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stripe/einhorn
the lanuage-independent shared socket manager
ruby  socket  networking  railstips 
6 hours ago by jnunemaker
Benchmark Your Bundle
Interesting piece of code that shows the time it takes bundler to require each of your dependencies.
benchmark  bundler  rails  ruby  railstips 
19 days ago by jnunemaker
jbarnette/watchable
A simple event/notification mixin for Ruby.
ruby  railstips 
10 weeks ago by jnunemaker
ohler55/oj
Optimized JSON. Supposedly 2x faster than yajl. Impressive. Love the name too.
json  ruby  railstips 
10 weeks ago by jnunemaker
bitmonkey - Introducing Metriks
New metrics library from Eric Lindvall. Allows you to measure anything, store it in memory, and flush it to external services. Very cool.
metrics  ruby  railstips 
11 weeks ago by jnunemaker
Fast, easy, realtime metrics using Redis bitmaps
Interesting use of bit sets to determine daily active users.
redis  bitset  analytics  railstips 
january 2012 by jnunemaker
MailCatcher
Just tried this out tonight. Super handy for doing basic testing of HTML email.
railstips  email  ruby  rails 
july 2011 by jnunemaker
grosser/url_store
Data securely stored in urls.
ruby  urls  railstips 
may 2011 by jnunemaker
robertsosinski/retryable
Easy to use DSL to retry code if an exception is raised.
ruby  railstips 
may 2011 by jnunemaker
josh/rack-mount
Stackable dynamic tree based Rack router
rack  ruby  railstips 
april 2011 by jnunemaker
mperham/girl_friday
girl_friday is a Ruby library for performing asynchronous tasks. Often times you don't want to block a web response by performing some task, like sending an email, so you can just use this gem to perform it in the background. It works with any Ruby application, including Rails 3 applications.
ruby  rails  railstips 
april 2011 by jnunemaker
juliocesar/rack-pagespeed
Cool idea. Uses rack and ruby to do several of the things that google's mod_pagespeed does.
google  pagespeed  performance  ruby  railstips 
march 2011 by jnunemaker
Passing Blocks in Ruby Without &block
Some tips on passing blocks around in Ruby without a performance hit.
blocks  performance  ruby  railstips 
february 2011 by jnunemaker
ddollar/foreman
Manage Procfile-based applications. Allows exporting to json and upstart.
ruby  processes  railstips 
february 2011 by jnunemaker
weppos/whois
An intelligent pure Ruby WHOIS client and parser
ruby  whois  railstips 
february 2011 by jnunemaker
samg/diffy
provides a convenient way to generate a diff from two strings or files
ruby  diff  text  railstips 
february 2011 by jnunemaker
Riot - Ruby Testing Framework
"Riot is a fast, expressive, and contextual ruby unit testing framework." My first thought was why, this is stupid, but after reading the docs, color me intrigued. Definitely give it a look.
testing  ruby  railstips 
january 2011 by jnunemaker
libphonenumber-ruby
Ruby wrapper for google's phone number normalization stuff.
ruby  phone  numbers  railstips 
january 2011 by jnunemaker
envato/safe_shell
Safely execute shell commands and get their output.
railstips  ruby  shell 
january 2011 by jnunemaker
soniciq/iq-color
Allows converting between rgba and hex css colors.
color  ruby  railstips 
january 2011 by jnunemaker
Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program
It's extremely difficult to be simultaneously concerned with the end-user experience of whatever it is that you're building and the architecture of the program that delivers that experience. Maybe impossible.
programming  railstips 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
augustl/net-http-cheat-sheet
A collection of Ruby Net::HTTP examples.
http  ruby  railstips 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
geemus/excon
EXtended http(s) CONnections. Built on top of ruby's tcp lib.
http  ruby  railstips 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Zombie.js
Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js
javascript  testing  railstips 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Gash
Gash lets you access a Git-repo as a Hash.
gash  git  ruby  railstips 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Hash Tricks
The use of a hash as a net/http response cache is a neat idea.
ruby  railstips 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
TwP/turn
"A new look and feel for Test::Unit output -- Test::Unit Reporter (New)." Pretty slick!
testing  ruby  railstips 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
MacRuby: The Definitive Guide
MacRuby book online and updated as it is being written. Neat.
macruby  railstips 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Head JS :: The only script in your HEAD
Tiny little script that does a lot. Seems interesting.
javascript  railstips 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
uber-glory-tmbundle
Wonderful bundle for textmate that strips whitespace and doesn't have weird behaviors.
textmate  whitespace  bundle  railstips 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
SSL with Rails
Great post on how to integrate ssl with rails in the age of firesheep.
railstips  rails  ssl 
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Shopify's path to Rails 3
Great read on updating a huge rails app to rails 3. Loved the difference in aesthetics of the routing files.
railstips  rails3  rails 
november 2010 by jnunemaker
sdsykes's fastimage
Interesting project that downloads the minimal amount needed to get info about an image on the net somewhere.
image  net  http  ruby  railstips 
november 2010 by jnunemaker
Ajax Upload
File upload script that provides allows you to show progress bar in latest FF, Safari and Chrome. Does not use flash.
javascript  railstips 
october 2010 by jnunemaker
How to use Rails 3.0's new notification system to inject custom log events
Interesting gist on how to instrument anything using Rails 3's notifications.
railstips  rails 
october 2010 by jnunemaker
moowahaha's despamilator
"spam detection in text, made specifically for web forms" Very interesting idea, though it means that you have to get better at spam protection yourself instead of passing that off to a company who does spam as its only service.
