I was setting up a Subversion repository one year ago. Of course, I also wanted to have regular backups of...
LaterDude is a small calendar helper with i18n support
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web-applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
Web performance expert Nicole Sullivan discusses a set of best practices in the creation of supremely fast, visually impactful web...
A while back, I had a requirement to persist a record of which email addresses were sent an email through...
Faker, a port of Data::Faker from Perl, is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc...
Maybe I haven’t been paying close enough attention, but over the past few years an interesting variation of CSS...
The argument that using tests is a ideologic waster of time fails when one considers how it can help to...
This guide will walk you through the I18n API and contains a tutorial how to internationalize a Rails application from...
PUT means update the resource with this entity, which tends means "overwrite". Now think for a moment about how that...
I am a huge fan of SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) for styling Rails applications. I have been using it on...
i keep looking for ways to help people 'get' REST. not URLs or HTTP Methods; but REST itself - in a...
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve...
Pocket Informant for the iPhone doesn't just simply let you view your daily events but lets you really work...
Squirrel is an enhancement for ActiveRecord’s find method that allows programmers to query the database using a more Rubyish...
ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails' ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and...
If you know Ruby and you want to write applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone, you’re in...
Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server...
JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting...
A couple of Railsconfs ago, Courtenay and I did indeed discuss
theman is a super simple "framework" that uses god/rufus-scheduler to create long running workers that do things at certain times...
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really...
I just finished reviewing Rails 2.3 Nested Object Forms. While a very nice and “magical” feature, I’ve got to...