It’s pretty common for projects hosted on GitHub to receive “pull requests”: requests from people who have cloned your...
Ruport’s acts_as_reportable module provides support for using ActiveRecord for data collection. You can use it to get a Ruport::Data::Table from an ActiveRecord model. This cheatsheet...
Squirrel is an enhancement for ActiveRecord’s find method that allows programmers to query the database using a more Rubyish syntax...
Heroku's architecture enables deployment with nothing but Git. Deployment is fast, simple, and just works – all you do is push code to your repo on Heroku...
One of the things that I always wanted to do but never got around to was to analyze a user...
Unfortunately, by default plugin tests are pretty bland. They use the plain unit test suite supplied by Ruby, and not any of the extended Rails test framework. This will leave...
...m working on a problem for a client which involves connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database from Linux using Ruby. Here’s what I did to get it...
Sass is a meta-language on top of CSS that‘s used to describe the style of a document cleanly and structurally, with more power than flat CSS allows. Sass...
...both provides a simpler, more elegant syntax for CSS and implements various features that are useful for creating manageable stylesheets...
...ActiveRecord's query building tools with a heaping helping of DSL thrown in to save your Ruby-loving fingers from writing nasty SQL...
...criticism on labeling, REST isn’t an all or nothing proposition. One can get significant value from partial adoption...
...on some cool ruby console-based application or just want to add a little style to your script here is a nice gem for you. It’s called Rainbow and...
...it extends ruby String class adding methods to wrap the string with ANSI escape codes...
rFeedParser is a translation of Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser from Python into Ruby. It has nearly the exact...
FeedTools is a simple Ruby library for handling rss, atom, and cdf parsing, generation, and translation as well as caching. It attempts to adhere to Postel’s law—i.e. a...
Metric_fu is a set of rake tasks that make it easy to generate metrics reports. It uses Saikuro, Flog, Flay, Rcov, Reek, Roodi, Subversion, Git, and Rails built-in...
...stats task to create a series of reports. It's designed to integrate easily with CruiseControl.rb by placing files in the Custom Build Artifacts folder...
...s lead, avoiding modes has been an important design goal in all modern computer systems...
Wir sprachen mit Steffen S., Jenny R., Kamil G. und Andreas R., die blind oder mit Sehbehinderung das Internet nutzen und gerade dadurch in Erfahrung und Kompetenz vielen sehenden Netznutzern...
...voraus sind...
hat's the dirty little secret of our industry; green screen apps are usually pretty darn fast. They aren't simple, though. They are designed for trained users, users who...
...have long since added their app usage patterns to their muscle memory...
...do so. We've mirrored what repos we could find and contacted github tech support, who have promised assistance. Whymirror will do what it can to ease the transition but...
...CANNOT be a long-term solution
You want to try out all of the different ruby interpreters and versions including different patchlevels, but you don't...
Apple's random rules for iPhone app approval are a recipe for trivial apps and alienated developers
...re playing at the $1B blackjack table. Forget for a moment that Twitter has smart investors and they’re very aware of what’s going on at the company and...
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.
We say “back in time”, and “back” feel like “left” to me, not right. So let’s break that standard...
sing Google’s JavaScript Library CDN comes with a 1/3 of a second tax on missing. (Note that a tax like this applies to opening connections to a any new...
...This is why you should try to reduce the number of different hostnames you serve content from...