Thursday, March 31, 2011

Drink# 133: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Vim for rails developers: indenting code: See how you can indent your Ruby code in Vim.
  2. Enumerating Ruby: Lazy Chains: Michael Harrington shows you how to implement lazy enumeration in Ruby without using a block.
  3. The End of Monkeypatching: Clone your favorite gem on github and patch it, instead of monkey patching.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Drink# 132: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

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  1. Enumerating Ruby: Object#enum_for: Michael Harrington shares an example of enum_for, a little known ruby feature that will allow lazy collection enumerating, nice post.
  2. MacRuby 0.10 Released: XCode 4 Support and App Store Submissions: Peter Cooper shares the release of MacRuby 0.1, worth taking a look if you wanna try something on the Mac app space.
  3. GitHub Reflog v1.3.21: See some of the hand picked cool projects on github including blue_print, meme, aristo-jquery-ui theme, etc.
  4. Composing Scopes on Multiple Models in Rails 3: This can get messy if you are not careful enough when calling scopes that span across a single model.
  5. Rails Best Practices on Code School: Gregg Pollack announces the Rails Best Practices lessons.
  6. Ruby Did You Know That: #3 (For Loops and Fields): Twist your brain with this funky for looping construct that actually mutates the looping variables!
  7. Episode 258: Token Fields: Ryan Bates shows how to use JQuery token fields to implement autocomplete on many-to-many relations!

Friday, March 18, 2011

Drink# 131: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

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  1. Migrate from Heroku to Engine Yard AppCloud: ey-migrate gem will migrate your test-bed heroku app to EngineYard clould with a single line of command.
  2. Web Designer Needed: Gregg Pollack blogs about an opening at EnvyLabs - one of the well known Rails shops - like the part that their long term goal (albeit vague) is to double the pay that everyone makes today!
  3. wkhtmltopdf and Rails: Michael Marsiglia from Atomic shares about a Rails implementation of screen to pdf using wkhtmltopdf

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Drink# 130: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. JRuby 1.6 Released: Ruby 1.9.2 Support and More: Peter Cooper shares the highlights of JRuby release 1.6
  2. Episode #158 - March 15, 2010: Planet Ruby on Rails sums up the week of Ruby on Rails.
  3. Rubyists for Japan: Tom Mornini spreads the word about helping Japan with the Rubyists for Japan community site.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Drink# 129: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Episode 257: Request Specs and Capybara: Ryan Bates with a post on how to automate browser tests for your rails apps.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Drink# 128: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Episode 256: I18n Backends Ryan Bates shows how to get i18n working using Redis background store instead of YML files.
  2. Web Application Design - A Reading List Samuel Mikel Bowles shares a very good list of books for web developers. This is not Ruby on Rails specific, but the books applies to Ruby on Rails for sure.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Drink# 127: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Sinatra 1.2 is out: Adds slim support and a few other improvements.
  2. How to send email asynchronously using Devise and Rails3: Send you devise generated emails using delayed_job.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Drink# 126: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Introducing Tabulous: Tabs in Rails: A gem to help you with Tabs using Ruby on Rails.
  2. Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners: Learn a few JS design patterns.


Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Drink# 125: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Configuring User Agents with Capybara + Selenium Webdriver: Carlos Antônio of Platformatec shows how to do capybara test with setting iphone as user agent.  
  2. These are a few of our favorite gems: Shawn Anderson from AtomicObject shares their favorite gems!