For the first beta release which is looming next week, the amount is about 130k. “Compressing” it with JSMin yields a file of 75kb in size. Yesterday I tried YUI Compressor which managed to squeeze it down to 65kb.

I’m very happy I no longer have to look at JSMin code which induces gag reflex and makes my eyes bleed. The amount of effort and self restraint it took not to rewrite it can not be described in words.

I have run into a weird exception when using my favorite IO gem RIO (btw, Noobkit page got beaten with the ugly stick and parser needs a spanking).

Exception occur when calling rio(...).rmtree or rio(...).mkpath or rio(...).mkdir. It reads as follows: “wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)”. I know for a fact that these methods don’t take any arguments, but just for kicks, passing a single random argument results in an ironic “wrong number of arguments (1 for 0)”.

Basically the problem came down to the fact that RIO doesn’t like Rake. I can live without Rake, but not without RIO.

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 Ruby 1.9 Right Now!
• Ruby DSL Blocks: A Common Pattern For Developing DSL
• RDDB: RESTful Ruby Document-Oriented Database
• Sinatra: Classy web-development dressed in a DSL
• RubyInject - a Mac OS X framework that allows you to inject at runtime the Ruby interpreter into any running application.
• RubyGems 0.9.5

Web Development

• Amazon S3 POST Support

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!.

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 - my Ruby/Rails IDE of choice turns another version.
• An introduction to RDoc.

Web Development

• Gospel of the GUID - Answers to your Burning Questions, Comments and Insults.

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 Scheduling in FogBugz 6.0

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.

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" != "" ]; then
    parts=( $found )
    echo “Found ${parts[0]} ${parts[1]}”
    continue
  fi

  echo “—————————”
  echo “Installing $gem”
  sudo gem install $gem -y
  echo “—————————”
done

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 Swing.
• Ruby-GNOME2 - bindings for the GNOME 2.0 development environment.
• WxRuby - allows writing native-looking desktop applications for Windows, OS X, Linux GTK and other platforms. Probably the most complete GUI package.
• FXRuby - provides an interface to the FOX GUI library.
• RubyCocoa - OSX bindings for Ruby.
• VisualuRuby - Windows bindings for Ruby.
• Linux GUI Programming with Ruby - a short video demonstrating Glade based Linux GUI with Ruby.

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 Oct 12th.

Web Development

• The Perfect Fluid Width Layout