Caffeine Driven Development

It’s been real quiet in the Rails community the last couple of days, but now I have a few links ready for you:

• A sneaky session gotcha in rails 2.3
• Amp, Mercurial in Ruby, but it’s ambitions goes further than that. Check it out
• zen-coding, “Set of plugins for HTML and CSS hi-speed coding”
• Introduction to MongoDB – Part I, I never took the time to check out MongoDB. I’m impressed
• Scaling Rails – On The Edge – Part 3, awesome screencast from Envy Labs

• 25 Tips for Intermediate Git Users
• Scroll Clock
• Easy ESI, “Cached pages with dynamic partials”
• CanCan, “Simple authorization for Rails”
• Optimizing asset bundling and serving with Rails
• capybara, “webrat alternative which aims to support all browser simulators”

• Metaprogramming in Ruby: It’s All About the Self
• 9 Most Common IE Bugs and How to Fix Them
• Think of emails as views delivered through SMTP
• nested relations in ActiveRecord
• Spy on external HTTP API requests in Rails
• rails_best_practices
• 12 Excellent jQuery Plugins for Enhancing Forms

• Log in or sign up?
• Simply-Buttons v2
• What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like
• Using BETWEEN for SQL comparisons
• Hashie: The Hash Toolkit
• Spam filtering with Defender

• PlainView – Add database views to your Rails applications
• Using the Rubygems Bundler for Your App
• Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript
• Programming Contest! And the Challenge is…Measure Rails Momentum

• Dead simple JavaScript Unit Testing in Rails
• Ninja testing your Rails plugins
• Writing great documentation: what to write and technical style
• When Rails Fails, obviously I complete disagree with what is stated in the article, but read the comments. Ryan Bigg’s in particular

• Scoping by locales
• Timeline widget from SIMILE
• Deploying to Heroku
• You’re An Idiot For Not Using Heroku
• Heroku Asset Packager
• Recent UI updates to GitHub
• 40 Seriously Funny Print Ads

#42! This blog post is the answer to everything! Or not!

• Clarity, a log search tool
• quit pretending, use the web for real: restfulie
• editable image overlay, “a link that overlays your image”
• librelist.com, “a free as in freedom mailing list site for open source projects”

You may already know this, but this is absolutely new to me. Yesterday a question suddenly popped up: “Can you put a class into a class?” I instantly hopped into irb (<3) and did this:

david@david-laptop:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> class Foo
irb(main):002:1>   class Bar
irb(main):003:2>   end
irb(main):004:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):005:0> Foo.new
=> #<Foo:0xb77130b0>
irb(main):006:0> Foo::Bar.new
=> #<Foo::Bar:0xb770f960>

I’ve been wondering if this was possible before, but kind of assumed it wasn’t. But it is, and it’s just another example of Ruby’s awesometasticness. I’ll definitely use this, and I hope it’ll be useful for you too.

So close to #42!

• StupidFilter, comment filtering, not for spam but for stupidity. Obviously I don’t need it on this blog
• Stella, “Blame Stella for breaking your web applications”
• Bluepill: a new process monitoring tool
• no-www Rack Middleware
• Scaling Rails – On The Edge – Part 1, I want to have time to watch this
• The Best Free Fonts of 2009, I’ve said it before and I say it again: We all love free fonts!