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Official Ruby Logo Contest – Win a Plate And 100,000 Yen!

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By Peter Cooper / September 3, 2007

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The Ruby Visual Identity Team are on the look out for a new “official” Ruby logo to represent Ruby in a more powerful way online. The team says that while they’ve released the current logo pack, it’s “not well known as a logo that represents the programming language Ruby itself.” To resolve this, the team are looking for a new Ruby logo that can be used to represent Ruby officially, and have launched a contest. The full details of the contest and how to submit your entries are available here.

Unlike the Rails(tm) logo, the team specify that while copyrights are to be assigned to the Ruby Association, the logo will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license. Read More

RM-Install: A new multi-platform, enterprise-level Ruby on Rails stack

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By Peter Cooper / September 3, 2007

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RM-Install is a new, free Ruby on Rails stack developed by FiveRuns, a company that provides enterprise-level management solutions for Ruby on Rails applications. Of course, Rails and Ruby are already available for free, but RM-Install provides you will everything you need in one deployment. The components include Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 1.2.3, MySQL 5.0, SQLite 3.3, Subversion 1.4, Apache 2.2, OpenSSL, ImageMagick, Mongrel (with clustering support), Capistrano, Gruff, Rake and RMagick.

Currently RM-Install is available for OS X (Intel) and Linux only, but versions for OS X (PowerPC) and Windows will follow soon. Perhaps this is the holy grail of getting a Rails development environment up and running (with ImageMagick no less) in minutes? Read More

Superators: Add new operators to Ruby

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By Peter Cooper / August 30, 2007

Superators

I know there’s going to be some controversy around this clever piece of code by Jay Phillips. He’s developed “Superators“, a library that finally makes it easy to create new operators within Ruby that look like line noise. Always wanted a “-~+~-” or “===~-+~++” operator? Now it’s within your grasp! As Aleks Clark says: “Job security and spiffy DSL construction in one neat package.” Read More

Videos from The Ruby Hoedown Now Online

By Peter Cooper / August 28, 2007

Hoedownvids

The Ruby Hoedown was a North Carolina based Ruby conference that took place on August 10-11, 2007. From all accounts, it was a roaring success, and now the videos of the presentations given have been made available. Topics include:

  • Ruby and Rails Testing Techniques by Marcel Molina, Bruce Tate, and Chad Fowler.
  • Exploring Merb by Ezra Zygmuntowicz.
  • Next-Gen VoIP Development with Ruby and Adhearsion by Jay Phillips.
  • Building Games with Ruby by Andrea O.K. Wright.
  • Does Ruby Have a Chasm to Cross? by Ken Auer.
  • Using C to Tune Your Ruby or Rails Application by Jared Richardson.

All this along with some lightning talks and two keynotes by Bruce Tate and Marcel Molina. Read More

MyConfPlan For Sale, All Money Goes To Charity

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By Peter Cooper / August 28, 2007

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You might recall, a few short months ago, that Dr. Nic built and released a site called MyConfPlan. Its prime objective was to enable RailsConf 2007 visitors to easily plan their schedules, although it had support for other events too. Dr. Nic has now put the site up for sale on eBay, and is donating all of the proceeds to charity as part of his pledge to donate to charity for RailsConf Europe. The auction ends in the next couple of days and is already at $470 Australian dollars (about $42 $386 US Dollars). Read More

Seesaw: An Improved Restart System for Mongrel

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By Peter Cooper / August 25, 2007

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Most Rails developers will be familiar with *** ****’s Mongrel, a great HTTP library used by most Rails developers to either test or deploy their applications (it’s also pretty great for building your own basic HTTP handlers too, but I digress).
Sometimes when restarting applications after code updates, some requests can be “lost” in the whole process, particularly in high-traffic environments. Seesaw, developed by Max Muermann and Matt Allen, however, resolves this problem by restarting your mongrel processes one by one so that availability is ensured. Seesaw is available as a gem (gem install seesaw), although this blog post is essential reading to learn about integration with Nginx and Apache. Read More

More “Ruby on Rails Versus” Videos

By Peter Cooper / August 25, 2007

Remember the infamous “Ruby on Rails Vs” videos by the guys at RailsEnvy.com that were such a hit at RailsConf? Well they’re back with two more..

