whoops, wasn't on Wired, it was Slate

"At DailyMuses, we depend heavily on Backbone and concurrent routers call for a single page in order to have a better way to organize our codebase. Since I am coming from the Rails background, when I first tried to tackle this problem, I immediately thought of the way how Rails handles multiple routes with config/routes.rb. Hence, I created Backbone Routes.

With Backbone Routes, you will have a central place to control all your routing logic for your Backbone app."

"JSON Builder
Rails provides an excellent XML Builder by default to build RSS and ATOM feeds, but nothing to help you build complex and custom JSON data structures. The standard to_json works just fine, but can get very verbose when you need full control of what is generated and performance is a factor. JSON Builder hopes to solve that problem.

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Addy Osmani covers three different scripts with different degrees of GitHub backing up fu.

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"Could the combo of Capybara and Capybara Webkit act as a replacement for Mechanize?

The answer? Yes. At least for what I need. They both use Nokogiri underneath so the parsing should be pretty similar.

Without further ado I present a simple script demonstrating how to write a command line screen scraper using capybara. This sample script can be run from the terminal and will perform a google search."

"However, as far as I'm aware, this is about the only way out there to fairly easily scrape a javascript powered website."

small shop out of nyc

"Last week saw the release of three new WADL frameworks:"

examples of flickr wrapper libs in ruby

"FriendlyId is the "Swiss Army bulldozer" of slugging and permalink plugins for Ruby on Rails. It allows you to create pretty URL's and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for Active Record models.<br />
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Using FriendlyId, it's easy to make your application use URL's like:<br />
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http://example.com/states/washington<br />
instead of:<br />
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http://example.com/states/4323454"

"Nestful is a simple Ruby HTTP/REST client with a sane API."

"Awesome Print is Ruby library that pretty prints Ruby objects in full color exposing their internal structure with proper indentation. Rails ActiveRecord objects and usage within Rails templates are supported via included mixins."

the business part of heroku's cli

Slick presentations

"Hackety Hack will teach you the absolute basics of programming from the ground up. No previous programming experience is needed!<br />
With Hackety Hack, you'll learn the Ruby programming language"

"a Ruby-based regular expression editor."

Uses RVM to install Rails 3.0

"RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily install, manage and work with multiple ruby environments from interpreters to sets of gems."

"Watir, pronounced water, is an open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers. It allows you to write tests that are easy to read and maintain. It is simple and flexible. Watir drives browsers the same way people do. It clicks links, fills in forms, presses buttons. Watir also checks results, such as whether expected text appears on the page. Watir is a family of Ruby libraries but it supports your app no matter what technology it is developed in. They support Internet Explorer on Windows, Firefox and Chrome on Windows, Mac and Linux and Safari on Mac."

"Grackle is a lightweight Ruby wrapper around the Twitter REST and Search APIs. It’s based on my experience using the Twitter API to build cheaptweet.com. The main goal of Grackle is to never require a release when the Twitter API changes (which it often does) or in the face of a particular Twitter API bug. As such it’s somewhat different from other Twitter API libraries. It doesn’t try to hide the Twitter "methods" under an access layer nor does it introduce concrete classes for the various objects returned by Twitter. Instead, calls to the Grackle client map directly to Twitter API URLs. The objects returned by API calls are generated as OpenStructs on the fly and make no assumptions about the presence or absence of any particular attributes. Taking this approach means that changes to URLs used by Twitter, parameters required by those URLs or return values will not require a new release. It will potentially require, however, some modifications to your code that uses Grackle."

"Testing code that talks to the Twitter Streaming API is hard. The are 8 documented failure HTTP response codes, random disconnections, and second-to-second rate changes. And, since this is Twitter we’re talking about, basically anything can happen at any time – including complete downtime. So, let me introduce you to mockingbird. Mockingbird is a simple streaming HTTP server written in Ruby that you can use in place of the server at stream.twitter.com when you’re testing your Streaming API code. With mockingbird, all it takes is a few lines of code and you can simulate all the issues I described above and more."

"codepad is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool. Paste your code below, and codepad will run it and give you a short URL you can use to share it in chat or email."

nice howto for beginners, demystifies the OAuth process with code examples.

uses oauth and ruby templates

"A Fast, Enjoyable HTML Parser for Ruby… a very flexible HTML parser, based on Tanaka Akira’s HTree and John Resig’s jQuery, but with the scanner recoded in C."

text replacement utility for linux

proxy your Highrise contacts as LDAP entries (proof of concept, source avail)

The (gs) Grid-Service's on-demand scalability means you'll always be ready for intense bursts of traffic and the growing audience resulting from your online success.

playing with both Sass and Haml

CMS is overrated. A lot of the time, clients want us to do what we do best - well designed pages with structured, accessible and maintainable markup & styling. CMSs are often sufficient for this, but sometimes they can be restrictive and more cumbersome t

a markup language that’s used to cleanly and simply describe the XHTML of any web document without the use of inline code. Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ASP, and ERB, the templating language used in most

"a list of the best Rails resources the Web has to offer"

pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=09