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New Ruby Inside Chatroom – Come Visit!

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By Peter Cooper / August 18, 2006

Some readers have checked out the little publicized chatroom that’s always been linked to from Ruby Inside, but it’s been really flaky. Luckily, however, new Web 2.0 startup, Lingr, provide an absolutely amazing, fast, and easy to use chatroom and I’ve set it up for Ruby Inside right away.

Lingr

So without further ado, check out the new Ruby Inside chatroom. Everything is on-topic, but if you want to talk Ruby, all the better. I’ll be on there for the next few hours until I go to sleep tonight. Wow! Thanks to all the people who dropped by.. including, goatsmilk, bricolage, atmos, lazyat0m, THOMAS, jonbaer, DerGuteMoritz, UncleD, PabloC, *** ****, lpjkuytx, jakecutter, cdcarter, cboone, dema, defunkt, and Richard Livsey. Read More

16 Great Ruby Articles and Resources In The $100 Contest So Far

By Peter Cooper / August 18, 2006

Ruby Inside is running a $100 contest for people who write a Ruby or Rails related article, resource post, or tutorial this week. There’s still just over 24 hours left to run so get your entries in quickly if you want a chance at winning the $100. So far there have been 16 entries and they’re all pretty good. But.. there are only two entries for the second prize so far, so if you want some great odds at winning the $15 second prize, link to the contest and let us know about it!

Here are the 16 entries for the top prize so far:

1. Read More

Speed up your Rails database requests with memcached

By Peter Cooper / August 17, 2006

Geoffrey Grosenbach looks at how to use memcached, a fast in-memory caching daemon, from Ruby and Rails to speed up common repeated data operations, including ActiveRecord lookups. He also includes a useful install script and patch for Mac OS X users to make memcached fly on that platform. He also demonstrates the use of the cached_model gem to significantly speed up database reads from Rails applications. Read More

AutoAdmin: Auto-generated admin interface in a Rails plugin

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By Peter Cooper / August 17, 2006

Autoadmin

AutoAdmin is a new plugin for Rails that automatically generates an administration interface for your models. It’s heavily inspired by Django, where meta-data relating to the administration interface is placed directly into the models. This goes directly against David Heinemeier Hansson’s preferences, but might be perfect for your own systems.

Example model code: Read More

class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :store
has_many :payments, :order => ‘payment_date DESC’

def name; first_name + ‘ ‘ + last_name; end

sort_by :last_name
search_by :first_name, :last_name
filter_by :active, :store
default_filter :active => true
list_columns :store, :first_name, :last_name

admin_fieldset do |b|
b.text_field :first_name
b.text_field :last_name
b.select :store
end
admin_child_table ‘Payments’, :payments do |b|
b.static_text :payment_date
b.static_text :amount
end
end

Scruffy: A beautiful graphing toolkit for Ruby

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By Peter Cooper / August 17, 2006

Scruffy

Scruffy is a new graphing toolkit for Ruby developed by Brasten Sager. It’s highly customizable and powerful. You can change the backgrounds, mix different types of graph together, change the graphics used for the points, change the line types, etc. You can also render to different types of output. Brasten presents some code examples at his blog. For demonstration, some is repeated below:

graph = Scruffy::Graph.new
graph.title = "Comparative Agent Performance"
graph.value_formatter = Scruffy::Formatters::Percentage.new(:precision => 0)
graph.add :stacked do |stacked|
stacked.add :bar, ‘Jack’, [30, 60, 49, 29, 100, 120]
stacked.add :bar, ‘Jill’, [120, 240, 0, 100, 140, 20]
stacked.add :bar, ‘Hill’, [10, 10, 90, 20, 40, 10]
end
graph.point_markers = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun']

graph.render(:width => 800, :as => ‘JPG’)

(Thanks to Brasten for fixing my sloppy cut and paste job. Read More

Build a “click heat map” system using Ruby and JavaScript

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By Peter Cooper / August 16, 2006

Heatmap

Heat maps allow you to see where people are clicking on your Web page(s) and while some pay-for, professional systems offer this feature, David Pardo has put together a guide, including Ruby and JavaScript source, of how to create your own from scratch! Read More

Queue ActionMailer e-mails with ar_mailer

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By Peter Cooper / August 16, 2006

ar_mailer is a system that automatically queues outgoing mails from Rails applications (using ActionMailer) by placing them into a special database table, to then be handled by a separate process, ar_sendmail. This could be particularly ideal for systems with mass mailing applications or simply as a method to speed up certain requests in your Rails applications since only a single database write is required rather than waiting for an e-mail to finish sending. Read More

