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, improved migration generator and more. Learn all about these new features in this episode.
FREE Online Course: Programming for the Web with Ruby
Programming for the Web with Ruby Registrations are now open for RubyLearning’s FREE, online course on “Programming for the Web with Ruby“. Web-based applications offer numerous advantages, such as instant access, automatic upgrades, and opportunities for collaboration on a massive scale. However, creating Web applications requires different approaches than traditional applications and involves the integration...
Modularized Association Methods in Rails 3.2
Happy Friday! It's Rails 3.2 day! The official release announcement mentions a few of the big changes, but I'd like to take a moment to highlight a relatively small change I was responsible for, one that I hope may make your life a little easier.
From...
Ruby Heroes
Jason and Peter talk about Git Heroes, Ruby Heroes, and the usual round up of projects, blog posts, and gems.
Rails 3.2.0: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store
So we didn’t quite make the December release date as we intended, but hey, why break a good tradition and start hitting release targets now! In any case, your patience has been worldly rewarded young grasshopper: Rails 3.2 is done, baked...

