Caffeine Driven Development

Running a website costs money which is why I’ve added some slots for Google AdSense ads on this blog and in its feed, namely at the bottom of every blog post, near the top of the sidebar on every page, and at the bottom of each feed item. They’re fairly small and colored similarly to the rest of the blog to make them as discrete as possible. Thanks for your understanding!

• Tilt, “Generic interface to multiple Ruby template engines”
• Frank, “Frank lets you build static sites using your favorite libs, painlessly”
• Rails 3: Let ActiveRecord Manage Your Translations
• Testing Facebook
• Jasmine for JavaScript Testing: It’s Screw.Unit++
• Put your mailer where the action is!, no, by “action” he does not necessarily mean controller action
• Ambitious Query Indexer, “Pain-free indexing to speed up your Rails app”
• Rapid prototyping with HAML, SASS and Ruby
• BlueGreenDeployment, clever
• Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn’t-Scalable Lie
• validates_timeliness, “Date and time validation plugin for Rails 2.x and allows custom date/time formats”
• Breakneck, simple gem for serving static files on your development machine
• Performance Tuning for Phusion Passenger
• A quick RVM rundown
• 47 Amazing CSS3 Animation Demos
• SEOChecker, “check your website if it is seo”
• Jasmine, “DOM-less simple JavaScript testing framework” from Pivotal Labs
• The Ruby Standard Wiki, online version of the Ruby ISO standard draft
• #gemsday, “Share your favorite new RubyGems weekly”
• Rubex, “A simple copy cat of Rubular” – the real version has supposedly been acting up lately
• Write Fewer Regular Expressions, yay
• lambda { foo }.should run_in(1.second), useful RSpec matcher from Ryan Bigg

• MongoTips, another blog by John Nunemaker
• Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook, I bought it and it was money well spent. Yours for $12
• HolyGrail, “execute browser-less, console-based, javascript + DOM code right from within your Rails test suite”
• XRefresh, “browser refresh automation for web developers”
• Beware of XHTML, a true eyeopener. You should read it!
• Rails 3 Generators: The Old Faithful
• Building Real-time web apps with Rails3
• Stubbing :new Considered Harmful
• Rails, Slashdotted: no problem
• Avoiding Rails 3 Dependency Hell With RVM
• Smooth Devoperations: Deploying Rails 3 with Moonshine
• Complex Nested Forms with Rails and Unobtrusive jQuery
• EZ-CSS
• RubyGems.org move complete, after several months of hard work
• Use a 503 for your Rails maintenance page

• The Evolution of a Ruby Programmer, very funny
• Gem in a Box, “Really simple rubygem hosting”
• Writing contingent Ruby code with #retryable, take a look at my comment at the bottom, too
• Ripple, “You Got your Riak in my Ruby”
• Alter Table Rails Plugin, very neat – should be part of Rails core
• Getting familiar with Rails 3
• jQuery with Rails 3, why is Prototype even still the default in Rails?
• Easy version management for Rails apps using VersionMaster and Capistrano, nice
• aruba, “Cucumber steps for driving out command line applications”
• The Power and Philosophy of Ruby, slides from talk by Matz
• AbstractQueryFactoryFactories and alias_method_chain: The Ruby Way
• wtfjs, “a collection of those very special irregularities, inconstancies and just plain painfully unintuitive moments for the language of the web”
• Vim Tips for Ruby (and your wrists), pure gold as I’m learning Vim at the moment
• Refraction, “Rack middleware replacement for mod_rewrite”
• Rails Metrics: know what is happening inside your Rails 3 application, there’s a screencast!
• How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit
• JavaScript: The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language
• Building Real-time web apps with Rails3
• Improved validations in Rails 3
• A Hint of Hubris
• Ketchup, “Tasty jQuery Form Validation”

• Monitoring Delayed Job with Bluepill and Capistrano
• Let Them Code Cake!, what a great idea! (No, seriously)
• Git 1.6.6.2, upgrade time!
• Bundler Schmundler
• Aliasing a method vs. defining a new one calling the old one – What’s fastest?, the code and results of the benchmark I did yesterday
• Rake task for deploying to Heroku, neat
• José Valim and Carl Lerche joins Rails core, not surprising at all
• Congratulations, great post by Ryan Bigg demonstrating how you benefit from “doing things right”
• Contacts, “A universal interface to import email contacts from various providers”
• Uniform, style checkboxes, drop down menus, radio buttons, and file upload inputs with jQuery
• Sexp for Rubyists, watch the video – it’s very cool
• How to make an RSS feed in Rails, which is in fact exactly what the article is not about
• Ruby Quicktips, “short, interesting and practical tidbits of the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails framework”

• Babushka, test-driven deployment
• Just In Time, Not Just In Case, words of wisdom
• Essential Rails Extras
• iPhone Style Checkboxes, “Turn your checkboxes into iPhone-style binary switches”
• There is no magic, there is only awesome (Part 4)
• The Ruby Show, a relaunch of the Rails Envy podcast
• The Path to Rails 3: Approaching the upgrade
• New ActionMailer API in Rails 3.0
• The Mysterious Pseudo Class in CSS
• Dirty Associations, “allows you to track changes made to your model’s associations”
• Correct, Beautiful, Fast (In That Order), interesting

A bit late today, but here you go:

• serialized_attributes, “brings some document-oriented behavior into ActiveRecord”
• Understanding M17n, on character encodings in Ruby 1.9
• Secure Passwords sans SSL
• Validation Scopes, “Create independent sets of validations with the full power of ActiveRecord’s validation macros”
• Weary, “A little DSL for consuming RESTful web services”
• Jekyll on Heroku
• Pimp your $PS1 with source control information
• Importing Legacy Data in Rails
• ResqueMailer, “Rails plugin for sending asynchronous email with ActionMailer and Resque”
• Roll your own pagination links with will_paginate
• The Next BugMash event – January 16th-17th, 2010, mark your calenders for this alternative BugMash event!

• Ruby on Rails Tutorial, freely available, up-to-date, online book providing a thorough introduction to Ruby on Rails
• rake-compiler, “Provide a standard and simplified way to build and package Ruby C extensions using Rake as glue.”
• Speedy, “Painless Rapid Rails Deployment with Apache and ModRails”
• jQuery ‘Tab Slide Out’ Plugin

• Experiment Driven Development for Rails
• Ruby Draft Specification, Ruby is becoming an ISO standard
• Ruby 1.9.1-p376 is released
• middleman, A static site generator utilizing Haml, Sass and providing YUI compression and cache busting
• Production Rails Tuning with Passenger: PassengerMaxProcesses

• 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

• The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing
• Rails deployment made easy with Inploy
• 35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins
• System Administrator Interview Cheat Sheet
• The Power of Names
• ModPorter – Painless file uploads
• The Compleat Rubyist