Thursday, June 23, 2011

Drink# 152: Your Ruby on Rails Juice


  1. A Guide To Starting Your Own Rails Engine Gem: Gem-up a Rails applications inside another using the enginex gem created by Jose Valim for the Crafting Rails book. This post is a nice detail one that shows the whole process end to end.
  2. YSlow guides: It's an old article about speeding up your web app's response time. I found the 13 rules to be easily explained.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Drink# 151: Your Ruby on Rails Juice


  1. Resque: Ryan Bates with a screencast on Resque, showing how to use it for background jobs with multiple queues.
  2. Multipart templates with Markerb: Jose Valim released a gem out of the markdown template example from this Crafting Rails book that will let you use a single view template for multi-part emails.
  3. The Little Book on CoffeeScript: This is a nice little book, free on the web, for someone new to CoffeeScript.

Friday, June 17, 2011

Drink# 150: Your Ruby on Rails Juice


  1. Make Awesome Web: Really good collection of tools and demos for all web developers using HTML5, JS and CSS 3.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Drink# 149: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Capybara 1.0 Released: Jonas just released Capybara 1.0, an integration testing tool for your Ruby on Rails apps.
  2. "WTH is happening with Rails?" I'll tell you: Ernie is disturbed as some of the folks out there are expressing their concerns about high entry barrier to Rails with the addition of new features like CoffeeScript and the likes.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Drink# 148: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Using SproutCore 2.0 with jQuery UI Yahuda Katz shows how to use SproutCore 2.0 with jQuery UI with an example code.
  2. How to Install and Use Postgres On OS X For Ruby and Rails Development: Peter Cooper shows how to install Postgres SQL on OS X. You may wanna check this out if you deploy your app to heroku, since Postgres SQL is their preferred db.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Drink# 147: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Rails 3.1.0.rc2 is released: See the changes in sproket update and a few rake fixes.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Drink# 146: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. News from the Documentation Front: Want to help the rails documentation/guides team with building a cool API, a quick toggle link to show the test code for an API method? Here's an open invitation at the Rails blog.