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ActiveRecord Intervention
Ernie Miller's talk from RailsConf is up online. If you've been curious about the inner workings of ActiveRecord, here's your brain-food!

MotionBundler
If you're using RubyMotion, you've probably run into the situation where a gem you'd really like to use just isn't includable in your project. MotionBundler solves that with a single line of code. Don't try to use gems with C extensions though...

GemConfig
Gem authors - how do you add configuration options to your gem? Yaml? a little dsl? a Hash exposed into the Global namespace? Well check out GemConfig for a nice reusable solution to this problem.

Backbone Nested Attrs
Vicente Mundim recently blogged about a new gem named backbone-nested-attributes. It provides your backbone models with 1-1 and 1-N relations support, as well as Rails-like nested attributes

Lyricfy
I'm sorry. So very, very sorry.

Josh Kemp

Do horses prefer Nike, Adidas, or Rebok? Josh Kemp can tell you. He can also whip up a few domain models and a little bit of CSS into a custom rails app.

For months, Josh has been learning to become a developer and blogging about his journey, down the material he's working on and the hours he's spent doing it. (He's also the guy that inspired us to talk about RTanque a few months back). A lot of people have taken his journey, but few have done it with such visibility and passion.

He launched his resume site last week and gained a little retweet love from the likes of Corey Haines and Uncle Bob Martin - go watch him pound out a horseshoe - dude has a freakin forge in the back of his car?!?!

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Sandi Metz's Rules for Developers
Sandi Metz, author of Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby, has put together some simple rules of thumb regarding class and method composition. Caleb Thompson wrote up a blog article about them over at the Thoughtbot blog.

ProMotion
To make it even easier to build iOS apps in Ruby, Jamon Holmgren created ProMotion, a RubyMotion framework for abstracting the screen and navigation handling in a Ruby-like way. It makes it easy to work with things like UINavigationControllers, UITabBarControllers, and UIViewControllers.

JSON APIs with Rails 4
Emil Soman wrote up a blog article on how to write a tested, documented and versioned JSON API Using Rails 4.

Futuroscope
Josep Jaume Rey of Codegram wrote in to let us know about Futuroscope. It's their implementation of "futures", which let you easily handle processes in the background. You just wrap your long-running code in a block, and retrieve the result when you need it.

Searchlight
The Searchlight gem, which simplifies complex method chains. It works with ActiveRecord and ActionView out of the box. It also lets you set defaults and offers other shortcuts for interacting with Rails forms.

haml-i18n-extractor
This week Shai Rosenfeld released the haml-i18n-extractor gem, which is a command line tool that looks for certain strings in your haml templates that are likely to be internationalized. It replaces those strings with calls to the translate ("t") method, then it creates the proper yaml locale files for you.

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Ruby Security Patches
Ruby 1.9.3-p429 and Ruby 2.0.0-p195 were released, to fix the security issue: Object taint bypassing in DL and Fiddle in Ruby (CVE-2013-2065)

minitest 5.0.0 released
Minitest had a major release with a really important change. MiniTest is now Minitest. Check out all the breacking details in the release notes.

jsonapi.org
jsonapi.org proposes a work-in-progress standard for JSON APIs. See also Nathan Esquenazi's Conforming to jsonapi.org format wiki.

Tagging With ActiveRecord and Postgres
Use PostgreSQL's array feature, along with ActiveRecord 4's array support to implement tagging in your Rails app.

RubyMotion Authentication Tutorial
Luca Tironi has written part one of a tutorial post on using Devise for RubyMotion Authentication which includes an example of using Clay Allsop's Formotion.

CoVim
Can you believe it! Real-time, multi-user collaboration in vim. CoVim is a plugin that makes it possible.

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Expert Ruby on Rails application development

RailsEdge using native json
Rails edge replaces the dependency on the ‘multi_json’ gem with Ruby 1.9’s native json.

JoyBox 1.0
JoyBox is a RubyMotion library for writing games using Cocoa2D and the Box2D physics engine.

ContextValidations
ContextValidations is a gem that allows you to decouple validations from ActiveRecord models.

FormObjects
The Panther Software blog explains how to use the Form Object pattern for a user registration process in Rails.

KidsCodeCamp
KidsCodeCamp is a free day long event for children with interactive classes for kids ages 7 to 16. They will go over Robotics, Information Technology, and even Minecraft, all in an easy to learn setting. It's taking place Sunday, August 25, right after the Madison Ruby conference.

Plataformatec gems
The Plataformatec guys announced a bunch of new gem updates for Rails 4 compatibility. This includes Devise, Simple Form, Show For, Mail Form, has_scope and Responders.

Tabulous 2
The Tabulous 2 gem provides all the functionality you need when using navigation tabs.

Git Real 2
Code School has just released Git Real 2. This is their third git course and it covers topics such as: Interactive Rebase, Stashing, Submodules, recovering lost commits and lost branches, as well as rewriting history. Check it out over on Code School if you want to solidify your git skills.

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warden-github-rails
This new gem allows you to leverage GitHub's organization management features for authorization within your Rails app.

This episode is sponsored by New Relic
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RubyMotion 2.0
RubyMotion Goes 2.0 And Gets OS X Support, Templates and Plugins

Sidekiq Pro Goes 1.0
Sidekiq Pro has gone 1.0 and Mike is giving away a free license to celebrate!

