RubyFlow:
JRubyist Dan Tylenda-Emmons wrote a small article including a handy ruby script to help you transition from ruby on rails to an enterprise class jruby on rails deployment environment. The script will download and install torquebox, set up your paths for you, and install jruby-openssl in an automated process.
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Pivotal Blabs:
Ask for Help 'How do I get growl output using ruby-growl in irb?'Seen at a RubyConf lightning talk, ruby-growl (aka "g") is a library that provides a global "g" methodthat you can use to inspect objects much like Kernel#p. Instead of printing the output to consolethe output goes to Growl, a popular OS X global notificat (Read More)
RubyFlow:
Fukuoka Ruby Award Submission Deadline Extended to DECEMBER 4, 2009. Visit http://www.f-rubyaward.com/index_en.html for more info.
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RubyFlow:
Boson is a unique command framework whose commands are written in plain ruby and usable from the commandline and irb. The latest release introduces more features that are unique to command frameworks: powerful one-liners, custom option types, library dependencies, pipe options, etc. Boson also comes with newfound querying c (Read More)
Pivotal Blabs:
One of our projects had a pending chore in Tracker to move its backend to PostgreSQL from MySQL. This project has about a quarter of a million rows of production data and around a hundred tables in its schema which needed to be exactly migrated into PostgreSQL.Forklifting the data proved more complicated than expected due t (Read More)
RubyFlow:
Though first announced in early 2008, the highly anticipated super-implementation MagLev has finally got its first public alpha release. I've written about it on Ruby Inside and shown how to get it running.
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RubyFlow:
There are 8 alternative Ruby VM's and 4 of them will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year. A detailed look at the past year and where the community is heading (hint: it's an exciting time to be a Rubyist).
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RubyFlow:
SmallRuby is a new Ruby implementation for the Smalltalk/X virtual machine. On some selected benchmarks, SmallRuby trumps existing Ruby implementations 10-40x performance-wise (though take this with a pinch of salt for now). This is a project worth watching..
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Zen and the Art of Programming:
The following is a very short guide on setting up Ruby Enterprise Edition (REE), nginx and Passenger, for serving Ruby on Rails applications on Ubuntu. It also includes a few quick and easy optimization tips.We start with setting up REE (x64), using the .deb file provided by Phusion:wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.ph (Read More)
RubyFlow:
A short guide on setting up Ruby Enterprise Edition (REE), nginx and Passenger, for serving Ruby on Rails applications on Ubuntu.
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RubyFlow:
"g" is a new library that provides a global "g" method that you can use to inspect objects much in the same way as Kernel#p. The difference is that the output goes to Growl, a popular OS X global notifications tool. It's technically an easy gem install and go, but if you have problems with it not finding Growl, this blog po (Read More)
RubyFlow:
We just launched Ruby community statistics, which gives access to various metrics across the community. We generated some graphs based on the current data, a code metrics scatter plot tool for making comparisons, and made all of the data available via our API so you can dig into it. Now you can get answers on question like, (Read More)
Pivotal Blabs:
HelpOne project is releasing soon but has not yet been indexed by Google, what's the best way to get Google to index the website quickly?How do people distinguish between nil and a cache miss when using Memcached and Ruby?Some suggested using a :symbol to represent nil form_for @object sometimes posts to the wrong action, h (Read More)