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

• Render Options in Rails 3
• Jubilator, an “attempt to make the GitHub repository browsing experience better”
• Ruby Call Center, funny video featuring one of Envy Lab’s client jobs
• Paperboy, “A node.js module for delivering static files”
• The Demise of CSS: Why Sass And Languages Like It Will Triumph
• AridCache, “Automates efficient caching of your ActiveRecord collections”
• Hammertime, “An interactive error console for Ruby”
• Let your SQL Growl in Rails 3
• Navvy, “Simple Ruby background job processor”

The blog posts that link to one of or both of my BugMash articles:

• Rails Bugmash an exciting first experience
• Discovering Rails 3 generators
• Rails Bugmash 2010

These and the people that shared my articles on Twitter has generated a lot of traffic on my blog an won me a few more subscribers as well. Thanks!

• 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”

• Your Pages Will Load Faster with Rails!, so… Rails does scale?
• gimme three steps, something I didn’t know: Factory Girl includes Cucumber steps
• No returns, explicit returns that is
• RConfig, “The complete solution for Ruby Configuration Management”
• Welcome RoboDomain, “keep track of any domain in one single place”
• Announcing The Longest YARD: 0.5.0

It’s been a while, but finally I can present a new bunch of links to you:

• Google Analytics Launches Asynchronous Tracking, it’s about time Analytics don’t slow page load down anymore
• Squad, a web-based collaborative code editor
• Oria, simple Ruby-based key-value store
• Godlike, I would buy a Mac just for this plugin
• Rubyconf in 22 minutes, yet another video from Gregg Pollack
• Introducing FasterScripts.com! Share Your Performance Experiences
• Ruby on Rails laptop sticker, it says it fits on a MacBook but I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t fit on pretty much any laptop

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”

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!

This is just one of the days where it would’ve been really nice to stay in bed with your laptop and a cup of tea.

• Mail, “A Really Ruby Mail Library”
• Where did I put that puts?
• [Launch] The debut episode of the 37signals podcast
• Resque, “A simple Redis-based queue”, introductory blog post
• Hacking someone’s gem with github and gemcutter