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Win a Free Ticket to php|tek for Your User Group!

Elizabeth Naramore — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:05:08 GMT

User group leaders, listen up! We have an extra Full Experience tickets to php|tek, and we'd like to give it to the community to use. php|t...

#350 REST API Versioning

Ryan Bates — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT

APIs should be consistent, but it is difficult to do this when returning a JSON response along side the HTML interface. Here I show how to add a versioned, RESTful API. The version can be determined from either the URL or HTTP headers.

Announcing Database-less environments

Ines Sombra — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:35:26 GMT

At Engine Yard, we believe that you should have the flexibility to set up your environments and manage your data stores as you see fit. This is something we take seriously as we continue to evolve Engine Yard Cloud and today, we are happy to announce database-less environments as an alpha rele...

Infographic: A Mobile Storm in the Cloud

Loreal Lynch — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:47:28 GMT

Did you know that there are 3 billion more smartphones on earth than there are humans? Maybe that doesn’t come as much of a surprise to you. But what you might find more surprising is that the growth in smartphone adoption has actually contributed to Engine Yard’s success. That’s right: as sma...

Exciting New Integration: Badgeville in our Helpdesk!

Jamie Bleichner — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:17:11 GMT

We are pleased to announce that we have integrated Badgeville’s gamification technology into our Zendesk ticketing system. As you use the helpdesk to perform different actions, (searching documentation, contributing to forums, completing satisfaction surveys, etc.) you will be able to earn m...

All Presentation Software is Broken

Mon, 14 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT

Whenever the point I'm trying to make lacks clarity, I often find myself trying to dress it up: fade in the points, slide in the chart, make prettier graphics. It is a great tell when you catch yourself doing it. Conversel...

Spec smell: explicit use of subject

David — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:13:46 GMT

TL;DR

Explicit use of the “subject” abstraction is a code smell, and should be refactored to use a more intention revealing name whenever possible.

One liners

rspec-core suppo...

Engine Yard Expands IaaS Offerings with HP Cloud Services

Bill Platt — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:01:04 GMT

We’re excited to announce that we’re expanding the infrastructure options available to our customers with support for HP Cloud Services. We empower developers by providing a rock-solid platform with choices of infrastructure and components that make their job of building great applications as ...

How to fix the Ruby 1.9 HTTPS/Bundler segmentation fault on OS X Lion

Hongli Lai — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:38:29 GMT

If you’ve installed a gem bundle on OS X Lion the past few weeks then you may have seen the dreaded “[BUG] Segmentation fault” error, where Ruby sees to crash in the connect C function in http.rb. Upgrading to the latest Ruby 1.9.3 version (p194) doe...

Multiple Ruby Version Support on Heroku

Richard — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:27:00 GMT

Maximizing parity between development and production environments is a best practice for minimizing surprises at deployment time. The version of language VM you're using is no exception. One approach to this is to specify it using the same ...

#348 The Rails API Gem

Ryan Bates — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT

It is often asked: Is Rails a good fit if I only need to serve an API? In this episode I show how to use the Rails API gem to create a slimmer Rails application designed to respond with JSON.

All About High Availability

Sal Cardello — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:22:15 GMT

What is a High Availability system? There are multiple opinions/definitions of high availability. Some people refer to it as Disaster Recovery; I refer to it as an implementation to ensure that business systems spend minimal time down from a disaster.

For the purpose of this post, I thi...

Crane: Heroku's new $50 per month production database

Matthew — Tue, 08 May 2012 21:09:17 GMT

From the Heroku Postgres Blog:

"Last week we launched our dev plan, a free database designed for development and testing....

[Off-Topic] Reading with subtitles over Kanjis in Japanese webpages

Fabio Akita — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:36:41 GMT

This is something I just stumbled upon and because it’s tricky to install the first time I decided to grab the pieces that make it work. It’s so useful I had to post about it.

If you’re learning Japanese this will definitely prove to be an invaluable tool. I am Japanes...

Five Common Rails Mistakes

Mike Perham — Sun, 06 May 2012 03:01:16 GMT

I’ve worked with Rails for quite a while now and in that time I’ve seen a lot of Rails applications and both read and written a lot of bad Ruby code. Here’s five common mistakes that I see in almost every Rails codebase.

1. Mi...

rspec-mocks and rspec-rails-2.10.1 are released!

David — Sat, 05 May 2012 06:34:08 GMT

These are patch releases recommended for anybody who has already upgraded to 2.10.

rspec-mocks-2.10.1

full changelog

Bug fixes

fix http://rubydoc.info/gems/rspec-core
http://rubydoc.info/gems/rspec-expectations
http://rubydoc.info/gem...

Announcing Better SSL For Your App

Craig — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:26:34 GMT

SSL is a crucial part of any web app with a login session. As Firesheep demonstrated, HTTPS everywhere is the path forward for modern web apps. Heroku follows this with our own login-protected ap...

Introducing Bloggy: A simple way to add a Jekyll blog to any Rails application

Zach Bruhnke — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:22:18 GMT

One of the most popular tools our customers use to help drive traffic to their site is a company blog. Blogs that are informative and helpful will attract your target audience and bring attention to your website, and more importantly, your work.

Here at Engine Yard, ...

#346 Wizard Forms with Wicked

Ryan Bates — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:00:00 GMT
Creating a wizard form can be tricky in Rails. Learn how Wicked can help by turning a controller into a series of multiple steps.