Gee Fu: #ruby #rails #bioinformatics

"Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress All of that is already taken care of. Simply clone or fork Octopress, install dependencies and the theme, and you’re set."

RT @caniszczyk: want to hear about @twitter moving from Rails to the JVM? see @raffi's keynote at #oscon

Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through Textile or Markdown and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host your project’s page or blog right here from GitHub.

Nanoc3 blog starter kit

RT @railsconf: RailsConf registration is open. See the initial lineup of tutorials, sessions & speakers #ruby #rails

ORM for key-value data stores

ass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.

Rails Dispatch - Library Management with #Rails 3: #code #ruby #rails3 #bundler #gems

Simple on-ramp to Ruby. RT @hackernewsbot Want to learn programming?

boom lets you access text snippets over your command line. I'm personally aiming for exactly two use cases, but I'm almost positive there are thirteen more. Here's a couple examples:

Your own del.icio.us-esque URL tracker. When I make clever animated gifs of my coworkers, I tend to lose the URL, which is a total bummer since I want to repeatedly repost these images well past their funny expiration date. boom lets me easily access the good stuff for years to come.
Commonly-used email replies. Everyone's got those stock replies in their pocket for a few common use cases. Rather than keep some files strewn about with the responses, boom gives me them on my ever-present command line.
Simple todos. You can super-quickly drop items into lists and remove them when finished. I'm a big fan of simple, straightforward stuff. Plus, it's a Dropbox away from simple cloud syncing. Someone get Cultured Code on the line THIS MAY BE RELEVANT TO THEIR INTERESTS!
We store everything in one JSON file in your home directory: ~/.boom. The structure is simple, too. Each individual item is tossed on a list, and you can have multiple lists.

RailsAdmin is a Rails 3 engine that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing your data

addressable is a must have gem if you care about standard compliant uri parsing/canonicalization #ruby

Really happy to see the @Redmine project continuing to succeed: #programming #ruby #git #organized

ShowOff is a Sinatra web app that reads simple configuration files for a presentation. It is sort of like a Keynote web app engine - think S5 + Slidedown. I am using it to do all my talks in 2010, because I have a deep hatred in my heart for Keynote and yet it is by far the best in the field.

The idea is that you setup your markdown slide files in section subdirectories and then startup the showoff server in that directory. It will read in your showoff.json file for which sections go in which order and then will give you a URL to present from.

Rails Wizard is a web-based wizard to walk you through the first steps of creating a Rails application.

Is anyone using Cinderella on their mac? #dev
"Cinderella is a fully managed development environment for open source hacking on Mac OSX. It's powered by rvm, homebrew and chef. You only need Xcode to get started.

Cinderella builds everything up in ~/Developer. It won't stomp on any of your current installations so you don't have to commit your entire machine immediately. It's simple to rollback if you really want to."

Rainbows! is an HTTP server for sleepy Rack applications. It is based on Unicorn, but designed to handle applications that expect long request/response times and/or slow clients.

Metaprogramming Ruby is a well-written, must-read book. #ruby

fork of 'Simple Ruby client library for twitter streaming API. Uses EventMachine for connection handling. Adheres to twitter's reconnection guideline.'

Email validation in Rails3 without regexp @ #rails #ruby

rails 3

Two great slide decks on schema design, #riak, and #ruby from @seancribbs and @schofield

Place this script in a folder full of pictures, run it, and it will organize the pictures into folders by the day they were taken.

RT @RailsConf InfoWorld: #Ruby on Rails 3.0 moves nearer release (hopefully during #RailsConf) #opensource

Stalker: job queueing DSL for beanstalkd /via @JEG2

Sends events from the Chirp preview of the user stream api to growl. It shows
retweets, favorites, un-favorites and follows by you or anyone you follow.

Phat: a new type of Rails app

"remodel is meant as a direct replacement for ActiveRecord using Redis and offers familiar syntax (has_many, belongs_to ...) to build your domain model in ruby."

Prawn is a pure Ruby PDF generation library that aims to make low level PDF generation tasks easy. It is currently under active development, and could be considered somewhere between alpha and beta quality software.

Easy Google App Engine’s URLFetch service jruby library
Overview
Easy access to Google’s App Engine URLFetch Service. You need something like this if you want to use NET:HTTP things, cause NET:HTTP is NOT supported by GAE.

I finally posted the video from my CSS metaframework talk at @dallasruby last week: #sass #lesscss #ruby #design

transcripts of railscasts

We have Rails 3.0.pre and Rails 2.3.5 running on App Engine. Rubygems has been disabled, but we use gem bundler to package gems. We are also using DataMapper instead of ActiveRecord. There are some issues with both these options, but we expect they will be resolved shortly. Special thanks to Yehuda Katz and Sasaki Takeru for making this happen!

See the Rails 2 Primer for more information.

Blacklight is a free and open source ruby-on-rails based discovery interface (a.k.a. “next-generation catalog”) especially optimized for heterogeneous collections. You can use it as a library catalog, as a front end for a digital repository, or as a single-search interface to aggregate digital content that would otherwise be siloed. (uses solr)

Lightweight Ruby library for the Twitter API that supports both Basic and OAuth authentication

Description: Some scripts for doing stuff with Twitter. Kind of a grab-bag of things I think are useful

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