Alex Gorbatchev

In my current Silverlight project the amount of JavaScript is growing exponentially. Everything that I took for granted in Flash which took years to build and “perfect” now needed to be converted to JavaScript.
For the first beta release which is looming next week, the amount is about 130k. “Compressing” it with JSMin yields a file [...]

It’s nice to do some Ruby once in a while. Lately I’ve been involved in a Silverlight project and haven’t touched Ruby in 2 months (hence the lack of activity on my Ruby blog). However, I’m making a build script in Ruby.
I have run into a weird exception when using my favorite IO gem RIO [...]

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Rails

Rails 2.0: Release Candidate 2
Attachment_fu updated!
Installing Mingle with Capistrano/Deprec
RSpec and Inline RJS
Master/Slave Databases with Ruby on Rails

Ruby

Measuring your test coverage with Heckle and RCov
How To Start Playing With [...]

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Rails

Fixtures in Rails 2.0 - new Railscast.
Plugin: create better urls with has_wfid.
Sexy Chart - The video.
Create Builder Applications Using Cheri.

Ruby

Optimising Symbol#to_proc.
Ramaze: Another Light Ruby Web Framework, But With MVC!.

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Rails

Super fast IP to lat/lng in Rails (part 2)
Generate Named Routes - new Railscast.
iPhone subdomains with Rails.

Ruby

Backing up MySQL and Subversion with Ruby.
Getting Started with the wxRuby GUI Toolkit.
NetBeans Ruby IDE 6.0 Beta 2 [...]

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Rails

Avoid exception_notification message floods.
Rails Edge - making fixtures easier.
Showing off data on a timeline - using the amazing Timeline DHTML component in Rails.
Simplify your ActionMailer configuration with YAML.

Web Development

Ruby in Rails in Leopard.
Evidence Based [...]

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Rails

Plain Text RSpec Stories on Rails.
Story Runner in Plain English.
In-browser editor for RSpec stories.
A Ruby on Rails OpenID Server.

Software

The 3 Rules of Self-Marketing.

I looked all over and couldn’t find a bash script which could check and if missing install a list of gems. I had to hack my own up:
GEMS=( `cat gems.txt` ) # gems.txt has one gem name per line

for gem in “${GEMS[@]}”; do
found=`gem list $gem | grep -i $gem`
if [ "$found" [...]

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GUI edition

Shoes - a lightweight Ruby interface to Windows, Linux and OSX applications. Best for small utilities. (into one, two and three by Juxie)
Cheri::Swing - a full blow JRuby builder style interface to Java’s [...]

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Rails

Ruby 101: Naming Conventions.
Zero to Riding the Rails in Four Months.
Default Order Plugin - order_by :fields => ['last_name', 'first_name'], :mode => :desc

Ruby

Mailtrap - dummy SMTP server for testing your emails.
New netbeans update from [...]