Beast: An open source Rails forum in under 500 lines of code

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By Peter Cooper / August 16, 2006

Beast

Rick Olson and Josh Goebel have teamed up to produce Beast, a lightweight but well styled forum. Rails has sorely been lacking a good, well styled, open source forum, but Beast is great. Check out the demonstration forum or go get the code for yourself. Read More

How to use the Eclipse IDE to develop Ruby applications

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By Peter Cooper / August 15, 2006

Rubyoneclipse

If RADRails doesn’t capture your fancy and you’d rather use regular Eclipse as your Ruby IDE, Tabrez Iqbal has a great walkthrough of setting up Eclipse and using it to develop Ruby applications along with lots of screenshots and useful information. Read More

Top 13 Ruby on Rails Presentations

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By Peter Cooper / August 15, 2006

Grp

Juixe presents a list of 13 top Ruby on Rails presentations that you can watch, listen to, or download. Topics cover pure Rails, Rails vs Python comparisons, software design keynotes, Flex, and Java.
Note: This is one of the first entries in the “Write a post about Ruby and win $100” contest that Ruby Inside is running this week. If you want to get in on the action, learn more, and write an interesting Ruby post on your weblog before this Sunday! Read More

How Rails’ Dynamic Finders Work

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By Peter Cooper / August 14, 2006

Findby

Josh Susser explains exactly how Rails’ dynamic finders work (things like User.find_by_name and User.find_all_by_city). It’s a good introduction to some of the simpler abstractions taking place under the hood in Rails, and is an ideal guide if you’re thinking of creating similar abstractions of your own. Read More

Want to write a Ruby book for a major publisher?

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By Peter Cooper / August 14, 2006

Apress

Authors and technical reviewers required!

Technical publishers Apress are busy working on what be the biggest line of Ruby and Rails books in the industry, and now that I’ve figured out how to self publish a book, my book Beginning Ruby is set to be one of the first to hit the shelves along with Beginning Ruby on Rails, Pro Ruby, and Beginning Ruby on Rails E-Commerce all by other great developers (Jarkko Laine is working on the e-commerce book, for instance).

Keir Thomas, an editor at Apress and responsible for the open-source web development line, has told me they’re looking for even more developers to get involved with their Ruby and Rails related offerings. Read More

Testing Rails: A blog (and book!) about testing and debugging Ruby on Rails

By Peter Cooper / August 13, 2006

Evan Henshaw-Plath (more commonly known as rabble) is in the process of writing a book for O’Reilly about testing and debugging Ruby on Rails applications, and has just launched a companion blog, Testing Rails. The subject of the blog is exactly what the title says, and rabble hopes to post at least one in-depth tutorial relating to Rails and testing each week. The first is Building Tests from Logs – Test Driven Debugging. Read More

Win $100 By Blogging About Ruby or Rails This Week!

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By Peter Cooper / August 11, 2006

100Dollars

It’s Ruby Inside’s first competition! Ruby Inside is desperate for amazing Ruby and Rails content to link to, so let’s get the ball rolling..

Ruby Inside is offering a top prize of $100 for blogging about Ruby or Rails this week. The winner will be drawn at random from all Ruby related blog posts linked to in a comment or trackback made to this very post only. To win, your post must demonstrate something interesting or new about Ruby that Ruby Inside users could find interesting. Any tutorial, insight, cool code example, etc, is eligible.

A single second prize of $15 is offered for just linking to this contest on your blog or forum. Read More

Feedalizer: Easy Webpage to RSS Conversion from Ruby

By Peter Cooper / August 11, 2006

Flizer-1

Feedalizer is a Ruby library that lets you easily scrape Web pages and convert them into RSS feeds. Some demo code that generates a feed: Read More

require “feedalizer”
require “time”

url = “http://sydsvenskan.se/serier/nemi/article101047.ece?context=serie”

feedalize(url) do
feed.title = “Nemi”
feed.about = “…”
feed.description = “Daily Nemi strip scraped from Sydsvenskan”

scrape_items(“option”) do |rss_item, html_element|
rss_item.link = html_element.attributes["value"]
rss_item.date = Time.parse(html_element.innerHTML)
rss_item.title = rss_item.date.strftime(“%Y-%m-%d”)

# This grabs the page for a particular strip and extracts the relevant img element
rss_item.description = grab_page(rss_item.link).search(“//img[@width=748]“)
end

output!
end

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