Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 » Blog Archive » Great Ruby on Rails REST resources
I have been playing around with RESTful Rails recently. Below is my collection or Rails REST howtos, tutorials and other resources I have found so far.
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Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things We Learned the Hard Way - Axon Flux - A Ruby on Rails Blog
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous.
Lightning Talk: Coverage based Test Case Prioritization in Ruby on Rails
For my computer science bachelor's thesis I programmed and evaluated a CLI Test Case Prioritization (TCP) tool for makandra. It has been written as a Ruby Gem and was tested and evaluated against one Ruby on Rails project....
BlogFish: Ruby on Rails Security
Recently I've been made aware of people inside US Government organizations using my Ruby on Rails Security presentation as an excuse to limit Ruby on Rails adoption and projects inside those organizations.
MailStyle: A HTML Email Plugin for Ruby on Rails | Purify Blog
MailStyle allows you to write the css for your html emails as you normally would, then writes the styles inline when you send your emails. It also makes sure that your image paths are absolute rather than relative.
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and _why: The disappearance of one of the world’s most beloved computer programmers
Nice article to educate your non-geek girlfriend/boyfriend about the joys of programming.
Handy! RGB to HSL and RGB to HSV color model conversion algorithms in JavaScript - Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog
Here is a set of additive color model conversion algorithms that I found published on Wikipedia and have implemented in JavaScript.
Handy: A regex that validates all valid email addresses (give or take) - Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog
/^([\w!#$%&'*+-/=?^`{|}~]+.)*[\w!#$%&'*+-/=?^`{|}~]+@((((([a-z0-9]{1}[a-z0-9-]{0,62}[a-z0-9]{1})|[a-z]).)+[a-z]{2,6})|(\d{1,3}.){3}\d{1,3}(:\d{1,5})?)$/i
RubyMine crashes Ubuntu 11.04 window decorator on exit
My RubyMine (and it seems like many other Java GUI applications) crashes the Compiz window decorator almost every time on exit. This also seems to happen for the Unity decorator.
Update: The commited fix from below seems to have made it into ...
MongoMapper for Rails 2 on Ruby 1.9
MongoMapper is a MongoDB adapter for Ruby. We've forked it so it works for Rails 2.3.x applications running on Ruby 1.9. [1]
makandra/mongomapper is based on the "official" rails2 branch [2] which contains commits t...
Make Sure Your Rails Application is Actually Caching (and not just pretending) - Alfa Jango Blog » Blog Archive
It occurred to me that many Rails/Passenger/Apache applications may have caching set up in a way that it appears to be caching, when it is not actually caching.