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Resque is our Redis-backed library for creating background jobs, placingthose jobs on multiple queues, and processing them later.Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds toperform. Your existing classes can easily be converted to backgroundjobs or you can create new classes specifically to do work. Or, (Read More)
Ruby Inside:
Riot is a new Ruby test framework by Justin Knowlden that focuses on faster testing. Justin was frustrated with his slow running test suites, despite employing techniques such as using factories, mocks and avoiding database access. He realized that a slow-running suite makes one reluctant to run it or expand it - not good (Read More)
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  When designing an online store, you have to consider many different types of customers: repeat customers, first-timers, people in a rush, etc. One thing that would help all of them is optimum usability. You can achieve this in a variety of ways, starting with eliminating the most common usability problems (Read More)
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I’ve got a Ruby Software Engineering position open on my team at Leapfrog Online, in Evanston, IL. The ideal Rails candidate has: Real-world experience using MVC frameworks to build high-traffic web sites and applications. While we don’t expect any graphic design skills from our developers, candidates should be well-versed (Read More)
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Bark Design Architects, a small Australian practice located in Noosa Heads, Queensland, have designed a studio for themselves to work in.Full description after the photos….The Studio of Bark Design ArchitectsArchitects Stephen Guthrie and Lindy Atkin’s brief for themselves was to ’showcase’ their design approach and philoso (Read More)
Riding Rails - home:
I’m always impressed by the continuous flow of innovation from the Rails community. Below are just a few of the highlights from the past month. These stories all came from the Ruby5 Podcast, which covers all the news from the Ruby and Rails community twice weekly. Authentication The talented Brazilian guys over at Plataf (Read More)
Ruby Inside:
If you've worked with Web apps using Ruby, you might know of Rack, an interface that sits between Ruby applications and HTTP-speaking Web servers. All of the major Ruby frameworks and server setups use it now, including Rails. Middleware (in Rack) is code that manipulates data going back and forth between your Ruby apps and (Read More)
Riding Rails - home:
So, Edge Rails is still chugging right along. There are new and interesting fixes, changes, and refactors going on all of the time. So, lets take a look at just a few that've gone in since the last post (it's been a while, I know, I'm sorry!).ActionView and HelpersXSS escaping is now enabled by default. This means that i (Read More)
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Egyptian Ruby developer Muhammed Ali (of MySQLPlus fame) has released the first draft of a "Ruby 1.9.x Web Servers" booklet. It looks at how different HTTP daemons and server libraries (Thin, Passenger, WEBrick and Mongrel) perform in Ruby 1.9.1. You can read the book for free on his site or on Scribd, but if you want to do (Read More)
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We’ve been running Unicorn for more than a month. Time to talk about it.What is it?Unicorn is an HTTP server for Ruby, similar to Mongrel or Thin. It uses Mongrel’s Ragel HTTP parser but has a dramatically different architecture and philosophy.In the classic setup you have nginx sending requests to a pool of mongrels using (Read More)
Ruby Inside:
The 1-day WindyCityRails conference happened again this year, this time in downtown Chicago at the Westin Hotel on September 12. Reviews were generally positive with the conference sessions balancing immediately-useful Ruby and Rails tips with related concepts like functional programming and design. All of the main track s (Read More)
Ruby Inside:
They've had several days to settle in, but because most of you will be reading via the RSS feed it's time to make a point to announce that... Ruby Inside and Rails Inside have both been redesigned! If you usually just read the full-text RSS feed, do come and visit the site - if only to let us know what you think.The new des (Read More)
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I have not really used Ruby much. I’ve written a few tutorials, messed around with RSpec and Test::Unit and even Rails a bit, but I really don’t know Ruby that well. I get Ruby (the MOP, instances, blocks, open classes, ...) but there’s a difference between understanding that stuff and using it day-to-day. Last night we had (Read More)
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  What would you do if you were suddenly stranded on a desert island in the middle of nowhere, with only a USB drive, a dial-up internet connection, and a barebones computer with no software outside the operating system installed? Of course, you’d use the internet connection to call for help first, but what (Read More)
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  A few months ago, Anton Isaykin in collaboration with the company 2comrades discovered a serious security problem that is quite typical of big projects (we do not name names here). To test it, they obtained the file structures and even the source code of about 3320 Russian websites and some major English-l (Read More)