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This Week in Ruby: Rails 3.2, Rails Tutorial, and Why You Should Learn Smalltalk

It's the latest Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly, the weekly Ruby and Rails e-mail newsletter (which just tipped 11K subscribers). Ruby Weekly now has a 'tips' page where you can submit links for potential inclusion so if you're releasing something or have written a cool post, fill out the form and you may...

Open Source Report #3

Oh dear, I missed putting one of these out last week. Well, I haven't stopped working on stuff, let's see what I can remember touching. RubyGems - Got myself added to the rubygems team on GitHub - that's kind of scary, really, as now I can break cod...

Double Shot #805

This week just shot by. Must mean I'm enjoying the new job. factual-ruby-driver - Gem to access data from Factual, which has various big datasets for your application's use. JRubyConf 2012 - Coming this May in Minneapolis. Tiny Letter - Possibly m...

Rails 3.2.1 has been released

Rails 3.2.1 is out, with some fixes and doc improvements. Please check the CHANGELOGs gist for details.

Dentaku – a calculator for Ruby

I’m currently working on a project that requires the use of formulas or expressions to implement business rules (the original system is an Excel workbook), and I needed a way to implement some of the same functionality. My first thought was to m...

Double Shot #804

Past the midweek hump, hooray. DocumentUp - Formatter for your GitHub readmes. Kendo UI Mobile - Native UI widgets for building HTML5 applications for iPhone and Android. Enyo - Yet another JavaScript library, derived from HP's TouchPad work. Mak...

The Cucumber Book in print; Scripted GUI Testing updated w/Cucumber and RSpec

The Cucumber Book in print; Scripted GUI Testing updated w/Cucumber and RSpec

Double Shot #803

Early morning: that time before other people muck up your day. Updating our privacy policies and terms of service - I think this might be the straw that drives me off of Google. Not real interested in them deciding to transfer names, profile picture...

Double Shot #802

New job is new and shiny and distracting me from most everything else. Keep your peanut butter out of my chocolate - An argument that the way we do views in most web frameworks is broken. I'm not convinced, but it's an interesting read. SimpleAWS -...

What’s new in Edge Rails #5

Week of January 15-21, 2012 Lots of refactorings this week cleaned up the internals of ActionController and ActionView. Fortunately if you've been paying attention to deprecation warnings these should not have an impact on your applications when yo...

Double Shot #801

I'm happy to be starting work for Labrador Omnimedia today. Rails 3.2.0: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store - Yes, there's a new Rails out. I'm looking forward to using it on a project. SSH Mastery - eBook about mak...

#318 Upgrading to Rails 3.2

Rails 3.2 sports many new features including automatic explain queries, tagged logging, key-value store in Active Record, improve migration generator and more. Learn all about these new features in this episode.