Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Rails Plugin, JavaScript, OS X

Ruby

• Executing Shell Commands in Ruby
• What is a ruby symbol? – symbols explained

Rails

• 7 Deadly [Rails] Sins, Part 2
• Adding/Removing columns are now much easier
• RailsConf 2007 keynote videos
• Is your Rails app XSS safe?
• Feeds for Free – Microformats your Atom feeds.

RSpec

• Prevent those race conditions in RSpec specs
• Handy dynamic rspec tip

Rails Plugin

• Ext Scaffold Generator Plugin for Rails – can be viewed as a drop-in replacement for Rails’ standard Resource Generator.
• refresh_view – Refreshing Rails Generated Views.
• Click To Globalize – is an extension for Globalize plugin, it allows to edit in place globalized labels. The video tutorial for Click to Globalize is now available in high resolution

JavaScript

• Ext JS and Rails, how do they get along?
• Low Pro Behaviours 101
• Low Pro Behaviours 101: Part 2

OS X

• A black OS X Leopard Terminal theme that is actually readable

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Ruby

• The state of the Lambda in Ruby 1.9

Rails

• RESTful admin Part 3 – the interesting stuff is towards the end to the post. Part 1 and Part 2 of the RESTful admin serious is also a good read.
• PeepCode – RSpec Usr Stories – You can now write plain-text stories that fit into the XP style of development.
• Is your Rails application XSS safe?
• spec_converter released – It converts Test::Unit tests to test/spec style. Check it out!

Rails Plugin

• AttributeFu – makes multi-model forms so easy you’ll be telling all of your friends about it.
• assert_efficient_sql – the assertion intercepts and copies out your MySQL SELECT statements, then calls EXPLAIN on each one, and inspects the results for common problems.

CSS

• 6 Keys to understanding modern CSS-Based layouts

SEO

• Six AdSense optimization tips for forums

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Ruby

• Rails style meta programming in Ruby – Part 1
• Rails style meta programming in Ruby – Part 2
• Ruby 1.9 – Right for you?

Rails

• Learning RSpec (Re-Spec)
• RSpec – Controller specs are a drag
• Why I love RSpec nested example groups
• Multi-search with Ferret, pagination and sorting
• Nice list of Rails and Ruby resources (Tutorials, cheat sheets and more)
• Getting your rails code ready for Ruby 1.9
• Adding crop capabilities to acts_as_attachment

Rails Plugins

• composed_of – plugin to support composed of aggregations in ActiveRecord finder methods

JavaScript

• Add and Remove html elements with JavaScript
• Unobtrusive JavaScript Presentation

SEO

• Some basics of Search Engine Optimization

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Rails Plugins

• browserized_styles – plugin to help with browser compatibility.

CSS

• Iconize text links with CSS
• Creating Sexy stylesheets
• Conditional Statements
• Never hack your CSS files again
• htmlPlayground - very nice interactive html api lookup

SEO

• A visual tour through the basics of social media marketing

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Ruby

• Defining Class Methods

Rails

• Amazon S3, Ruby and Rails slides

Rails Plugins

• acts-as-subscribeable – add email subscriptions to various types of models like blog posts,
  comments, forum threads and more and wanted to have a single model
  handle all of it.

JavaScript

• Seven JavaScript Techniques you should be using today
• Keeping my JavaScript files organized

CSS

• 25 Rounded corner techniques with CSS

Safari

• Safari Web developer tools – Actually, Safari provides advanced debugging tools for web developers. By default, it turns off. Run the command explained in the post to enable the tools.

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Rails

• Presenters & Conductors on Rails

Rails Plugins

• Sakuzaku Rails Rake Tasks Plugin – some really convenient rake tasks for some painfully common Rails tasks.

JavaScript

• Active Support for JavaScript
• LowPro – What’s new?
• Light-weight JavaScript code timer
• Text resize detection with Prototype
• Rules to work by for Unobtrusive JavaScript
• Dependency injection for JavaScript
• Proto.Lazy – do we really need lazy image loading?
• Featured Tutorial – JavaScript Basics
• Scal – Calendar widget for Prototype

SEO

• Do it yourself SEO – part 1
• Do it yourself SEO – part 2

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Ruby, Rails, Rails Plugins, Mac OS X

Ruby

• Five Ruby Addictions
• What is three-equals (===)?
• Accumulators in Ruby

Rails

• Seeing Rails Resources Clearly
• Troubleshoot your rails deployment – Short term problem analysis and resolution
• will_paginate – view testing tutorial
• How will openID change your site?Ruby, Rails, Rails Plugins, Mac OS X
• A fair proxy balancer for Nginx and Mongrel
• How do those ActiveRecord dynamic finders and attributes work?
• Using call stack information at runtime
• PDF generation with Ruby, Rails and HTMLDoc
• Database optimization tips for your Rails Application
• How to find unused code in Rails
• How to view gem documentation
• CruiseControl.rb Growl notifier plugin

Rails Plugins

• Query stats plugin – a Rails plugin for tracking database queries.
• Smooth Migrations – allows database migrations to continue running instead of aborting on failure.
• QueryTrace – is a great Rails plugin for pinpointing where in your Rails application that slow query is running.

