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stripe/einhorn
6 hours ago by jnunemaker
the lanuage-independent shared socket manager
ruby
socket
networking
railstips
6 hours ago by jnunemaker
Benchmark Your Bundle
19 days ago by jnunemaker
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
Issue 2.7: "Unobtrusive Ruby" in Practice - Practicing Ruby
6 weeks ago by jnunemaker
Some good thoughts on unobtrusive ruby.
railstips
ruby
6 weeks ago by jnunemaker
jbarnette/watchable
10 weeks ago by jnunemaker
A simple event/notification mixin for Ruby.
ruby
railstips
10 weeks ago by jnunemaker
ohler55/oj
10 weeks ago by jnunemaker
Optimized JSON. Supposedly 2x faster than yajl. Impressive. Love the name too.
json
ruby
railstips
10 weeks ago by jnunemaker
bitmonkey - Introducing Metriks
11 weeks ago by jnunemaker
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
january 2012 by jnunemaker
Interesting use of bit sets to determine daily active users.
redis
bitset
analytics
railstips
january 2012 by jnunemaker
Demeter: It’s not just a good idea. It’s the law. | Virtuous Code
july 2011 by jnunemaker
Long but good post on cleaning up your code.
ruby
railstips
july 2011 by jnunemaker
MailCatcher
july 2011 by jnunemaker
Just tried this out tonight. Super handy for doing basic testing of HTML email.
railstips
email
ruby
rails
july 2011 by jnunemaker
robertsosinski/retryable
may 2011 by jnunemaker
Easy to use DSL to retry code if an exception is raised.
ruby
railstips
may 2011 by jnunemaker
josh/rack-mount
april 2011 by jnunemaker
Stackable dynamic tree based Rack router
rack
ruby
railstips
april 2011 by jnunemaker
Rodreegez/powder - GitHub
april 2011 by jnunemaker
Syntactic suger for http://pow.cx/
pow
railstips
rack
april 2011 by jnunemaker
mperham/girl_friday
april 2011 by jnunemaker
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
march 2011 by jnunemaker
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
The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?
march 2011 by jnunemaker
Great post on how to get better or at least how not to get worse.
programming
self-improvement
railstips
march 2011 by jnunemaker
Passing Blocks in Ruby Without &block
february 2011 by jnunemaker
Some tips on passing blocks around in Ruby without a performance hit.
blocks
performance
ruby
railstips
february 2011 by jnunemaker
ddollar/foreman
february 2011 by jnunemaker
Manage Procfile-based applications. Allows exporting to json and upstart.
ruby
processes
railstips
february 2011 by jnunemaker
weppos/whois
february 2011 by jnunemaker
An intelligent pure Ruby WHOIS client and parser
ruby
whois
railstips
february 2011 by jnunemaker
samg/diffy
february 2011 by jnunemaker
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
january 2011 by jnunemaker
"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
january 2011 by jnunemaker
Ruby wrapper for google's phone number normalization stuff.
ruby
phone
numbers
railstips
january 2011 by jnunemaker
envato/safe_shell
january 2011 by jnunemaker
Safely execute shell commands and get their output.
railstips
ruby
shell
january 2011 by jnunemaker
soniciq/iq-color
january 2011 by jnunemaker
Allows converting between rgba and hex css colors.
color
ruby
railstips
january 2011 by jnunemaker
Write Code Like You Just Learned How to Program
december 2010 by jnunemaker
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
december 2010 by jnunemaker
A collection of Ruby Net::HTTP examples.
http
ruby
railstips
december 2010 by jnunemaker
geemus/excon
december 2010 by jnunemaker
EXtended http(s) CONnections. Built on top of ruby's tcp lib.
http
ruby
railstips
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Zombie.js
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Insanely fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js
javascript
testing
railstips
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Hash Tricks
december 2010 by jnunemaker
The use of a hash as a net/http response cache is a neat idea.
ruby
railstips
december 2010 by jnunemaker
TwP/turn
december 2010 by jnunemaker
"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
december 2010 by jnunemaker
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
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Tiny little script that does a lot. Seems interesting.
javascript
railstips
december 2010 by jnunemaker
uber-glory-tmbundle
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Wonderful bundle for textmate that strips whitespace and doesn't have weird behaviors.
textmate
whitespace
bundle
railstips
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Capistrano cowboy deploys
december 2010 by jnunemaker
Deploy like a cowboy!