ruby  spam  railstips 
october 2010 by jnunemaker
gem development with bundler
Good intro on building a gem, specifically by using bundler.
bundler  rubygems  railstips 
october 2010 by jnunemaker
bblimke's webmock
"Library for stubbing HTTP requests and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby."
ruby  testing  railstips 
october 2010 by jnunemaker
newtwitter performance analysis
Interesting read on #newtwitter's performance by Steve Souders.
newtwitter  performance  railstips 
september 2010 by jnunemaker
Documentation by YARD 0.5.8
"Dragonfly is a Rack framework for on-the-fly image handling in Ruby." Seems interesting. I definitely feel that on the fly image resizing is the way to go, but I'm not convinced dragonfly is the answer.
rack  ruby  railstips 
september 2010 by jnunemaker
Making Posterous faster with Varnish
How posterous is using varnish to speed things up. Timely as I'll be looking into varnish soon for Harmony.
varnish  posterous  caching  railstips 
september 2010 by jnunemaker
Bundler for gem development
How to share gemspec and bundler dependencies.
gems  bundler  ruby  railstips 
september 2010 by jnunemaker
masuidrive's pr_geohash
"GeoHash encode/decode library for pure Ruby." Had not heard of geohash but it seems cool.
ruby  railstips  geohash  geo 
september 2010 by jnunemaker
Cached Commons
"Cached Commons is a collection of user-contributed javascript libraries that have been cached, optimized, and hosted on Github’s fast CDN."
javascript  github  railstips 
september 2010 by jnunemaker
Anemone - Ruby Web-Spider Framework
"Anemone is a Ruby library that makes it quick and painless to write programs that spider a website. It provides a simple DSL for performing actions on every page of a site, skipping certain URLs, and calculating the shortest path to a given page on a site." This sounds really cool.
ruby  railstips 
september 2010 by jnunemaker
Ops Middleware
"A collection of useful middleware for exposing information about deployed Rack applications." Cool idea.
rack  middleware  rails  railstips 
september 2010 by jnunemaker
Skinny daemons
How to create skinny daemons (aka tiny, self-contained web apps).
ruby  railstips 
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Cinch IRC Bot Framework
"Cinch is an IRC Bot Building Framework for quickly creating IRC bots in Ruby with minimal effort. It provides a simple interface based on plugins and rules. It's as easy as creating a plugin, defining a rule, and watching your profits flourish." Looks really nice.
irc  railstips 
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Github File Finder
Really cool project. Allows you to browse github projects all in the browser. No need to clone. Slick.
github  railstips 
august 2010 by jnunemaker
topfunky's sinatra-geoip
"Simple IP to lat/long API application using the MaxMind GeoLite database."
geo  geocoding  ruby  railstips 
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Smoothie Charts
"Smoothie Charts is a really small charting library designed for live streaming data. I built it to reduce the headaches I was getting from watching charts jerkily updating every second." Cool idea. Wish I had a reason to play with this.
charts  javascript  canvas  railstips 
august 2010 by jnunemaker
bayes_motel – Bayesian classification for Ruby
Multi-variate Bayesian classification engine with a nice API and simple persistence.
ruby  classification  railstips 
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Detecting Duplicate Images with Phashion
Ruby wrapper that uses an algorithm to detect duplicate media such as images. Pretty darn cool.
ruby  railstips 
august 2010 by jnunemaker
colszowka's rvm-completion
Shell completion for rvm ruby versions and gemsets. Handy.
railstips  ruby  rvm  bash 
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Happy Git Commits
Brandon posts on how they are using happy git commits at Collective Idea. Love it.
git  railstips 
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Quick and Easy Logging with LogBuddy
How am I just now discovering this. Sweet stuff.
ruby  logging  debugging  railstips 
july 2010 by jnunemaker
Stashboard: The open source status dashboard
Open source app that allows you to create a service dashboard like amazon, twitter, etc. Deploys to google app engine.
appengine  railstips 
july 2010 by jnunemaker
Notes on Redis: Data Modeling, Hashes, and Namespaces
This article is a few months old, but I have read it more than once now. Great intro to redis and the ruby libraries that work with it.
ruby  redis  railstips 
july 2010 by jnunemaker
jacobat's fake-resque
"Resque "replacement" for use in development and testing". Pretty cool.
ruby  resque  redis  railstips 
july 2010 by jnunemaker
intridea's omniauth
"OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware."
railstips  authentication 
june 2010 by jnunemaker
botanicus's commonjs_require
This is so interesting. Love the idea.
ruby  nodejs  railstips 
may 2010 by jnunemaker
Mongoose
MongoDB on Node.js. Hot!
nodejs  mongodb  railstips 
may 2010 by jnunemaker
Beanstalk, a Simple and Fast Queueing Backend
Interesting post by Adam about Beanstalk. I remember checking it out back in the day but the lack of persistence scared me away. Sounds like this is not an issue anymore.
ruby  railstips 
may 2010 by jnunemaker
MongoDB and E-commerce
Another great MongoDB post by Kyle Banker.
mongodb  railstips 
may 2010 by jnunemaker
delayed_job 2.0
Collective Idea continues to update delayed job, including MongoMapper in the latest release.
rails  railstips 
april 2010 by jnunemaker
Marak's hook.io
"hook.io - the node.js web hook platform"
nodejs  webhooks  railstips 
april 2010 by jnunemaker
mikel's mail
"A Really Ruby Mail Library"
ruby  mail  railstips 
april 2010 by jnunemaker
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