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Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #15
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 04, 2008
Fixing Ruby & Rails’ slow performance with patches!Gleb Arshinov has put together an information packed post about how to speed up Ruby’s garbage collector, particularly to speed up Rails applications, as well as how to speed up Rails by applying a few interesting monkey patches. This is a compelling must read for performance junkies!The Guerilla’s Guide to Optimizing Rails...
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Installing rspec with Braid
via Piku's Blog by Piku on February 04, 2008
Braid is a tool made by Cristi Balan and is a simple tool to help track vendor branches across different SCMs.It was originally named giston, and was providing functionality similar to piston for git. Braid, however, will work with most SCMs as both source and host.Warning, Braid is still under development and may change in the future.To start you need to get and install, on a linux like my...
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Episode 91: Refactoring Long Methods
via Railscasts by Ryan Bates on February 04, 2008
In this episode I walk you through an exercise in refactoring by taking a long method and making it more concise.
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Attending acts_as_conference - Feb 8-9, 2008
via Miles to go ... by arungupta on February 04, 2008
... San Francisco Bay Area this time of the year :)Venue is right in front of Universal Orlando Resort, so you can let your family enjoy while you deep dive in RailsAnd you can of course come and talk to us at Sun booth about howNetBeans andGlassFish together provides a complete, easy-to-use and robust development and deployment environment. Technorati:confacts_asrubyonrailsglassfishnetbeans
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Introduction to XMPP and XMPP4R for Ruby Developers
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 03, 2008
As Wikipedia says, XMPP is “an open, XML-inspired protocol for near-real-time, extensible instant messaging and presence information.” It’s used by Jabber, the Gizmo Project, Google Talk, Pidgin, Kopete, and all sorts of open source instant messaging applications. It can also be used by any applications you want to develop yourself to pass messages back and forth, for example.XMPP support...
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SwitchPipe: My New Rapid and Easy Way To Deploy Web Apps
via Ruby Inside by Peter Cooper on February 04, 2008
It’s not very often I get to announce my own work here, but SwitchPipe is a new project I’ve been working on since my “No True mod_ruby Is Damaging Ruby’s Viability On The Web” post. It was Ruby Inside’s most commented-on post yet and inspired a lot of discussion about the state of deploying Ruby apps online, and got me to thinking about how to build something to achieve ultra-easy...
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mephisto 0.8 is out!
via caboose - blog.caboo.se Home by Courtenay on February 03, 2008
Everyone’s favorite blogging software has reached another milestone: 0.8 (Drax).It hasn’t hit the wires yet, but 0.8 is a welcome release from a codebase that hasn’t seen a release for over six months.The team (i.e., Rick) have moved away from developing with subversion to use git. While they still maintain and update the subversion repository as before, you people on the leading edge of...
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Merb: Multiple CSS files, one server request.
via Just In Time by Justin Pease on January 18, 2008
... side of things.I was happy to see that Merb also allows us to follow Souder's #1 Rule for making the client side snappy too. So how does Merb allow us to make fewer HTTP requests? By dynamically combining multiple stylesheet or script files into one.Let's see some code!It's this simple:# app/views/layout/application.html.erb<% require_css :reset %><% require_css :master %><%= i...
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South Bay Ruby Meetup Trip Report
via Miles to go ... by arungupta on January 31, 2008
As mentionedearlier, I presented on "Rails powered by GlassFish & jMaki" atSouth Bay Ruby Meetup yesterday. The slides are availablehere.The demos showed in the talk are listed below: screencast #web9 - Create standalone and shared WARs that can be deployed on GlassFish GlassFish v3 gem - Create a simple Rails app and run it using GlassFish gem instead of WEBrick or Mongrel screencast #web8 -...
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Segregated page cache storage
via has_many :through by Josh Susser on January 31, 2008
Page-caching is one of the highest leverage features in Rails. It doesn't take much to set up, and the payoff is huge. When building Teldra I knew from the start that page caching would be part of my production deployment, as it should be for any site with pages where content changes infrequently relative to number of views.The only thing I find annoying about using the page caching feature...
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