Double-Colon Method Calls
A ruby-core discussion has begun over deprecating `::` as a method call operator

How Ruby Method Dispatch Works
James Coglan explains how Ruby's object system works.

Reform
Ditch nested attributes in your Rails forms today for Reform.

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RailsConf videos on Justin.tv
The RailsConf 2013 live stream videos are being split apart and reposted on the Confreaks Justin.tv channel. So, if you missed the conference, or want to rewatch that talk you liked so much, check it out.

Free Rails 4 training videos posted
If you missed the Ruby Heroes awards at RailsConf, you might not have heard that Code School released their entire set of ten videos from the new Rails 4 course for free, thanks to Viddler.

Ensure mock interfaces with Adequack
Iilya Zayats recently released Adequack, a gem which helps to ensure that your unit test mock interfaces stay up-to-date with your production code. It tests against an expected remote object interface and maintains that your method calls contain the proper number of arguments.

How to Setup a Production Server for Rails 4
If you're looking to setup a new Rails 4 server from scratch, Rob McLarty put together a very detailed blog post covering setting up an OS, users, web server, app server, and more.

Better Single-Table Inheritance
Last week, Nathan Long put his thoughts on a better way to do ActiveRecord Single Table Inheritance, or STI. In short, he believes that your STI (and supporting) tables should map very similarly to how you already likely do inheritance in your Ruby classes.

Phusion Passenger 4.0.1 Final Released
After a lengthy beta and elease candidate process, the good people at Phusion have released Passenger 4.0.1. This updates both the open source and enterprise version of the application server and adds support for multiple Ruby versions, Rack 1.5 and the new socket hijacking API, and more.

Log your ActionMailer with mail-logger
Josh McArthur recently created and released mail-logger, a gem which hooks into the mail gem's callbacks to automatically log out deliveries to a log file which is separate from your application log. This could be useful for auditing your application or just double-checking your mail host.

Jekyll version 1.0 has been released
After roughly a year on hiatus, the Jekyll core team has released Jekyll version 1.0. This new release adds documentation, new subcommands like new, build, serve, and import, draft content, timezone support, and more.

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You should be using NewRelic by now, but do you regularly check out their blog? They have a great series of tech tips for Ruby going on right now, celebrating RailsConf. The most recent one is “Debugging Stuck Ruby Processes – what to do before you kill -9”

There are 7 great articles in the series so far, and more to come!

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Rails 4.0 RC1
Rails 4 release candidate 1 is out! check it out and report any problems. If all goes well, we'll have a final release in 3-4 weeks!

Happiness
As developers, we spend a lot of time optimizing. We optimize our code, our editor, our seatcushions, but in this blog entry, Earnie Miller talks about the most important optimization of all.

RailsGirls SOC

This summer RailsGirls are trying to bring more women into the Rails community. They are currently asking for project submissions.

An ideal project should be simple enough that a beginner could complete in three months or less. But they are hoping to make a valuable and significant contribution to a project.

RailsConf links
Eric Oestrich has been collecting links from the happenings at RailsConf and publishing them on the SmartLogic Solutions blog. We'll feature the first day as the story link, and add the other days as comments on this story.

XRAY-RAILS

XRAY-RAILS is a new development tool that reveals your UI’s bones. it lets you visualize the higher level components of your UI including Controllers, templates, partials and even Backbone views.

It draws shiny red rectangles around the different sections of the page revealing which views or partials generated it. it already supports rails views, partials and backbone views

MAD LIBS

This was a fun story to record. I'm not even going to describe it here so you have to listen to it.

SinglePageApp Book
Mikito Takada has written the book he wishes he had when he started developing single page apps. This is a book to help people understand the concepts and patterns for building single page apps, where most of the functionality is on one javascript-heavy page interacting with the server in the background.

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When to stop mocking
Avdi Grimm released a free screencast on when to stop mocking as part of his Tapas series. Check it out on his blog.

Batch notifications in Rails
A nuts-and-bolts blog post describing how Meldium approached batching their notification emails.

Triggerino, an Arduino based action trigger
Herman Moreno blogged about his Triggerino gem, which lets you hook up an Arduino to a big red button, and have that button trigger any Ruby code.

RVM 2.0 The Plan
The Ruby version manager that started it all is ramping up toward it's next major release. Michal Papis lays out the high-level goals for RVM 2.0.

Nunes
No more letting all those application events go gentle into that good night. John Nunemaker's eponymous gem will ensnare them all and pin them to the wall for your amusement.

Amanda
Amanda is a simple Blog engine powered by Camping. Posts are written in Markdown, saved on Dropbox and stored in Redis.

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Getting Started With Rails 4 on Heroku
Heroku published a guide on deploying Rails 4 to their service, including a pair of gems to make it happen.

Sync - Realtime Rails Partials
This week Chris Mccord released the sync gem which helps you update your view partials in real-time.

Running Bash Commands From Ruby
Ruby gives us several ways of running bash commands from within a Ruby script, as outlined in a blog post by Thai Wood.

Railsconf 2013
Railsconf is next week! 5 Keynote addresses, new product releases, and more. Mike Perham has a list of extracurricular activities happening around the conference.

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