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One year after accidentally falling in love with Rails

alan — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:07:45 +0000

One year after accidentally falling in love with Rails.

Really interesting article from the Two Pythonistas accidentally fall in love with rails post that was going around the net and the Rails circles a year ago. Now a year in they are back with another interesting post, moving from Rails to Node/CoffeeScript for their new beta release (of what I can’t tell you, I have no idea what ThinkFuse does).

Links of the Week [08/22/2010]

alan — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:00:18 +0000

Ruby Koans – Another good tool for the Ruby and Rails newbies to learn with.
Why Inheritance Sucks – An illustrated explanation.
RVM 1.0.0 Released – Congrats to Wayne for the 1.0 release of the most awesome RVM tool!

Using VIM In Your Workflow

alan — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:40:04 +0000

After a bit of a wait, my buddy Curtis McHale has posted the article I wrote for his site, yourworkflow.ca. You can check out the Using Vim As A Text Editor article over on the site. It’s not just about Vim, but more the day to day coding workflow that I was using, so it includes things like Firefox plugins, Unix utilities, etc.

So head over and check out the workflow site and read not only my fine fine article, but also the other news and podcasts he’s got going on over there.

Rails Tutorial Updated To Rails 3.0

alan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:12:43 +0000

Huge congrats go out to Michael Hartl for upgrading his awesome RailsTutorial.org for Rails 3.0. Now you have the choice of reading the 2.x version or the 3.0 version of the site. Many thanks go to Michael for his hard work and huge contribution to the Ruby and Rails community!

Recent Rails Links

alan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:44:09 +0000

Yea, I’ve been away for a bit, but we’re back with a vengeance this time!

Memory leak tracing in Ruby…. A bit low end for most “normal” users, but good info to know how to get when you do need it
Older article but still relevant: and vs && in Ruby
Phusion has posted part 3 in their Road to Passenger 3 articles
Everything you need to know about RESTful web services
The Perils of Opinionated Software like Rails
A nifty screencast where @garybernhardt moves from Python to Shell to Ruby

Well, back with some links from the last couple of weeks anyway

Rails Links of the Week [06/20/2010]

alan — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:18:25 +0000

A great git reference site from the guys at github… check out http://gitref.org/
More evidence that my buddy Wayne Seguin’s RVM is awesome with RVM Gemsets and bundler
The Ruby Hero Awards at Railsconf
Speaking of Railsconf Videos, Drink Rails has a nice collection of some the video highlights from RailsConf
Nice tutorial on using Uploadify and Paperclip from brianpWins on IRC… the tutorial is for enabling multiple uploads to a Rails site
A proposal to rename “NoSQL Databases” to “Postmodern Databases”. I agree… I’ve mostly ignored the whole nosql thing, coming from a traditional LAMP background dealing with MySQL and PostgreSQL, and I think that a rename might be what nosql needs to seem a bit less “ZOMG!!1!! this is the best new thing evah!!!” type fad.

Links of the Week [06/13/2010]

alan — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:29:03 +0000

Oops! Forgot to post the links of the week yesterday. Here’s the latest link wrapup from the last week.

Nice advice on refactoring your scaffolds in 2 easy steps using before filters.
Another week, another Rails 3 Beta (4) released.
RubyInside has moved over to a Tumblog style, with their reasoning.
Greg Pollack has a new Screencast called Dive Into Rails 3 to help you get started with Ruby on Rails version 3.
This year’s Rails Rumble has been scheduled for Oct 15-17… time to get your rumble on!
Two posts on performance, first is in Rails, second is for Phusion Passenger
A nice tutorial on making a slick HTML5 app and making it fast

Links of the Week [06/06/2010]

alan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:55:47 +0000

So what is the difference between a Lamda and a Proc?
A bit beyond me, but some of my more awesome readers will want to know about Ruby and Cassandra in the Real World
10 More TextMate bundles to make your Rails experience more productive
Great post on making self-reproducing programs in Ruby
Can the current Rails Routing use a better implementation? The discussion starts at the peepcode blog, and DHH and others respond on Hacker News

Links of the Week [5/30/2010]

alan — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:34:14 +0000

Interviews with successful rubyists…. also a basic who’s who in the Ruby community
Unobtrusive Javascript in Rails 3
Ryan Bates throws down a Challenge For Newbies
Accessing Rails 3 Core methods from IRB
ReadMyCode.org went from 0 to launched in 24 hours (at least according to the reddit post)… basically what I want to do with Ruby-Idioms.com!

Rails Links of the Week [05/23/2010]

alan — Sun, 23 May 2010 07:15:15 +0000

Intellisense-like system for TextMate for the Mac Rails hackers out there, via RubyFlow
It’s older, but I hadn’t read it before until adam_ over in #fv.rb posted the I love everything you hate about Java post
Slides from Steve Huffman on building reddit.com to it’s 2.7 million views a month, very interesting how they do their database schema
Yehuda Katz’s common git workflow
Ruby coming to the end of it’s honeymoon period?
Upgrading railsplugins.org to Rails 3
How to do Ajax Searching and Filtering from the Giant Robots blog
Great Vim tips on the giant robots blog. I actually have an article coming out RSN over at YourWorkflow with some similar tips in it
A(nother) Ruby VM performance shootout