337 Posts tagged with ruby
God PollCondition to verify that BackgrounDRb workers are running
Slides from my presentation at ATLRUG last month on God
HAProxy maxconn 1 outperforms Nginx fair by a longshot. Let the load balancing part of your stack handle request queuing, not mongrel. That's not "fair" by any means.
The Rubyist is a technical magazine focused on Ruby, Rails, Merb, and anything else that surrounds the programming language that we all know and love. Ordering my copy now.
ReinH explores the differences between UltraSphinx and ThinkingSphinx, and explains why is awesomer.
A concise and easy-to-use Ruby library that connects ActiveRecord to the Sphinx search daemon, managing configuration and searching.
Jabber::Bot makes it simple to create and command your own Jabber bot with little fuss
Nifty use of Rails' mime-type support to support a 'beta' request format
Ruby gem for parsing and generating xen config files
"RubyGems no longer performs bulk updates and instead only fetches the gemspec files it needs" ZOMG finally!
Lightning-fast keyword search with weighed sorting and community based notes inline with the documentation
Skynet is an open source Ruby implementation of Google‘s MapReduce framework, created at Geni.
More details about MagLev
Holy Shit. *Another* new Ruby VM. By Avi Bryant, of Smalltalk fame. Shared memory cache, transactional capabilities and automatic synchronization.
source at GitHub. powered by Sinatra and iUI
Ditz is a simple, light-weight distributed issue tracker designed to work with distributed version control systems like darcs and git. Ditz maintains an issue database directory on disk, with files written in a line-based and human-editable format.
source at GitHub. powered by Sinatra and iUI
A nice implementation of the Endless Page AJAX Pattern
Slick. I should port FireBot to use EventMachine - right now it's using an awesomely low-tech while loop ;)
Nice clean example of instantiating and then invalidating an NSTimer
ALA Takes on Ruby on Rails with two articles - one from my good friend Dan Benjamin, and another from Michael Slater
RubyCocoa Tutorial updated for Leopard - this time with RSpec BDD action
masquerade is an Rails OpenID server released under the MIT-license
Nice walkthrough of the new Rails TimeZone support
PDoc is an inline comment parser and JavaScript documentation generator written in Ruby. It is designed for documenting Prototype and Prototype-based libraries.
Ruby to Javascript Compiler
mislav's looking for a cleaner way to render an ERB template with a hash of variables. any takers?
RubyFlow is a user-contributed Ruby news and links site.
Nice, clean pattern for 301 redirects
pastiepacker is a command-line tool to 'pack' a selection of files (or by default, a whole recursive folder of files) into a single pastie
config.gem 'GEMNAME' in environment.rb declares a gem as required. `rake gems:install` will then install all required gems.
ActiveRecord now tracks changes to unsaved attributes
RailRoad is a class diagrams generator for Ruby on Rails applications.
CSS/JS asset bundling plugin
a Rails plugin that easily integrates your app with Fire Eagle, by yours truly
Nick Kallen’s wildly popular has_finder plugin was just added to Edge, now called 'named_scope'
Echoe is a simple tool for working with Rubygems. It generates Rake tasks for documentation, extension compiling, testing, packaging, and deployment.
This plugin makes it possible to define has_many :through relationships that go through other has_many :through relationships, possibly through an arbitrarily deep hierarchy
Paperclip is intended as an easy file attachment library for ActiveRecord. The intent behind it was to keep setup as easy as possible and to treat files as much like other attributes as possible.
Pretty Rails.production?, Rails.development?, Rails.test? and Rails.environment methods
John Nunemaker talks about his Statwhore gem
Validate your (X)HTML against the W3C Validator web service from within your functional tests.
Tom Coates said it best yesterday morning at ETech: people have been touting ‘location-aware services’ as the next big thing for years. However, they’ve never taken off.
What’s been holding them back: acquiring reliable location data about users is a hard problem for developers to solve.
