Ruby on Rails Planet

Created at: 11.12.2009 14:09, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

A quiet end to the week.

PhoneGap - Open source development tool for building apps that work on iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.
jQuery 'Tab Slide Out" Plugin - Implement one of those little "Feedback" tabs at the side of the page.

Created at: 10.12.2009 15:32, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

It's safe to say I am not looking for more work this month.

Excelsior - Fast CSV parsing gem.
Teambox - Open source Rails-based project management app.
oracle_enhanced adapter - ActiveRecord for Oracle, compatible with Rails 2.3.5.
Ruby Community Survey - If social scientists wrote computer code as well as Rails developers design surveys, we'd bust out laughing.

Created at: 09.12.2009 15:33, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

It's never fun to wake up to "server down" notices.

Gear6 Web Cache Server for the Cloud - Massive "memcache as a service" for your EC2-hosted applications.
Thunderbird 3 - New rev of Mozilla's mail client is out of beta and ready to go.
Google Chrome - Now in official beta for Mac.
nanotest - If you're feeling weighed down by giant Ruby testing libraries, try this one, which implements a single method.
Code Review with Gerrit, a mostly visual guide - I need to take time to set this up.
Easy front-end framework - The next step beyond CSS frameworks, this one boilerplates some javascript and content as well.

Created at: 08.12.2009 14:14, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

Future of RDBMS is RAM Clouds & SSD - Some thoughts on why cheap RAM means the RDBMS still has plenty of future.

Controllers, mount up! The Plataforma way! - A recipe for super-DRY controller code.

Cuke4Nuke - Cucumber for .NET - Cucumber testing makes it over to my old stomping grounds.

rails_datatables - Plugin to hook up jQuery datatables plugin to a Rails application.

Ruby 1.9.1-p376 is released - A security upgrade for anyone running 1.9.1.

JSONLint - Validate your JSON online.

TrackRecord 1.5 - Rails-based timetracking application.

Created at: 07.12.2009 14:34, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot

You know the weekend was crazy when you look forward to a relaxing Monday.

Chargify vs. Spreedly vs. Cheddargetter: Subscription-Billing Service Prices - Comparison of these services. Also check the comments for more useful information.
jQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released - Next round of what's fast becoming the de facto javascript library for Rails apps.
Ruby 1.9.1 & Friends: 11 Months On - Ryan Bigg is still trying to help people switch.
mysql2postgres - Ruby code to convert between databases. Worked fine for me.
William's miscellaneous git tools - Some useful stuff, including seeing the state of repo branches and ranking contributors.


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