Mac OS X

• Rake command completion in the Bash shell

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Ruby

• Time::is – s useful for freezing time at a certain point and executing a block of code.
• Enumerable#sum – Sum the elements of the array.
• Structural Duplication – Taking DRY to the next level

Rails

• Caching makes your brain explode
• The secret to Memcached
• Visualize your Rails model associations
• Setting up multiple asset hosts in rails
• Synching your Amazon S3 asset host using Capistrano
• Security, Security, why the heck – Cheatsheet
• Star Rating System – Using Ajax and CSS
• Mocking and Stubbing in Rails

Rails Plugins

• Email Veracity Plugin – in addition to checking the format, the email domain is checked for MX records.

JavaScript

• prototypers – common mistakes and how to avoid them
• JavaScript Method Overloading – the ability to run different code depending on the number of arguments passed into the same function name.

HTML

• HTML5 Media Support – video and audio tags and scriptability

CSS

• Hip to be square – Are you baffled to find square brackets in other peoples CSS code? If so, you might find this of interest.
• CSS for Programmers – and anyone else who appreciates clean, approachable CSS
• Essential CSS Code – Some pointers on what you should start with in a ready made CSS file that contains some code to make the actual coding of the layout easier.
• CSS Png image fix for IE
• Create an image pre-loader with CSS only
• Fancy form design using CSS

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Ruby

• Hash#diff – helpful for determining the difference between two hashes.
• String#each_char – Yields a single-character string for each character in the string.
• Integer#even – helpful when adding zebra striping to views.
• Enumerable#index_by – Convert an enumerable to a hash.
• Enumerable#group_by – Collect an enumerable into sets, grouped by the result of a block. Is helpful for grouping elements of an Enumerable by an attribute or an arbitrary grouping.
• Synonyms vs Aliases
• Testing private methods in Ruby
• Keyword-based message sending (Ruby compared to Smalltalk and Objective-C)
• A crash course in Ruby
• main.rb – a class factory and dsl for generating command line programs real quick.
• Reading an Excel file with Ruby

Rails

• Ruby on Rails 101 Presentation (pdf) – Very comprehensive and informative
• Use JQuery on Rails
• Map IP address to latitude and longitude part 1 & part 2
• HasFinder - is an extension to ActiveRecord that makes it easier than ever to create custom find and count queries.
• Pagecaching Highly personalized web pages – making rails wicked fast.
• Rails has and belongs to many (habtm) gotcha – solving slow queries
• Using Paypal with Rails

Rails Plugins

• Lessjsroutes – Have you ever wanted to use named routes in your JavaScript?
• model_stubbing – create in-memory versions of models for testing.
• candy – a rails plugin which adds some ruby candy to your app.

Mac OS X

• Installing RMagick on Leopard
• Installing ruby, mysql in Leopard

JavaScript

• ProtoType vs JQuery – Your Momma’s so fat
• Scripteka – Site specializing in Prototype extension libraries and scripts
• Pseudo-custom events in Prototype 1.6
• Lightbox JS – is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page.

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Ruby, JRuby, Rails, Rails Plugins, RSpec, JavaScript, CSS, SEO & Subversion

Ruby

• String#classify – Create a class name from a table name like Rails does for table names to models
• RDDB – RESTful ruby document-oriented database

JRuby

• An introduction to JRuby

Rails

• How to upgrade your RESTful routes to Rails 2.0
• Sending mail with Rails

Rails Plugins

• auto_complete – add auto complete to a input field
• restful_open_id_authentication – provides both OpenID based authentication AND regular restful auth against the local databasej

RSpec

• New RSpec callbacks – before_action & after_action

JavaScript

• Prototype & Scriptaculous – tips #1
• Extend DOM elements with custom methods in Prototype
• Prototype-based context menu solution
• Detect idle state with custom events – the idea is to capture the moment when user has been idle for certain period of time.
• PopBox – an image magnification javascript solution for dynamically moving and resizing images on your web page.

CSS

• Understanding CSS floating
• CSS color generator using images

SEO

• The Website Health Check tool – aims to provide a simple and intuitive interface to seeing if your site has any major SEO issues.

Subversion

• Pretty SVN commit emails

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