Caffeine Driven Development

• 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”

The first beta of Rails 3 is out! These links are all related to the release:

• Is Rails 3.0 a Game Changer?
• Rails 3.0: Beta release
• Rails 3 Beta is Out — A Retrospective
• The Path to Rails 3: Greenfielding new apps with the Rails 3 beta
• Five Things You Can Do Today to Make Your App Ready For Ruby on Rails 3
• Signed and Permanent cookies in Rails 3
• The Rails Module (in Rails 3), that provides you with the root, env, and logger class methods
• Rails 3.0 Beta: 36 Links and Resources To Get You Going, in which my Rails 3 generator guide is included!
• Is Your Plugin Ready For Rails 3?, also included in the collection above but this is worth highlighting
• Bundle me some Rails, things to keep in mind while using Bundler

Un-related to the release:

• A Note on the Recent Outages, GitHub had three major outages this week – this is why
• Web Translate It, “sync your translations between your Rails app and Web Translate It”
• EventCalendar, “Easily show multiple, overlapping events across calendar days and rows”
• script/migrator for navigating migrations
• Trunks, “simple, developer focused source control at spouse-friendly prices” (and they’re free until they go out of beta!)
• Watch your self, brittle title but the article talks about blocks + instance_eval gotchas
• jQuery 1.4, MooTools 1.2 Compared
• Free Rails 3 upgrade screencast, and it’s live coding!

• Node.js For My Tiny Ruby Brain
• Distributed Ruby with the MagLev VM
• Highcharts, “Interactive JavaScript charts for your web pages”
• Websockets made easy with Cramp
• jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet
• TinyMCE on GitHub, another large project joins the party
• How JavaScript Timers Work, important to know
• Notification Improvements, awesome but about time
• git-goggles, “a git management utilities that allows you to manage your source code as it evolves through its development lifecycle”
• Nested Form, “Rails plugin to conveniently handle multiple models in a single form”
• Churn, “a gem for class and method level churn rates”

• Ruby script for setting up a Rails Edge (3.0.pre) application
• Powerful Color Manipulation with Sass
• Introducing RCapture, “a Ruby library that allows placing hooks on methods using a convenient interface”
• Ruby Net::HTTP cheat sheet, “A collection of Ruby Net::HTTP examples”
• Rspec 2 and Rails 3
• Find By Hash, “Extension to ActiveRecord to allow you to do findy-thingies with hashes”
• fixwidth, “Bookmarklet, wrapping in a 600px centered div. Improves readability on 100% width pages”
• Improved Commit Diffs on GitHub. Absolutely awesome
• How to keep your Vim Plugins up to date
• NXdom, “Short domain name search”
• TipTip, tooltip jQuery plugin

• ActiveModel: Make Any Ruby Object Feel Like ActiveRecord
• HTTP POST with curl
• Hamster, “Efficient, Immutable, Thread-Safe Collection classes for Ruby”
• WEBrick has an Escape Sequence Injection vulnerability
• tracked_plugins, “script/plugin now keeps track of installation, can list urls/revisions/install-dates and update”
• Rails and Merb Merge: Plugin API
• Free memory on Linux: free -m vs /proc/meminfo
• What Are We?, a very interesting talk by Francis Hwang
• Make IE8 Think It’s IE7
• FireQuery, Firebug extension for jQuery development
• MockSMTP.app, “Smart and simple e-mail testing for new apps and websites on Mac OS X”
• TotalFinder, Finder enhancements for power users

Maybe I can get back to publishing this once a day?

• Hanoi, “Automated jQuery tests with QUnit”
• PrimerCSS, “pulls out all of your classes and id’s and places them into a starter stylesheet”
• Cryptic Ruby Global Variables and Their Meanings
• Using google.load() to optimize web page load times

• Slidify, “A lightweight jQuery plugin that transforms input elements into UI Slider controls”
• Carmen, “A simple collection of geographic names and abbreviations for Ruby”
• Safe In Place Editing plugin
• Master May I?, “a simple authorization gem that works hand in hand with Authlogic and InheritedResources”
• URLs in Ruby
• The impact of language choice on github projects
• Enumerable#exclude? added to ActiveSupport, why has no one thought of this before?

• 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