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Ruby Rogues 041 - Code Metrics

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:30:34 +0000

This week the Ruby Rogues welcome their guest Rogue, Bryan Helmkamp, to discuss code metrics, what that is, and tools and services to derive and report that data in a number of useful (and some scary) ways.

Things I learned from functional programming

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:16:26 +0000

http://sokolmichael.heroku.com/blog/2012/01/31/things-to-learn-from-functional-programming/

Emerging Trends in Ruby on Rails Development in 2012

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:24:14 +0000

In this post, a few Ruby on Rails developers and experts share their trend predictions in Ruby on Rails development in 2012.

Mongoid::Token - Short snappy tokens for Mongoid documents

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:47:44 +0000

I have just completed version 1.0.0 of Mongoid::Token - a little library for generating short, unique tokens for your mongoid documents. Great for keeping your URLs nice and short.

Designing Rails API using Rabl and Devise

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:19:06 +0000

Enabling RESTful API access for Rails application is easy. However, the complexity arises when some responses are expected in xml format and JSON format. Complexity increases manyfold when these API calls need authentication. Sethu explains how to use Rabl and Devise for designing your API access.

Newman 0.2.0 Released!

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:58:53 +0000

For the last week or so, I've been trying to build a framework which does for email what Sinatra/Rack have done for web application development. It's not nearly production ready, but Newman now has good documentation of its implementation, and I'd love to hear what people think of it. I could really use some help, since email is not something I'm an expert on.

DCI Role Injection in Ruby

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:03:02 +0000

Many people have been wondering the proper way to inject Roles into Data objects with DCI. I tackle this topic in DCI Role Injection in Ruby.

'Working With Unix Processes' eBook update

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:31:31 +0000

I just launched a big update to Working With Unix Processes, an eBook addressing Unix programming specifically for Ruby developers. The book was released back in December but it never got a mention here on Rubyflow. To mark the release the book is selling for 25% off today only.

The update includes ~20 pages of new content covering stuff like zombie processes, preforking servers, and environment variables. You can read a sample chapter on Daemon Processes.

New Virtus Release With Truly Awesome Features

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:19:21 +0000

I'm happy to announce that I've released Virtus 0.2.0 with nice new features. You can learn more here.

Triggering the DCI Context

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:25:07 +0000

In continuing the discussion of DCI, I've written a bit about what purpose the Context serves. It's not just a new junk drawer to use extend with objects and modules.