Alex Gorbatchev

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page and for all your Ruby On Rails API documentation needs check out Noobkit.

Rails

Multibutton form - another Railscast.

Software

Aptana on Ubuntu - how to install Aptana on Ubuntu.
Automating Windows applications with Ruby (by [...]

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page and for all your Ruby On Rails API documentation needs check out Noobkit.

Rails

New Database Rake Tasks - more goodies in Rails Edge (by Ryan Daigle)
validates_numericality_of - more options and improvments (by Ryan [...]

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page and for all your Ruby On Rails API documentation needs check out Noobkit.

Rails

Scaling to multiple databases with Rails

Ruby

Playing with blocks : Part 1

Web Development

CommunityOne 2007: G2One - Groovy and Grails pre [...]

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page and for all your Ruby On Rails API documentation needs check out Noobkit.

Ruby

JRuby: Understanding the Fuss (via Juixe)

Software

Possword Generator - an online password generator.
Quality - a talk by Douglas Crockford on history of [...]

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page and for all your Ruby On Rails API documentation needs check out Noobkit.

Rails

has_many_polymorphs - a better version of acts_as_taggable (via zubin8or).
Capistrano Task to Load Production Data (by Peter Harkins)

Ruby

UUID - generate UUID/GUID in [...]

It occurred to me that a good idea would be to add a Google sitemap to Noobkit, especially because it’s using frames. Here’s how I went about it:
In a regular controller I load up all my @packages but instead of a plain sitem_map.rhtml, I have a site_map.rxml file which looks like this:
xml.instruct!
xml.urlset “xmlns” => “http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84″ [...]

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page and for all your Ruby On Rails API documentation needs check out Noobkit.
Web Development

Optimizing Page Load Time.
14 rules for fast web pages (via Jupiter IT)
So Your Co-Worker Isn’t Your Best Friend. Now What? [...]

When storing IP in a database, it’s much better to store them as integers rather than VARCHAR(15). Here’s a handy function to convert an IP string to integer and back.
# Converts an IP string to integer
def ip2int(ip)
return 0 unless ip =~ /d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}/

v = ip.split(’.').collect { |i| i.to_i }
return (v[0] [...]

Another cup of fresh Rails and not so Rails brew. If you’d like to send in a link, please use this page.
Rails

Using Capistrano to Overcome Deployment Hurdles on Dreamhost (by Jason Harrelson)
RailsCasts - tons of short Rails screen casts.
The Secret to Memcached - the easier way to handle cache expiration (via DHH)

JavaScript

Interface Elements for jQuery.

Ruby

RSpec [...]

Last week I saw a post by Rob Sanheim about sucky Rails documentation. I don’t know why, but I got seriously inspired and started playing around with RDoc.
4 hours later, I had RDoc generator importing everything into a database and a few hours later it was completely browse-able.
After that, it’s was all the matter of [...]