Alex Gorbatchev

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Rails

Normalising and beautifying Rails templates - in case you are dealing with spaghetti code.
Sending SMS messages from your Rails application.
SSMTP Relay & Mail Delivery in Rails.

Ruby

Superators Add New Operators to Ruby - implement any [...]

dev_mode_performance_fixes plugin by Josh Goebel promises to speed up your Rails development server.
THE PROBLEM
So, what is the problem? It’s the fact that classes aren’t cached in development and that Rails insists on flushing them at the end of every request resulting in large chunks of your apps code having to be loaded, parsed, and [...]

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

Rails

Streamlined 0.9 Release Candidate - Streamlined is a framework on top of Rails that allows you to quickly generate interfaces for your ActiveRecord models (via Mike Gunderloy)

Ruby

Running with Shoes - A Mini GUI Toolkit [...]

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

One eye on the browser, one eye on the console - dumping logs to the console.
Date, Time and old days - add :db and :rfc822 to Date.to_s

Ruby

A Better Way to GUI Ruby Apps.
Compiling [...]

I just finished my first Facebook application called My Facts. Basically, it allows you to post a quick fact on your profile page and find out who of your friends knew it and who didn’t.
Took me a couple of days to figure it out. The Facebook API is pretty amazing. I’m especially impressed by the [...]

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

Rails

.NET Free for 365 Days - Brian Eng, former .NET developer, 1 year later.

Ruby

Https, Ssl and Ruby.
SVK Quick Start - SVK is a distributed version control system. It [...]

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

Rails

nano RAILS: development, testing and hosting tidbits - getting Rails stack to work on Gentoo.

Ruby

Net::SSH 2.0 preview #1.

Web Development

JavaScript interaction must be input device independent - accessibility in mind.
The YUI ImageLoader [...]

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

Rails

Railscast #67 - restful_authentication.
NewGem Generator - now with script/generate - A generator that can provide generators to your projects, so that you can write generators for your other projects.
Testing the Right Stuff - [...]

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Rails

Tutorial on developing a Facebook platform application with Ruby On Rail (part 2).
Don’t use strip_tags, strip_links and sanitize - until Rails 2.0 that is.

Ruby

Ruby and memcached in 5 minutes.

Web Development

How Facebook Applications [...]

I’ve signed up for Facebook today to check out how the whole application development works. Setting up a development server at home which is accessible from Facebook is pretty straight forward.
Here’s what you need:

Facebook account
Local box with Apache
Domain name pointing to your home IP. I use No-Ip.

Here are the steps I took.

Setting up development application [...]