Rails vs .Net

Rails vs PHP Redux

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Free Ruby Lessons From Monday, 27th August

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By Peter Cooper / August 25, 2007

Back in August 2006, Satish Talim began a course of free Ruby lessons. Over 100 people signed up and found them useful. The success of the program even led to Satish founding the RubyLearning.com site, a great Ruby resource for newcomers to the language. Satish has just let me know that he’s decided to run the course again this year, so if you’re a Ruby newbie, head over to Satish’s latest blog post where he explains what the lessons are, what you’ll get out of it, and how the system works. Lessons start from this coming Monday, 27th August. Read More

Scoring Your Code’s Complexity With “Flog”

By Peter Cooper / August 24, 2007

Flog

Flog is a new and interesting tool that runs an “ABC metric” (measurement of the complexity of your assignments, branches, and calls) on your code and scores it accordingly. A high score will generally occur for complex code, and vice versa. Read More

“Pro ActiveRecord” Book Ready To Pre-Order

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By Peter Cooper / August 22, 2007

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Pro ActiveRecord (previously known as “Pro ActiveRecord for Ruby”) by Kevin Marshall, Chad Pytel, and Jon Yurek is an advanced-level book about using the ORM database library used primarily by Ruby on Rails. To be published on September 10, 2007, the book is now ready to pre-order from Amazon.com for $26.39 (non affiliate link) and runs at 300 pages, so it’s likely to be a reasonably complete reference to using the library whether with Rails or not. Read More

Rails Rumble: 48 Hour Rails Coding Competition

By Peter Cooper / August 20, 2007

Railsrumble

In a similar vein to Rails Day comes the Rails Rumble, a 48 hour Ruby on Rails competition. You spend 48 hours developing a cool new Web application, and then all of the apps are judged through a peer-based ranking system in a variety of categories. The fun starts on September 8-9 and registration opens soon at RailsRumble.com. Sponsors include O’Reilly, ActiveReload, Apress, Peepcode, Linode, ActiveState, Pragmatic Programmers, Cashboard, Ruby East, Engine Yard, RoundHaus, and ThoughtBot, so be prepared for some great prizes. Linode is even putting up a VPS for every entrant to deploy their app.

With the extra time allowed and the peer-reviewing process, it seems like Rails Rumble could progress more smoothly than the Rails Days of past, and Ruby Inside will feature more information about the contest and the winners as things progress. Read More

Yelp API for Ruby

By Peter Cooper / August 19, 2007

Yelp

Yelp.com is a site that lets people review bars, clubs, shops, and nightlife in various US cities. Yelp only began to offer an API a few weeks ago and Walter Korman wasted no time in releasing a client library for Ruby. It’s called, simply, “yelp” and lets you directly use Yelp.com’s data from your apps. You can do cool things like search for business reviews, locate business reviews by business phone number, and search for neighborhoods by geo-points or address/location. Read More

How To Scrape Google With Ruby In 0 Seconds

By Peter Cooper / August 19, 2007

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Okay, his title is a bit misleading, but Peter Szinek, developer of Ruby scraping toolkit scRUBYt!, has put together a great article showing the process, from start to finish, of scraping Google results using Ruby “in no seconds”. In reality, it’ll take you at least sixty to read the post. Read More

A Taxonomy of Rails Plugins

By Peter Cooper / August 17, 2007

Alex Young, a UK-based Rails developer, has put together a great guide that looks at the different development patterns used in Rails plugins and helps you develop well-designed plugins of your own. Read More

The Ruby Hit Squad Releases Capistrano Competitor “Vlad The Deployer”

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By Peter Cooper / August 17, 2007

Vlad

The Ruby Hit Squad is a crack team of Ruby developers – formed of Ryan Davis, Eric Hodel, Wilson Bilkovich, and Shaners Becker – devoted to eliminating “needless complexity.” Its first product, Vlad the Deployer, is a Capistrano competitor, designed to provide a fast, uncomplicated remote application deployment tool, but without the supposed complexity Capistrano offers. This is a top team of developers, and this is a big first splash, so check it out because it’s bound to become popular in the Ruby world. Read More

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