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Saying goodbye to pylons
Big changes in frameworks can easily put off users and drive them elsewhere.
pylons  rails  users 
april 2011 by mcroydon
Lowdown
Cuke story editor Rails Rumble project.
bdd  cucumber  development  rails  testing 
december 2010 by mcroydon
A fast, fuzzy, full-text index using Redis | PlayNice.ly
I really love Redis' primitive types and operations on them.
lucene  rails  redis  search  semanticweb  python 
may 2010 by mcroydon
Less Talk, More Code: Usage stats and Redis
A similar approach to how I've seen Hive and other data-warehousing-oriented frameworks solve hit aggregation by date. Using redis no less.
python  blog  rails  stats  messaging  queue  amqp  logging  redis  rabbitmq 
february 2010 by mcroydon
bobby-tables.com: A guide to preventing SQL injection
How to avoid little bobby tables in several languages. There are more subtle attacks but handling the basics right is the first step.
programming  development  database  webdev  howto  computer  rails  hack  security  coding  hacks  fun  databases  geek  hacking  mysql  tips  sql  db  bugs  c#  injection  tables  sqlinjection  sql-injection 
october 2009 by mcroydon
Infomaki
Pretty awesome lightweight usability testing. This would probably be a great tool for getting feedback from early mockups.
software  tools  ruby  opensource  free  rails  statistics  ui  webdesign  usability  architecture  open  source  testing  accessibility  analytics  test  ux  ia  user-experience  infomaki  feedback  ruby_on_rails  nypl 
july 2009 by mcroydon
Cucumber - Making BDD fun
There's a lot of infrastructure here, but it's a compelling way to develop.
programming  design  web  development  code  tools  webdev  ruby  java  rails  dev  architecture  testing  test  agile  flex  rubyonrails  dsl  automation  tdd  stories  bdd  cucumber  rspec  acceptance  userstories  behaviour  driven 
may 2009 by mcroydon
the { buckblogs :here }: Net::SSH, Capistrano, and Saying Goodbye
It's always sad to see projects orphaned like this, but you've gotta do what keeps you sane.
rails  ssh  capistrano  ruby 
february 2009 by mcroydon
Introducing Rack::Cache
"Rack::Cache is a piece of Rack middleware that implements most of RFC 2616’s caching features with a basic set of storage options (disk, heap, and memcached) and a configuration system for tweaking cache policy."
programming  django  web  webdev  ruby  rails  interesting  http  performance  cache  caching  mongrel  proxy  rack  github  rubyonrails  rack::cache 
october 2008 by mcroydon
Panda - Open source video platform
Video uploading, encoding, and streaming with RESTful API? Yes, please.
programming  web  video  ruby  webdev  amazon  rails  api  flash  s3  webdesign  aws  rest  streaming  ec2  encoding  stream  opensource  flv  encode  ffmpeg  transcoding  upload  clean  panda  rubyonrails  merb  uploading  gem 
september 2008 by mcroydon
KirinDave's fuzed at master — GitHub
"This is a release of Powerset's internal clustering software which has been adapted for use with Rails, but see the generic_json_responder to see exactly how it is used internally."
cluster  clustering  code  development  erlang  hosting  open  rails  ruby  scalability  server  software  source  technology  web  webdev  webserver  webapp 
june 2008 by mcroydon
Riding Rails: Rails 2.1: Time zones, dirty, caching, gem dependencies, caching, etc
I'm blown away that Rails is just now getting official timezone support.
rails  time 
june 2008 by mcroydon
Handling Long-Running Tasks in Rails
Nice presentation. Rails-specific but lots of good thoughts are in here.
presentation  rails  ruby  queue  task  management  job  jobs 
may 2008 by mcroydon
Postful
An API for sending snail mail @ $.99 a pop.
api  java  rails  ruby 
february 2008 by mcroydon
Last 100 meters Skinny Request, Fat Backend - Scaling Rails
On tuning Rails in a reverse-proxy environment. It seems harder than it should be.
deployment  dev  development  mongrel  nginx  optimization  performance  rails  rack  ruby  scalability  scaling  todo  toread  webdev 
february 2008 by mcroydon
Others are leaving Ruby on Rails, as well. And it’s not going well.
"At this point, the company is trying to return to their Java-based systems, which worked better than their Ruby on Rails implementation."
rails  ruby  java  programming 
february 2008 by mcroydon
cfis : Rails and Postgresql - Eliminate Hundreds of Thousands of Queries a Day
"It turns out that Rails does cache column data dictionary queries (which is what you would expect), but not for :has_and_belongs_to_many associations (HABTMA)."
habtma  rails  postgresql 
february 2008 by mcroydon
Warehouse — Subversion Browser
A sex rails-based subversion browser.
svn  subversion  rails  ruby  design 
july 2007 by mcroydon
Real world Rails: Caching in Rails
Caching is important, whatever the language.
rails  ruby  web  cache  caching 
may 2007 by mcroydon
Joyeur: Slides for my RailsConf talk: "Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up"
This is quite the awesome deck on scaling anything in general and Rails in particular.
pdf  presentation  rails  scaling 
may 2007 by mcroydon
Scaling Twitter » SlideShare
Nice slide deck on scaling twitter but the same holds true for lots of things (via Simon).
development  presentation  rails  ruby  scaling  scalability  toread  twitter  web 
april 2007 by mcroydon
Don’t Forget to Plant It! » Tails Firefox Extension 0.3
Jeremy Keith just demoed taking an hCard from a webpage and 'toothing it over to his phone. Pretty slick.
app  browser  desktop  development  firefox  ideas  interface  mac  markup  meta  mozilla  rails  software  sxsw  todo  tools  toread  web  web-design  webdev 
march 2007 by mcroydon
caboose bust a cap in dat ass
Capistrano tasks for dealing with memcached. Julia Stiles: "I would never bust a cap in your face"
cap  capistrano  deployment  howto  memcached  rails  ruby 
february 2007 by mcroydon
GeoKit for Rails: home
"Geokit is a Rails plugin for building location-based apps. It provides geocoding, location finders, and distance calculation in one cohesive package."
code  development  documentation  geo  geocaching  geocoder  geocoding  geolocation  geowanking  gis  gmaps  google  google-maps  gps  library  location  map  mapping  maps  plugin  programming  rails  reference  ruby  todo  webdev 
february 2007 by mcroydon
The Pochi Superstar Mega Show! » Projects
Working with geo datatypes (PostGIS, etc) in Ruby.
gis  mapping  maps  mysql  postgresql  postgis  rails  ruby 
january 2007 by mcroydon
WebFaction : Shared hosting plans
Good prices on shared hosting with lots of one click installs.
django  hosting  plone  python  rails  subversion  trac  turbogears  web  webhosting  web-hosting 
december 2006 by mcroydon
Rails OpenID Server in Identity
Code for creating a Rails OpenID provider. This is the same code that is used for Verisign's awesome PIP setup.
identity  openid  plugin  programming  rails  ruby 
december 2006 by mcroydon
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