Posts Tagged ‘ gems ’

In which I introduce Bin, an ActiveSupport MongoDB cache store for Rails 2 and 3.

In which I divulge the new hotness that is version 0.8 of MongoMapper.

Book Status The Cucumber chapter is nearing final edit for beta. I cleared up a handful of errata, of which probably the most serious was a mistake on how to get the fixture data to pass the first test in the book. I’m hoping to get Beta 3 out later this week, and then...
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One of the primary functions of any ORM (e.g. Active::Record) is to provide all those neat little “ghost” methods to manipulate your persistent data.  The problem is that ghosts are invisible.  It can be frustrating to open a model file and see nothing about the model’s attributes.  For Active::Record the solution is the annotate...
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In which I release a new gem that adds the whois command to Rubygems.

In which I share a new project that joins GridFS and MongoMapper so simply you will be rocked.

In which I release another project, this one abstracted from a few recent apps.

taps is a database agnostic import/export gem that works with all the databases that sequel supports, including Amalgalite, ADO, DataObjects, DB2, DBI, Firebird, Informix, JDBC, MySQL, ODBC, OpenBase, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite3. It is also used by Heroku to push and pull your apps databases. ~ % gem install taps Here is a quick snippet that shows...
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In which I relinquish the day to day maintenance of a few of my projects.

I wonder what language I’ll be writing code in five years from now?Fukuoka Ruby Award 2010 – There’s some money to be had out there for the right projects. Transition – Gemcutter is becoming the default gem host for the Ruby community. riot – Another ruby unit-testing framework, focused on speed. Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7-2009.10 released –...
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