RubyFlow is Ruby Inside's community driven sister site where you can post cool Ruby links you want to share (even of your own stuff). With 20–80 posts each week, there's too much to cover on Ruby Inside, but I want to provide a regular roundup of the "best of" RubyFlow. This instalment covers early...
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EventMachine is a simple(ish), fast, event-driven I/O library for Ruby. Its goal is to provide highly scalable I/O performance with an easy-to-use API wrapped around the nastiest parts of the process (since typical Ruby coding practices aren't particularly event-driven friendly). Aman Gupta has put together an awesome 114-page deck of slides (also available as...
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I have been working on a tool to visualize your Amazon Web Services usage logs for EC2, RDS, SQS, S3, SDB (and soon CF). There will be a limited free version and a full version that has the dashboard and the drill down for each of the services. This tool is still in development...
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On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Amit Rathore, author of the forthcoming book – Clojure in Action. In this interview, Amit Rathore talks to the Clojure 101 course participants on Clojure.Michael>> Welcome, Amit and thanks for taking out time for RubyLearning’s Clojure...
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Code in the Cloud: Programming Google AppEngine now in beta, ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide now in print and shipping, PragPub now online in HTML. // ...
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Recently I received a request from another B2B SaaS vendor to integrate with Catch the Best, so their users could pull their data from Catch the Best into this app. This is a classic use-case for OAuth, so I dove in to learning how to make my Rails app an OAuth provider. ...
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The top open request from our recent survey has been for memcached. Memcached is a simple, fast and scalable in-memory object caching system. Dynamic web applications use memcached to store frequently used data, reducing database load. The Heroku memcached add-on is built on the NorthScale distribution of memcached (NorthScale Memcached Server) which...
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Want to develop a Mac OS X app without getting waist deep in Objective C? MacRuby is the answer, and it’s now mature enough to use directly from XCode to build fully-featured Ruby-powered Mac apps. “Jean Pierre Hernandez” of Phusion presents a walkthrough of how to do it, step by step.
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Keep JavaScript out of your HTML content with unobtrusive JavaScript. Here I show how Rails 3 works with this best practice.
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Luke Wroblewski, Chief Design Architect at Yahoo! and author of “Web Form Design“, published a very interesting post about “Mad Libs” Style Forms and how he improved the conversation of vast.com by 25-40%. This is how Luke tweaked the contact form:Read the full post: “Mad Libs” Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% I wondered whether there...
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