deployment
ruby
capistrano
railstips
december 2010 by jnunemaker
SSL with Rails
december 2010 by jnunemaker
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
november 2010 by jnunemaker
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
november 2010 by jnunemaker
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
Phusion Passenger 3.0.0 final released
october 2010 by jnunemaker
Passenger 3 is released. Hot.
passenger
rails
deployment
railstips
october 2010 by jnunemaker
Ajax Upload
october 2010 by jnunemaker
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
Auto-detect timezones, time zone offsets and daylight saving in javascript
october 2010 by jnunemaker
Library for working with timezones in JavaScript.
javascript
timezones
railstips
october 2010 by jnunemaker
How to use Rails 3.0's new notification system to inject custom log events
october 2010 by jnunemaker
Interesting gist on how to instrument anything using Rails 3's notifications.
railstips
rails
october 2010 by jnunemaker
moowahaha's despamilator
october 2010 by jnunemaker
"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
october 2010 by jnunemaker
Good intro on building a gem, specifically by using bundler.
bundler
rubygems
railstips
october 2010 by jnunemaker
bblimke's webmock
october 2010 by jnunemaker
"Library for stubbing HTTP requests and setting expectations on HTTP requests in Ruby."
ruby
testing
railstips
october 2010 by jnunemaker
newtwitter performance analysis
september 2010 by jnunemaker
Interesting read on #newtwitter's performance by Steve Souders.
newtwitter
performance
railstips
september 2010 by jnunemaker
Documentation by YARD 0.5.8
september 2010 by jnunemaker
"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
september 2010 by jnunemaker
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
september 2010 by jnunemaker
How to share gemspec and bundler dependencies.
gems
bundler
ruby
railstips
september 2010 by jnunemaker
masuidrive's pr_geohash
september 2010 by jnunemaker
"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
september 2010 by jnunemaker
"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
september 2010 by jnunemaker
"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
september 2010 by jnunemaker
"A collection of useful middleware for exposing information about deployed Rack applications." Cool idea.
rack
middleware
rails
railstips
september 2010 by jnunemaker
Skinny daemons
august 2010 by jnunemaker
How to create skinny daemons (aka tiny, self-contained web apps).
ruby
railstips
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Cinch IRC Bot Framework
august 2010 by jnunemaker
"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
august 2010 by jnunemaker
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
august 2010 by jnunemaker
"Simple IP to lat/long API application using the MaxMind GeoLite database."
geo
geocoding
ruby
railstips
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Smoothie Charts
august 2010 by jnunemaker
"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
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Multi-variate Bayesian classification engine with a nice API and simple persistence.
ruby
classification
railstips
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Detecting Duplicate Images with Phashion
august 2010 by jnunemaker
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
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Shell completion for rvm ruby versions and gemsets. Handy.
railstips
ruby
rvm
bash
august 2010 by jnunemaker
Happy Git Commits
august 2010 by jnunemaker
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
july 2010 by jnunemaker
How am I just now discovering this. Sweet stuff.
ruby
logging
debugging
railstips
july 2010 by jnunemaker
Stashboard: The open source status dashboard
july 2010 by jnunemaker
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
july 2010 by jnunemaker
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
july 2010 by jnunemaker
"Resque "replacement" for use in development and testing". Pretty cool.
ruby
resque
redis
railstips
july 2010 by jnunemaker
intridea's omniauth
june 2010 by jnunemaker
"OmniAuth is a flexible authentication system utilizing Rack middleware."
railstips
authentication
june 2010 by jnunemaker
botanicus's commonjs_require
may 2010 by jnunemaker
This is so interesting. Love the idea.
ruby
nodejs
railstips
may 2010 by jnunemaker
Beanstalk, a Simple and Fast Queueing Backend
may 2010 by jnunemaker
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
may 2010 by jnunemaker
Another great MongoDB post by Kyle Banker.
mongodb
railstips
may 2010 by jnunemaker
delayed_job 2.0
april 2010 by jnunemaker
Collective Idea continues to update delayed job, including MongoMapper in the latest release.
rails
railstips
april 2010 by jnunemaker
Marak's hook.io
april 2010 by jnunemaker
"hook.io - the node.js web hook platform"
nodejs
webhooks
railstips
april 2010 by jnunemaker
Using .gemspecs as Intended
april 2010 by jnunemaker
Some tips for gem management.
ruby
gems
railstips
april 2010 by jnunemaker
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