Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Drink# 158: Your Ruby on Rails Juice


  1. Rails is now tested on Travis-ci: Another milestone for Travis-ci, they are taking care of the Continuous Integration for the Rails github repo. If you haven't tried yet, please give it a shot for your open source ruby on rails projects.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Drink# 157: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. .rvmrc and OSX Lion terminal: Make a new tab to call "cd ." by default!

Monday, July 25, 2011

Drink# 157: Your Ruby on Rails Juice


  1. Testing Time and Web Requests: Using TimeCop and FakeWeb you have an workaround when testing that involves asserting against current time and making fake web requests.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Drink# 156: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Rails 3.1 Hackfest: This weekend, you got a chance to stabilize Rails 3.1 by reporting/reproducing/fixing as many defects as you can find in your own app by promoting its Rails version to 3.1.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Drink# 155: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Matz joins Heroku: Listen to this podcast for more.
  2. RubyConf 2011 is open: New Orleans, $350!
  3. Using Sass, Sprokets and Compass with Rails 3.1: Dustin Tinney shows you how to get them working with code example.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Drink# 154: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. YAML Record: Kind of an active record adapter that can deal with YAML files containing your records.

Friday, July 8, 2011

Drink# 153: Your Ruby on Rails Juice

  1. Star rating with Rails and jQuery: Now a days, it seems like "like" has taken the place of stars. However, for who still needs the stars, there's a video.
  2. Converting binary data to hex string using hex_string gem: hex_string will convert between "hello" and "68 65 6C 6C 6F"
  3. Geocoder: Use the geocoder gem for address lookups, finding nearby ones and similar geo-location specific features.