With yesterday’s release of Fire Eagle, that problem is now a whole lot easier to solve.
Ride the Fire Eagle Danger Day!
So what is Fire Eagle? It’s not Twitter for location, that’s for damn sure. Here’s how the Yahoo! copywriting wizards describe it:
The secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online while giving you unprecedented control over your data and privacy. We’re here to make the whole web respond to your location and help you to discover more about the world around you.
At the diagram to the left shows, the Fire Eagle platform acts as an broker for your location data. One or many applications can set your location, and, provided you give them access, any other service can access this data.
This is one giant piece in the puzzle for location-based services. Users set their location in one place, and any number of other services are able to then act on this data however they please.
The other piece in the puzzle: a Fire Eagle updater that requires absolutely NO user interaction. If I’m carrying around my iPhone in my pocket all day, why can’t it tell Fire Eagle where I am?
Of course, Erica Sadun has already whipped up an unofficial iPhone app to ping Fire Eagle called firefindme. Installation isn’t the easiest thing in the world – it assumes some launchd skillz to setup automatic updates. However, I’m sure a user friendly iPhone updater is coming very shortly ;).
Developing Location-Aware Applications, Sites and Services with Fire Eagle
I’ve got a full-on tutorial coming detailing how to make your Rails app talk to Fire Eagle, but in the meantime, check out my Fire Eagle Ruby Gem:
sudo gem install fireeagle
If Ruby’s not your bag, don’t worry – there are libraries for working with Fire Eagle in javascript, php, perl and python.
Proof-of-Concept Twitter Bot
Just like last time, I’ve created a proof-of-concept twitter bot for testing out Fire Eagle: firebot.
First off: you need an invite to talk to Fire Eagle right now. Luckily, firebot is handing out a few. follow firebot on Twitter, and then direct message it with ‘invite’
Once you have an invite, direct message firebot with ‘auth’:
firebot will then reply with a link. You’ll need to visit that link, authenticate with your Yahoo! account, and then authorize firebot with Fire Eagle.
Once that’s done, you can update your location with a direct message to firebot like so:
- d firebot u Atlanta, GA
- d firebot u Belize
- d firebot u 30022
- d firebot u 123 Anytown USA
- etc
To look up the location of someone else using firebot:
- d firebot q jnewland
- d firebot q cjmartin
- d firebot q plasticbagUK
Disclaimer
By telling firebot your location, you agree to share your location information with all other users of firebot. All direct messages you send to firebot are stored permanently at Twitter. If at any point you’d like all of your information deleted from firebot, please contact @jnewland.
What’s next?
Get hackin’ on your awesome location-based web app! Extra bonus points if you use the Fire Eagle Rubygem. If you’ve got a great idea for a Fire Eagle app and don’t have an invite, just ask firebot for one!
PS: If you hack up a Fire Eagle javascript sidebar widget that works on pages served as application/xml (preferably using the brilliant wedje technique) AND embraces the draft geo microformat, I’ll buy you a pony. Seriously.
The first Rails app launched by Yahoo!. This is one sick web service
The upstream_fair module sends an incoming request to the least-busy backend server, rather than distributing requests round-robin.
A much cleaner implementation of a pattern I used on a client's site recently.
The latest in a meme I'm calling Boolean Web Services. Someone needs to write a standard for these and craft up a gem to consume them, i.e. BooleanWebService.new(:israilsbroken) => false
RailRoad is a class diagrams generator for Ruby on Rails applications.
@person.try(:name) reads a whole lot better than @person ? @person.name : nil
NullDB is the Null Object pattern as applied to ActiveRecord database adapters. It is a database backend that translates database interactions into no-ops.
Fuzzy Spider Integration Test, inspired by SpiderTest
The Hummingbird. Written by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto himself.
