Double Shot #492

July 9, 2009 in Double Shot | Tags: chrome, css, google, railsbridge, ruby, twitter | 2 comments

A bit sad to watch people get all excited over vaporware. We never learn, do we?

Introducing the Google Chrome OS – Reality check: would the tech punderati be so excited if anyone else had announced a new Linux distribution? No? Next! Buzzbird 0.4 – Open source Twitter client that’s reached the point of being usable. Next Steps for Ruby Gender Balance – The SF Ruby community is doing good work in bringing more women to ruby. SlickMap CSS – Stylesheet for sexy display of web site navigation.

Double Shot #491

July 8, 2009 in Double Shot | Tags: agile, exceptional, hoptoad, old_yeller, rails, railsbridge, ruby | 1 comment

My schedule is not full, by the way, in case you need an extra hand to drive a Rails project to a successful conclusion.

old_yeller – Dead code detection for Rails apps, though I’m a bit skeptical about the approach. RubyInstaller: Getting Started with Rails and MySQL – Quickstart instructions for Windows users. July/August Ruby workshop registration open! – Free Ruby workshop for women in the SF area. Hoptoad: same great taste, all new design – Revised UI for this exception-tracking application. Recent growing problems – Nice bit of corporate transparency as Exceptional discusses some outages they had the past few days. The Agile Process Maturity Model (APMM) – I wish this were a joke.

Double Shot #490

July 7, 2009 in Double Shot | Tags: cucumber, gibbler, haml, railsbridge, sass | Leave a comment

Are there more scammers in the world thanks to the net, or do they just have more reach?

Built For Speed: Using Amazon CloudFront To Serve Assets – How to move Paperclip (or whatever) to a CDN. 8 tips for testing Rails apps with Cucumber – Some notes on speeding things up and making effective use of the tool. Gibbler – Git-like hashes, history, reversion for Ruby objects. Wacky. Haml/Sass 2.2 Released – The next step in these popular tools for writing the UI.

Double Shot #489

July 6, 2009 in Double Shot | Tags: accessibility, aegis, babelphish, beet, dry_scaffold, parkaby, rails, ripper2ruby, testing | 1 comment

Had a modestly productive weekend, in between explosions and shrapnel.

babelphish – Automatic YML file translation using Google Translate, for when you just need quick-and-dirty localization. Accessible Rails Apps – Images and Alternative Text – More advice from Brian Hogan. Elements of Testing Style – Noel Rappin has some suggestions on writing better tests. Rails Magazine #3 – The free version is available now. Basics: Why every rails dev should track 404 pages – Some good advice. Parkaby – Faster Markaby-flavored markup language. Beet – Thor-based modular alternative to Rails templates. aegis – Easy-looking role-based permissions for user models. Looks like it doesn’t support multiple roles per user though. Rails admin interface roundup – Sarah Allen looks at ActiveScaffold and alternatives (and settles on Typus). dry_scaffold – A flexible scaffold generator with multiple options. Ripper2Ruby: modify and recompile your Ruby code – New way to parse and generate Ruby with Ruby.

Double Shot #488

July 3, 2009 in Double Shot | Tags: accessibility, activescaffold, by_star, css, modernizr, sitemap, testing, xml | Leave a comment

Lots going on in the Rails repository lately; I smell another release soon. (And no, I don’t have insider information at this point).

Serna Free Open Source XML Editor – Available for Windows, Linux, and OS X. Getting Started with ActiveScaffold – A basic introduction. Testing Practices Interview 7: Mike Gunderloy – Noel Rappin invited me to opine, so I did. by_star – ActiveRecord extension to find objects given date objects or pieces of dates. Supports searching by year, month, week, between, and more. Modernizr – Tool to detect support for HTML 5 and CSS 3 features so you can use them conditionally. Accessible Rails Apps – Rails Links, REST and JavaScript Hidden Forms – Brian Hogan suggests that the Rails team got some things wrong, and shows how to fix them. Rescuing Your Ruby on Rails Projects – Another interview with me, this one in InfoQ. sitemap_generator-plugin – Tool for building Google sitemaps in Rails applications via rake.

Double Shot #487

July 2, 2009 in Double Shot | Tags: haml, launchly, rails, railsbridge, rangetastic, sass | 1 comment

Finally, a few reasonable links for the week. Thanks for sticking around.

rangetastic – Plugin for doing “between” filtering on ActiveRecord dates via named scopes. PragPub – New free PDF magazine from the Prags. Not much here for Rubyists, but hey, it’s free. Launchly – Service to track and monitor feedback on your new web site. They have some free plans for their own launch. 2009 Contest Kickoff – This year’s Rails Rumble dates and details are out. RailsBridge – Things are still cooking over at RailsBridge, so if you want to help create an inclusive and friendly Rails community c’mon by. We just relaunched our main site with a new look. haml_scaffold – Like the built-in Rails scaffolding, but generates haml and sass instead of erb and css.

Double Shot #486

July 1, 2009 in Double Shot | Tags: rails, webbynode | Leave a comment

Starting the new month by sending out a couple of contracts for potential clients to look over. Life could be worse.

6 Reasons to use Webbynode – New video from Rails Envy. Mike Gunderloy’s “Rails Rescue Handbook” – Very Handy! – Thanks, Rails Inside.

Double Shot #485

June 30, 2009 in Double Shot | Tags: lindo, postgresql, testing | 3 comments

Half the year is gone already. How’s your business plan going?

Lindo testing helper gets some love – Gem to make functional/integration testing easier by giving you a command to pop open the response in your default browser. A short memo for configuring postgresql to use password (md5) authentication – I’ve started looking at PostgreSQL for new projects. This came in handy as I work up the learning curve.

Double Shot #484

June 29, 2009 in Double Shot | Tags: bluetrip, mongo, paged_scopes, rails, reporting, scripty, textmate | Leave a comment

Just to clarify for anyone who’s managed to get confused: I am not, after all, working on the Rails 3 In Action book. The project just ended up not being right for me.

MongoMapper, The Rad Mongo Wrapper – Ruby drivers for MongoDB. scripty2 – Alpha release of the next-generation replacement for scriptaculo.us. BlueTrip – Another CSS framework that looks interesting. Bundles Repository Moved & Mirrored – For TextMate bundles, that is. Paged Scopes: A Will_paginate Alternative – Looks interesting, though I’m not feeling the urge to switch myself. Dynamic Reports – Canned reporting engine for Rails. Looks flexible, I’d like to see an example online.

Double Shot #483

June 26, 2009 in Double Shot | Tags: fakeweb, sqlite, vim | Leave a comment

I think I’m looking forward to July.

FakeWeb 1.2.4 – Now including regex matching for URIs, letting you mock the web more flexibly. SQLiteManager – New version of this GUI for SQLite. Vim Basics – Useful when I find myself trapped on a server with an editor I don’t really comprehend.
A Fresh Cup is Mike Gunderloy's software development weblog, covering Ruby on Rails and whatever else I find interesting in the universe of software. I'm a full-time Rails developer and contributor, available for long- or short-term consulting, with solid experience in working as part of a distributed team. If you'd like to hire me, drop me a line. I'm also the author of Rails Rescue Handbook.

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