Scout
march 2008 by al3x
Monitoring and reporting with a Ruby/Rails bent. Not yet launched.
ruby
rails
monitoring
march 2008 by al3x
CruiseControl Progress Charts
march 2008 by al3x
"CruiseControl.rb is an elegant Continuous Integration dashboard for Ruby projects. This article shows how to call the RoR command “rake stats” once per build, capture the results, and chart them to track trends over time."
rails
ruby
testing
continuousIntegration
visualization
march 2008 by al3x
9 Essential Rails Tips
march 2008 by al3x
I'm pretty tired of lists of tips, but these are good.
rails
tip
list
optimization
activerecord
march 2008 by al3x
Skinny Request, Fat Backend - Scaling Rails
february 2008 by al3x
Some great advice. This is going to be Best Practice in the Rails world inside of the next six months.
rails
rack
thin
mongrel
merb
nginx
scaling
february 2008 by al3x
Rails || Merb
february 2008 by al3x
A list of equivalencies between Rails and Merb.
comparison
merb
rails
tip
february 2008 by al3x
query-reviewer
january 2008 by al3x
"This rails plugin not only runs "EXPLAIN" before each of your select queries in development, but provides a small DIV in the rendered output of each page with the summary of query warnings that it analyzed."
rails
database
optimization
plugin
january 2008 by al3x
skynet
january 2008 by al3x
"an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s Map/Reduce framework". Includes some Rails helpers, etc.
ruby
rails
concurrency
january 2008 by al3x
Async Observer
december 2007 by al3x
A very elegant way of performing asynchronous tasks from Rails. Certainly easier than writing a daemon... something to consider for Starling.
rails
ruby
asynchronous
distributed
plugin
december 2007 by al3x
Backgroundjob
december 2007 by al3x
"a simple to use background priority queue for Rails"
rails
plugin
december 2007 by al3x
jRails - jQuery on Rails
november 2007 by al3x
" a drop-in jQuery replacement for Prototype/script.aculo.us on Rails. Using jRails, you can get all of the same default Rails helpers for javascript functionality using the lighter jQuery library."
jquery
rails
plugin
javascript
november 2007 by al3x
Jester
october 2007 by al3x
a JavaScript client for REST APIs that uses Rails conventions
javascript
rails
rest
october 2007 by al3x
ec2-on-rails
october 2007 by al3x
This project builds an Ubuntu Linux server image for Amazon’s EC2 hosting service that’s ready to run a standard Ruby on Rails application with little or no customization.
aws
ec2
rails
linux
ubuntu
deployment
october 2007 by al3x
HasFinder
september 2007 by al3x
"It's Now Easier than ever to create complex, re-usable SQL queries"
activerecord
rails
plugin
sql
september 2007 by al3x
acts_as_solr : search and faceting
august 2007 by al3x
Would've been nice to have this overview a couple weeks ago.
rails
search
solr
tutorial
august 2007 by al3x
Testing Various Configurations of Rails, Merb, Swiftiply, and Nginx
august 2007 by al3x
Nginx: fast. Merb: fast, faster with events. Rails: faster with events, but not fast. Sessions go in memcache.
mongrel
nginx
rails
performance
benchmark
merb
august 2007 by al3x
An Attachment Walked Into A Bar. Was That U, Fu?
august 2007 by al3x
Extending and testing attachment_fu
rails
plugin
tip
august 2007 by al3x
Making Rails Better - Content Negotiation
august 2007 by al3x
A more DRY approach to the vile respond_to blocks that litter everyone's code now.
rails
mime
refactor
august 2007 by al3x
Making Rails Go Vroom
july 2007 by al3x
Some quality tips in here. Not the usual bullshit.
rails
performance
profiling
optimization
july 2007 by al3x
A Quick Overview of Basic CoreData Concepts
june 2007 by al3x
"In Rails (and Ruby in general), it's accepted and actually encouraged to use language tricks to reduce the total number of lines of code."
objective-c
cocoa
coredata
rails
june 2007 by al3x
Textile Editor Helper (TEH)
april 2007 by al3x
yes yes have wanted for ages
textile
rails
plugin
cms
april 2007 by al3x
Grails vs Rails Benchmark
march 2007 by al3x
Sad but true.
rails
java
performance
benchmark
comparison
framework
march 2007 by al3x
AssetPackager
march 2007 by al3x
JavaScript and CSS Asset Compression for Production Rails Apps
rails
optimization
javascript
css
compression
march 2007 by al3x
Ruby on Rails Caching Tutorial - Part 2
march 2007 by al3x
action caching, fragment caching, etc. good for the basics.
rails
caching
optimization
tutorial
march 2007 by al3x
File Upload Fu
march 2007 by al3x
Mike Clark on Rick Olsen's rewritten acts_as_attachment. Totally beat me to the S3 storage backend.
rails
plugin
s3
upload
howto
march 2007 by al3x
The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications
february 2007 by al3x
a Rails-centric approach to OpenID implementation
openid
identity
rails
howto
february 2007 by al3x
OpenID for a rails app
february 2007 by al3x
a nice variation on restful_authentication
rails
openid
authentication
february 2007 by al3x
bust a cap in dat ass
february 2007 by al3x
nice cap tasks for working with memcachced
rails
memcached
capistrano
february 2007 by al3x
Railisms (core/stdlib extensions in Ruby on Rails)
january 2007 by al3x
I try to explain to Rails nubys that Rails isn't just a framework, it's a set of extensions to the Ruby language.
ruby
rails
programming
january 2007 by al3x
Don't make a new one on my account
january 2007 by al3x
A simple way to tell Rails controllers not to create new sessions.
rails
performance
sessions
january 2007 by al3x
Watching ActiveRecord Do Its Thing
january 2007 by al3x
arbitrary logging in Rails
rails
log
tip
activerecord
january 2007 by al3x
validates_date_time
december 2006 by al3x
stricter date and time checking with ActiveRecord
rails
plugin
date
time
validation
december 2006 by al3x
Rails Security Checklist
november 2006 by al3x
nice to see someone else talking about Rails security
rails
security
tip
november 2006 by al3x
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