Castanaut lets you write executable [Ruby] scripts for your screencasts. With a simple dictionary of stage directions, you can create complex interactions with a variety of applications.
rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax
Plugin to help populate the development and production databases of Ruby on Rails projects
SMTP server that imports emails sent to it into ActiveRecord
This is a simple module which changes Mongrel's process title to reflect what it's currently doing. You can then determine a given Mongrel server's status using ps
Edge changeset 8664 introduces ActiveSupport::Callbacks. This currently breaks attachment_fu's callback internals and may affect other plugins as well...
A quick & dirty git-powered Sinatra wiki
Database based asynchronously priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify
Adds a simple #search class method that does SQL searching behind the scenes.
Overrides find_one and to_param to use the given attribute
Excludes attributes from serialization methods like to_xml and to_json
small blog engine with XMLRPC, hAtom and S3 upload (through xlmrpc) support hacked up by @kastner
Classy web-development dressed in a DSL
A ruby wrapper for nginx config files
Adds :if and :unless modifiers to before_filters, most ActiveRecord callbacks, and validations.
An XMPP chat plugin for use w/ Rails
Ezra asks the community...
Deep nerd tech with punk rock spirit.
Google Base Class is a base for authenticating to google and making requests to google services.
a plugin called 'workling' that integrates starling into your rails app
Shove this in your bash config
git-rails is a simple tool to help manage your rails app with git
Clever optimizations to Rails Sessions
A huge list of RubyCocoa links. Must get into this more.
Hot new TimeWithZone support in Rails
Dead simple Ruby REST Services with Rack
The Battle For Performance
Version 1 of Peter Cooper's take on the 'Rails Deployment is Hard' problem.
Beast (a Rails forum), as a plugin, for Rails 2.0
Dr. Nic has taken over and updated the Ruby on Rails TextMate bundle.
Fuzed is a project attempting to use YAWS and erlang distribution to replace the conventional many-parts mongrel revproxy solution. Ultimately, the goal of the Fuzed project is to make a system which can easily deploy a rails app onto EC2
Sign up quick - RailsConf sold out in 3 weeks last year
I always have to look this up...
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Provides an additional AR::Errors object, referred to as warnings, to ActiveRecord objects. Useful for noting that objects are valid but not in the desired 'complete' state.
Rails plugin for generating URL slugs. Automatically generates redirects if the field used to generate the slug changes
A web service for handing subscription payments for other web services. Written in Rails. ActiveResource REST API. I think my head just exploded.
Rubular is a Ruby-based regular expression parser. It's a handy way to test regular expressions as you write them.
Transaction::Simple provides active transactional support to Marshal-able objects.
youtube-g is a pure Ruby client for the YouTube GData API.
Finds all files that end in '.erb', runs them through ERB, and outputs the corresponding file without the '.erb' extension, overwriting any old versions of the file(s) that may be present.
Git repos for ambition, attachment_fu, exception_logger, grit, sinatra, starling. Here there be awesome
defunkt is a badass. that is all.
Syntactic sugar for multi-model forms
Syntactic sugar for the form-in-a-partial pattern
To ensure your test cases call efficient MySQL
An advanced mysql query analyzer for rails: runs 'EXPLAIN' before each of your select queries in development and summarizes query warnings.
Starling is a light-weight persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. It was built to drive Twitter's backend, and is in production across Twitter's cluster.
Desert is a component framework for Rails that allows you to seamlessly define Models, Controllers, Views, Helpers, Routes, Migrations, and Plugin Dependencies in your plugins.
Grit is a Ruby library for extracting information from a git repository in and object oriented manner.
ShortURL is a very simple library to use URL shortening services such as RubyURL, urlTea, and TinyURL.
Great intro to acts_as_state_machine
A small enhancement to the very useful Acts As State Machine
SimplyVersioned is a simple, non-invasive, approach to versioning ActiveRecord models
Skynet is an open source Ruby implementation of Google’s Map/Reduce framework, created at Geni.com. With S
