Dion Almaer has a go at implementing a basic Ruby scripting system for Web pages (or, as I call it, “RubyScript”). If you want to play with it, there’s a live demo available here. Despite the slowness of loading the JRuby Java applet behind the scenes, it’s works well once it’s up. Read More
The MOle is a Rails plugin developed by Fernand Galiana, Delynn Berry, and Ara Howard that allows you to monitor events occurring within your application in real time (without resorting to tailing logs). They’ve put together a YouTube! video that demonstrates how MOle works in real time. Read More
RailRoad is a Ruby application that generates model or controller diagrams for Ruby on Rails applications. It analyzes properties, inheritance, model associations, and so forth, and produces a graph description in the DOT language which can then be handled with third-party tools. The official site features several compelling examples, including model and controller maps of the Typo blogging system (as seen above). Read More
Ruby On Windows is a new(ish) blog by David Mullet that focuses on using Ruby on the Windows operating system. I don’t usually announce random blogs on Ruby Inside, but Ruby on Windows is covering a niche that has mostly been unrepresented in the Ruby blogosphere so far but for which there is quite a demand. Read More
Courtenay of the caboo.se has put together a solid “sample Rails application” that enables you to get up and running with a new Rails application quickly.
It includes several useful features out of the box:
You can learn more about the sample app in Courtenay’s first post about it. Even if you don’t find the template directly useful, it’s worth looking at to see how a proficient Rails developer will begin to construct an application from scratch. Read More
(credit: Chance Gardener)
Heard of Capistrano but thought it all sounded too confusing to set up? Brian Eng enters with a great “for dummies” type tutorial, The Absolute Moron’s Guide to Capistrano. (If you don’t know what Capistrano is, at its basic level it’s a Ruby-based application deployment tool, often used for deploying Rails applications to remote servers.) Read More
You can get a Rails powered wiki up and running in minutes if you use something like Instiki, but there’s a very in-depth tutorial to building your own wiki system in Rails from scratch by Anil Hemrajani up at DevX today. Read More
Tim from We Heart Code has written an easy-to-follow, detailed tutorial about scraping data from the Internet Movie Database using Ruby and Hpricot. As I would have suspected, Peter Szinek, developer of ScRUBYt! presents an even simpler solution in the comments. Read More
Jason Gilmore, open source editor at Apress, is looking for a technical reviewer to help out with a book called “Practical Ruby on Rails Projects”. Don’t quote me on this, but I believe it’s a paid role, and one that will garner a nice page and photo in the book (as it did for the technical reviewers on “Beginning Ruby”). Some Rails experience is required, even if it’s just on personal projects.
You can contact Jason directly at jason -/at/- apress.com if you’re interested. To make his life easier, it’d probably be good if you could state who you are, what your Rails experience is, and so forth. Read More
Dave Olsen writes to tell us about a new Rails plugin he’s developed:
The Textile Editor Helper (TEH) is a Javascript-based text formatting toolbar that will be added to all of your text areas that utilize the TEH feature. TEH was developed to provide a more WYSIWYG-ish option for users of our Rails CMS called slate while still letting us use Textile.
You can learn more and play with a demo at the official TEH site. Read More
Cenophobie has created a Ruby Cheatsheet available in PDF and PNG formats. It’s a little old (not out of date) but I hadn’t seen it before and it’s quite good. It only covers the basic, but is a useful reminder of which methods you have at your disposal on the basic classes like Object, String, Array, and Hash. It also includes a list of the special variables, command line arguments, reserved words, expressions, and so forth. Read More
NetBeans developer, Tor Norbye, continues to tease the Ruby community with his series of screenshots showing Ruby (and Rails) support in the latest development builds of NetBeans. This week he announces the release of a “Ruby-only slimmed down version of NetBeans” and shows off some compelling new features such as the ability to run Rake tasks from NetBeans, a database migration tool, and Mongrel support. Read More
Yes, there is now a Ruby Inside job board. First off, sorry! There are a lot of job boards out there, and it’s a saturated market, but.. this job board has a twist. It’s backfilled with lots of great Ruby jobs from all sorts of companies, so even though there are no Ruby Inside specific postings yet, there are already scores of jobs to look through. They tend to be more commercial than those you’ll find at other Ruby job sites, so dive in.
More importantly though, rather than just paying for an ad that lasts a few weeks, the Ruby Inside job board gives you sixty days for $99 and your job will be featured in a unique, permanently archived post here on Ruby Inside. Read More
pantherFotos is a hosting service aimed at amateur and professional photographers, in a similar vein to many of the other photo sites out there. What makes it different, however, is that it was built by Nazar Aziz, a developer who only began to use Rails two months ago, during his daily train commute. The site provides a service where members can upload large and high resolution images which are resized, watermarked and catalogued. Members can then sell their pictures through the site for download by clients. Additional facilities including blogging, tagging, categorization, biography pages, contacts and so on are tools than can be used by photographers to engage with other visitors. Read More
illustration: why, photographer: rooreynolds
Back in February James Edward Gray interviewed Yukihiro Matsumoto (matz, creator of Ruby) and Koichi Sasada (main developer of Ruby 1.9) about YARV / Ruby 1.9 and Ruby’s future. I don’t want to spoil it at all, but there are definitely some interesting points raised. If the future of Ruby interests you, check it out. It comes in two parts so far, 1 and 2. Read More