Ruby, Rails, RSpec, JavaScript, Ubuntu, Mac OS X

Ruby

• Micro-patterns in ruby

Rails

• Nginx and Memcache – a 400% boost!
• Rails two dot oh! video
• Tips for Debugging BackgroundDRB
• Better reporting with Sparklines
• Segregated page cache storage
• How to handle incoming emails in rails RESTfully
• Re-using rails controllers is a good thing

RSpec

• Validating RSS feeds with RSpec

JavaScript

• Event Delegation made easy

Ubuntu

• Setting up rmagick on Ubuntu

Mac OS X

• Why DTrace makes Leopard a must-have upgrade

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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, Rails, Rails Plugins, JavaScript, SEO

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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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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