ruby.
4. Internationalize (I18n) an Array of Strings in Rails: 4 lines of code has another tip on using arrays in your yaml or yml files that may be useful in internationalization.
5. JavaScript Style: Camel case java script or underscored? Javascript libraries seem to be on the camelCase side!

Drink#26: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

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1. Slice your Arrays: Simple ruby way to slice and shuffle your arrays using each_cons, each_slice and shuffle!
2. Introducing Rails Routes TextMate Bundle: Easy ruby on rails code navigation for TextMate using this bundle!
3. Bundle Me Some Sanity: Take a look at the bundler goodies as things are stabling down towards the release of Ruby on Rails 3.

Drink#25: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

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1. Formtastic 0.9.8: Here comes Formtastic 0.9.8!
2. Pivotal Pulse and Integrity: terry talks about Hudson, Pulse and Integrity for continuous integration and different kinds of ruby on rails tests.
3. flash.now - did you know?: Its my little post on flash.now vs flash!