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Double Shot #652 »

Created at: 19.02.2010 13:56, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot bundler css git hoptoad jquery nested_attributes query_trace rails

Remember kids, sleep is for the weak and sensible.

• Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown - The only reason I call the patent system "broken" is that I can't think of a more appropriate word that's fit for polite company.
• Git v1.7.0 Release Notes - Time to upgrade again. Note that there are some minor behavior changes.
• EZ-CSS - Yes, another CSS framework - but not yetanother grid.
• Hoptoad Notifier: Rack and automatic Metal support - Another functionality bump from the Hoptoad folks.
• A Visual Git Reference - With boxes and arrows.
• query_trace - I pushed out a new version of this gem yesterday.
• Rails 3 Beautiful Code - Presentation from Greg Pollack. Personally I am skeptical of "beauty" as a code metric in the working world.
• Bundler and I are breaking up - I've seen quite a bit of Bundler hate recently. Maybe it's just that it's not stable enough yet.
• Is The Singularity Here Yet? - Check the page source.
• Complex Nested Forms with Rails and Unobtrusive jQuery - This worked fine for me after I remembered that _delete had been renamed to _destroy in Rails 2.3.5.

Double Shot #651 »

Created at: 18.02.2010 12:01, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot git icons jquery moonshine rails

Deadlines are raining on me like snowflakes lately.

• VersionControlTools - Somewhat rambling evaluation from Martin Fowler. It's interesting that he chooses git, Mercurial, and svn as the only three to recommend despite plenty of experience with the more "enterprisey" tools.
• Icons Etc. - Another big pile of royalty-free icons and images.
• Rails/jQuery UI sortables with single UPDATE query - Simple tutorial from Henrik Nyh. The SQL is MySQL-specific, but it's easy enough to write a workable method if you're on a different database.
• Smooth Devoperations: Deploying Rails 3 with Moonshine - The Rails Machine guys are committed to making Moonshine work well with Rails 3 while keeping Rails 2 support. Good news all around.
• Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook - Sign up for notification when this one comes out. Jeremy McAnally has already done some great Rails 3 blog entries, so this should be super-useful.

Congratulations Are in Order! »

Created at: 17.02.2010 21:30, source: Engine Yard Blog, tagged: News rails

New Rails Core
Team member Carl Lerche

Some of you may not have noticed, but over Presidents Day weekend two new faces slipped on to the official Rails Core Team roster; we’d like to congratulate Carl Lerche and José Valim on all their hard work this last year!

2009 was a tremendous year for Rails, and we’re finally nearing the finish line with Rails 3. Both Carl and José spent a tremendous amount of time working on Rails 3, and were key factors in getting the codebase as far as it’s come. Without a doubt, Rails wouldn’t be where it is without their efforts.

We’re proud and pleased to have both Carl and José on the Engine Yard open source team, as well as the rest of the dedicated engineers working on Engine Yard-supported open source Ruby projects: Yehuda Katz and Mikel Lindsaar on Rails, Evan Phoenix and Brian Ford on Rubinius, Charles Nutter, Tom Enebo and Nick Sieger on JRuby, and Kirk Haines on Ruby 1.8.6.

The future of Ruby, Rails and all things open source is looking bright; see you there!

Double Shot #649 »

Created at: 16.02.2010 12:57, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot heroku jquery paperclip rails

A slow day yesterday, at least on the web for me.

• Ketchup - jQuery plugin for forms validation.
• rails_metrics - Metrics engine for Rails 3 applications.
• paperclip-on-heroku - Fully-worked example of how to do it.

Double Shot #648 »

Created at: 15.02.2010 13:50, source: A Fresh Cup, tagged: Double Shot bluepill capistrano delayed job fonts jquery rails refraction

Snow and deadlines. Must be Monday.

• Quicksand - Fun bit of jQuery eye candy for rearranging items on screen.
• Monitoring Delayed Job with Bluepill and Capistrano - Putting together a few more bits of infrastructure.
• JQuery Ajax - The latest from PeepCode.
• Rails 3 Testing environment - Gist showing how to set one up safely with rvm.
• TypeDNA - Some interesting font tools, including one that will identify fonts in uploaded images.
• Insourcing - Sarah Allen is experimenting with some ways to cost-effectively grow a development team without the risks of outsourcing, through carefully-managed internships.
• Visual Website Optimizer - Beta hosted service to help you do A/B testing with analysis.
• A/Bingo 1.0.0 Official Release - Alternately, you can just set up your own A/B testing infrastructure.
• Refraction - Rack middleware to replace mod_rewrite. One of the few uses of Rack middleware that actually strikes me as reasonable.