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Lyle Johnson Retires from the FXRuby GUI Toolkit »

Created at: 06.08.2010 08:10, source: Ruby Inside, tagged: Miscellaneous

Yesterday, Lyle Johnson of the FXRuby GUI toolkit project stood aside as the project's maintainer, effectively retiring the project:

When Jamis Buck wrote last year about ceasing development on Capistrano, his post really struck a chord with me. If this post reminds you of that one, it’s because I re-read it before sitting down to compose this one. [..]

It is with mixed feelings that I announce that I’m stepping away from FXRuby development, effective immediately. I will no longer be accepting bug reports, support requests, feature requests, or general emails related to FXRuby. [..]

Someone on the mailing list asked whether FOX and FXRuby are “pretty much dead.” I can’t speak for Jeroen or the FOX project. As for FXRuby, however, that’s up to you. FXRuby is, and always has been, an open source project. If you are interested in hacking on FXRuby, or even taking over maintenance of the project, please feel free to fork the project on GitHub and release updates as you see fit.

Lyle Johnson

The undertone here is that the FOX Toolkit, upon which FXRuby operates, isn't underseeing significant development and, perhaps, there is little more for FXRuby to be doing (at least, little in the way of exciting or interesting) and Lyle wants to shuffle the project off his plate.

Lyle cites Jamis Buck's dropping of his Capistrano deployment system project as an inspiration, though Capistrano's story turned out to be a happy one after being adopted, for the most part, by Lee Hambley.

“and” vs && and “or” vs || in Ruby »

Created at: 03.08.2010 03:55, source: Ruby Inside, tagged: Miscellaneous

http://avdi.org/devblog/2010/08/02/using-and-and-or-in-ruby/ (or on Ruby Inside)

If you use Ruby long enough, you will discover the and and or operators. These appear at first glance to be synonyms for && and ||. You will then be tempted to use these English oprators in place of && and ||, for the sake of improved readability. Assuming you yield to that temptation, you will eventually find yourself rudely surprised that and and or don’t behave quite like their symbolic kin...

Avdi Grimm

Avdi Grimm presents a concise guide to a matter that confuses the majority of Ruby developers from time to time.

Michael Hartl’s Rails 3 Tutorial Book »

Created at: 29.07.2010 02:33, source: Ruby Inside, tagged: Miscellaneous

The Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (a.k.a. railstutorial.org) by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps. Michael has put together a great Rails 2.3 tutorial, releasing it all for free online chapter by chapter. Now, Michael's going three steps further:

1 — A new, Rails 3.0 focused version. The free online book previously covered Rails 2.3 but Michael's updated it to cover Rails 3.0 too. He's also selling it as a DRM-free PDF for $39 (you get a PDF of the Rails 2.3 version too). As a gesture of goodwill to Ruby Inside's readers, he's made a coupon code that works till the end of August - it's rubyinside01 and gets you 20% off (so a total of $31.20 in the end).

2 — Creative Commons licensing of the existing online text. Like all of us, Michael needs to make some money, but a side benefit is that he's making the existing Rails 2.3 focused text Creative Commons licensed! This will allow you to distribute it, translate it, put snippets on your blog, and so forth. (Update: Michael notes that this is sort of in the air at the moment pending more resources. He has more preparation to do to make this work properly, but the spirit is there.)

3 — A print book, published by Addison-Wesley. A print edition, Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example, is due out in the fall as part of the Professional Ruby Series (the same series as The Rails 3 Way by Obie Fernandez), and is currently available for pre-order at Amazon.

As a bit of a "geek aside", the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book is written using PolyTeXnic, a pure-Ruby markup system built on top of the LaTeX typesetting system. PolyTeXnic converts a select subset of LaTeX to HTML, while also producing PDFs via the pdflatex command.

In addition to supporting code-heavy programming books such as Ruby on Rails Tutorial, PolyTeXnic can also produce mathematical documents; see, for example, Michael Hartl's anti-pi propaganda piece called The Tau Manifesto. Michael hopes to release PolyTeXnic as an open-source project some time later this year. I keep nagging him about it.

Mailman – Like Sinatra for E-mail »

Created at: 28.07.2010 09:06, source: Ruby Inside, tagged: Miscellaneous

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 replies via email to the database, this application would be a good start:

require 'mailman'

Mailman.config.maildir = '~/Maildir'

Mailman::Application.new do
  to 'ticket-%id%@vipsupport.com' do

    Ticket.find(params[:id]).add_reply(message)
  end
end

Jonathan Rudenberg

This is very nice. I love these microframeworks. The Sinatra style is always good to ape.

14 Ruby and Rails Jobs for August 2010 »

Created at: 24.07.2010 01:35, source: Ruby Inside, tagged: Miscellaneous

It's been a couple of months since the last job round up but the Ruby Inside job board has been hopping! There are 14 live listings to go over today and they're not all in San Francisco. Jobs in Denver and Maryland bring in a bit of interesting variety.

A tweak to the format now that Ruby Inside has gone all "tumblelog" on you: I've decided not to include blurbs about every job in the listings since if you're interested in a company or the location is suited to you, you're going to click through and read the extended information anyway. Most companies give quite a lot of detail so click through and check them out.

Ruby on Rails Developer(s) (Entry-level-to-Senior)
CreaTek Solutions, Inc. —Boulder, Colorado

Ruby on Rails Developer
Foraker —Boulder, Colorado

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
Get Satisfaction —San Francisco, California

Sr. Ruby Engineer- CoTweet
ExactTarget + CoTweet —San Francisco, California

Ruby On Rails Developer
On-Site.com —Lafayette, Colorado

Front End Developer
SingleFeed —San Francisco, California

Rails Developer
Context Optional, Inc —San Francisco, California

Sr. Ruby on Rails Programmer (or perl/python/django/catalyst)
Insight —Birmingham, Alabama

Software Engineer, Scalability
Zendesk —San Francisco, California

Software Ruby/Rails leader Engineers
RotoHog —Los Angeles, California

RoR Engineer
Zendesk —San Francisco, California

User Interface Software Engineer
BoxTone —Columbia, Maryland

Front End Developer
Zendesk —San Francisco, California

Frontend Engineer
Onehood, Inc —San Francisco, California

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