blog.titanous — http://blog.titanous.com/post/867488976/mailman-released (or on Ruby Inside)Mailman is an incoming email processing microframework. You point it at a source of email, such as a POP3 account or a Maildir, and it will execute routes based on the messages that come in. For instance if you had a ticketing system, and wanted to add...
cogitations.arbia.co.uk — http://cogitations.arbia.co.uk/post/863857348/distributed-ruby (or on Ruby Inside)Due to the nigh insurmountable work of Charles Nutter, Thomas Enebo, Ola Bini and Nick Sieger along with their team we have direct access to Java libraries and thus to a plethora of usefulness. Sometimes I think we forget how lucky we are, the Ruby community,...
weblog.rubyonrails — High off Baltimore Pandemic and Yellow Tops, I believe we promised a release candidate shortly after RailsConf. As things usually go in open source, we gorged ourselves on fixes and improvements instead. But all to your benefit. We’ve had 842 commits by 125 authors since the release of the last...
railscasts — Embedded flash notices, permanent cookies, and the details of respond_with are in this episode.
redmineblog — http://redmineblog.com/articles/redmine-1.0.0-released/ (or on Ruby Inside)It's out, it's out. Redmine 1.0 is released! The first release candidate for Redmine 1.0 has been released to Rubyforge. This is a major release which includes many new features and bugfixes since the last major release, (0.9 in 2010-01-09). This is still considered a release candidate (RC)...
railscasts — There are a number of libraries to help create graphs. Here I show how to integrate Highcharts into a Rails app.
rubyinside — Florian Hanke got in touch to tell me that presentations and photos from the recent Euruko 2010 European Ruby conference are now online. http://euruko2010.heroku.com/ shows off the presentations awesomely! Videos and slides are available for most of them and the video/audio is of a high quality. Highlights include: Continuous Integration and Why You...
ruby-lang — Ruby 1.9.2 RC2 has just been released. This is the second release candidate of Ruby 1.9.2. Psych library has been fixed since the previous candidate. And some minor bugs were fixed.See the NEWS and ChangeLog files for more details.About Ruby 1.9.2Ruby 1.9.2 will be mostly compatible with 1.9.1, except for the following changes: many...
railsmagazine — http://railsmagazine.com/issues/6 (or on Ruby Inside) Rails Magazine is a well designed magazine dedicated to "fine articles on Ruby & Rails" and the recently released issue #6 is special in being nearly entirely Ruby focused. Topics covered include Haml, Sass, Capistrano, Hpricot, RubyConf India and RVM, as well as interviews with Sarah...
rbjl — http://rbjl.net/27-new-array-and-enumerable-methods-in-ruby-1-9-2-keep_if-chunk (or on Ruby Inside)In Ruby, dealing with Arrays and similar objects is pretty fun. And we have gotten more possibilities with Ruby 1.9.2 :)Jan Lelis Just last week, Ruby 1.9.2 RC1 hit the streets and Jan Lelis has had a dig through Ruby 1.9.2's new Array and Enumerable methods with...
labs.voxeo — http://labs.voxeo.com/2010/07/01/announcing-adhearsionconf-2010/ (or on Ruby Inside)We would like to announce the first AdhearsionConf to be held in San Francisco from August 14th to the 15th. Jay Phillips, the creator of Adhearsion, will be joining us for two days of talks, discussions, hacking and pair programming on all things Adhearsion.Jason Goecke AdhearsionConf is...
ruby-lang — Ruby 1.9.2 RC has just been released. This is a release candidate of Ruby 1.9.2. Ruby 1.9.2 will be mostly compatible with 1.9.1, except the following changes: Many new methods New socket API (IPv6 support) New encodings Random class that supports various random number generators Time is reimplemented. There is no longer the year 2038 problem. some...
ruby-lang — Ruby 1.9.1-p429 has just been released. This is a patchlevel release for Ruby 1.9.1. This fixes many bugs and includes the fix for a security vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute an arbitrary code. VunerabilityA security vulnerability that causes buffer overflow when you assign a danger value to ARGF.inplace_mode...
blog.phusion.nl — http://blog.phusion.nl/2010/07/01/the-road-to-passenger-3-technology-preview-3-closing-the-gap-between-development-and-production-rethinking-the-word-easy/ (or on Ruby Inside)Phusion Passenger 3 introduces a new component to the existing lineup: Phusion Passenger Lite. When it comes to usage, its interface is almost identical to that of Mongrel and Thin. Unlike Mongrel, Thin and Unicorn, Phusion Passenger Lite can be directly exposed to the Internet. It can...
blog.zenspider — I've been working on this idea with autotest. Here is the state machine that autotest currently uses: Autotest starts by running all tests. When there is a failure, autotest reruns the failures until they're all passing. Once they're all passing, autotest reruns all tests to ensure you didn't break anything. This last state...
parveenkaler — http://parveenkaler.com/2010/06/30/could-ruby-be-apples-language-and-api-future-3/ (or on Ruby Inside)There has been a shift in development landscape over at Apple. John Siracusa of Ars Technica recently published an article about Apple’s language and API future. I believe Apple is preparing to transition to Ruby as their next default language.Parveen Kaler Parveen pulls together some interesting threads...
programmingzen — http://programmingzen.com/2010/06/28/the-great-ruby-shootout-windows-edition/ (or on Ruby Inside)This post contains the results of a Ruby shootout on Windows that I recently conducted. [..] All tests were run on Windows 7 x64, on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40 GHz, 8 GB DDR2 RAM, with two 500 GB 7200 rpm disks.Antonio Cangiano Antonio Cangiano...
railscasts — Generating PDFs in plain Ruby can be a lot of work. Instead, consider generating PDFs from HTML using PDFKit.
rubyinside — I've been itching to do some audio or video interviews on Ruby Inside - here's the first! Gregg Pollack of EnvyLabs and Ruby5 (previously of RailsEnvy fame) is doing a screencasting and podcasting workshop at BizConf so I thought I'd ask him what that entails and how developers can benefit...
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rubyinside — At RailsConf 2010, Fabio Akita (of AkitaOnRails.com) went crazy with his camcorder and interviewed a wide selection of Rubyists, as well as famous C++ and Agile manifesto developer Bob Martin. The interviews are divided up into groups: Robert Martin - as well as an interview with Fabio, a video of his keynote...
railscasts — In Rails 3 the non-database functionality of Active Record is extracted out into Active Model. This allows you to cleanly add validations and other features to tableless models.
po-ru — http://po-ru.com/diary/ruby-propaganda/ Earlier today, someone on Twitter linked up this fun "Ruby propaganda" poster by Paul Battley. I asked him if I could post a copy here for fun and he pointed out that it's six years old! With Ruby sliding down the TIOBE index a couple of places, though, perhaps it's...
rubyinside — It's been almost a year since Ric Roberts posted about using MongoDB and MongoMapper and I've seen an explosion in the number of people using these tools in the Ruby community since then (I use them heavily on coder.io too). MongoMapper has become the de facto standard way to use MongoDB...
rubyinside — In January 2008, I lamented that the lack of a true mod_ruby was damaging Ruby's viability on the Web (which led to 100+ posts in the comments section!) but within a couple of months Phusion released Passenger (then known as mod_rails) and Ruby webapp deployment hasn't been the same since. Now,...