Skipping Asset Compilation with Capistrano
Capistrano has a handy task that runs rake assets:precompile for you when you are deploying your Rails 3.1 application. This gives you an easy way to get the performance boosts of having only one css file and one javascript file to load per request. The price you pay for that benefit is the amount of...
Skipping Asset Compilation with Capistrano
Capistrano has a handy task that runs rake assets:precompile for you when you are deploying your Rails 3.1 application. This gives you an easy way to get the performance boosts of having only one css file and one javascript file to load per request. The price you pay for that benefit is the amount of...
Planet Argon is hiring
Hello all!
I’ve been so busy this year travelling (for pleasure and work) and helping grow the company that I’ve not had much to say here. Expect some posts soon!
In the meantime, if you’re looking for a new challenge… Pla...
Planet Argon is hiring
Hello all!
I’ve been so busy this year travelling (for pleasure and work) and helping grow the company that I’ve not had much to say here. Expect some posts soon!
In the meantime, if you’re looking for a new challenge… Pla...
Performance Testing Rails Applications — How To?
Performance Testing Rails Applications — How To? This guest post is by Gonçalo Silva, who is a full-time Ruby on Rails developer at escolinhas.pt and has participated in the Ruby Summer of Code 2010. He loves and contributes to many open-source projects, being a fan of Linux, Ruby and Android. He likes to call himself...
Careful Cutting To Get Faster RSpec Runs with Rails
A few months ago, Ruby Inside wrote about using Spork with RSpec 2 and Rails 3 in order to get a more sprightly spec run. Unfortunately, using the techniques in the article with our fledgling codebase's test suite left us with somewhat...
20+ Rubyists to Follow on Google+
Google+ What’s Google+ ? Google+, pronounced “Google plus” is a new social network from Google. The service, which is initially available to a select group of Google users who will soon be able to invite others, will let people share and discuss status updates, photos and links, much as they do on Facebook. A list...
What’s Up With All These Changes in Rails?
Yesterday, there was a blog post entitled “What the Hell is Happening to Rails” that stayed at the number one spot on Hacker News for quite a while. The post and many (but not most) the comments on the post reflect deep-seated concern about the recent direction of Rails. Others have addressed the core question...
Building Rails Apps for Rich Client – Using the bulk_api from Flex.
In this screencast we are going to show how to build a Rails app in a couple of minutes that is optimized for Rich Client. The application is a todo application build in Flex connecting using the bulk_api to the Rails server using my new bulk data sour...
DHH’s RailsConf 2011 Keynote Live-Blogged Here
Ruby on Rails' creator David Heinemeier Hansson is currently at RailsConf 2011 along with hundreds of other Ruby and Rails developers. In a first for RailsConf, there's a live stream of some of the event which is was embedded below...
RailsConf 2011 – Day 1
RailsConf 2011 - Day 1
Today is the tutorial days.
He prepared twelve html5 exercises that walked the about 250 attendees through various features of html5 over a 2.5 hour session. It's fun to have time...
Tutorial 1 : html5tutorial
I started RailsConf with the "Building Web Apps with HTML5: Beyond the Buzzword" by Mike Subelsky (@subelsky).He prepared twelve html5 exercises that walked the about 250 attendees through various features of html5 over a 2.5 hour session. It's fun to have time...
Pricing Experiment Follow Up
Thanks so much to those of you who helped me with my pricing experiment. I feel it was a success, with a lot of great feedback. Before I launched the survey I had a price in mind, but I wanted to see what the prevailing opinion would be on what the price should be without...
