Issue 68 - November 17, 2011
From the Editor's Desk..
Welcome to issue 68 of Ruby Weekly! This week I'm again proud to have Scout, the awesome sys-admin-free hosted server monitoring service, as our sponsor.
Headlines
Dr Nic Williams of Engine Yard has announced that Michal Papis has gotten an Engine Yard Open Source Grant to work as a release manager for the esteemed Ruby Version Manager (RVM).
New Relic, well known in the Ruby and Rails worlds for their application performance monitoring tools, have just tipped over 14,000 active customers and.. raised an extra $15m to continue with their growth plan.
My regular 4 week introduction to Ruby course (for total beginners) starts again on this coming Monday, November 21. Check it out or recommend it to anyone looking to learn Ruby from scratch.
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Articles and Tutorials
We posted about the release of MagLev 1.0, an alternative Ruby implementation, a few weeks ago, but now Werner Schuster presents an info-packaged interview with project leader Monty Williams.
'Man' pages provide a handy way to document command line tools on UNIX-like operating systems including Linux and OS X. In this article, learn how to create man pages for your own Ruby projects.
An extensive article about using ActiveRecord to perform database queries concurrently. Quite a lot of ideas to take away here.
If you haven't had a problem with Ruby 1.9.3 and TextMate, skip this one, but if you have.. there's a way to stop seeing a segmentation fault in Ruby whenever TextMate needs to show off an exception.
Over at RubySource, Nathan Kleyn shares some best practices when it comes to putting together your own Ruby gems.
Screencasts
WindyCityRails 2011 was held in Chicago back in September and the videos are now online. See Dr Nic Williams, Tom Preston Werner, Steve Klabnik, and others at their best. There's also a compilation of lightning talks.
Spree allows you to quickly turn a Rails project into a full eCommerce application. In this episode of RailsCasts, Ryan Bates shows us how to set it up and configure the look and feel of a store.
Libraries and code
Dropbox::API from Future Simple aims to provide the most 'Rubyesque' experience to using the DropBox API. The whole API is covered, it uses the established oauth gem, and it doesn't mess around with core Ruby classes. Sounds good.
The aim of Absurdity is to give you a simple yet feature-rich way of conducting split testing. It offers multiple variants, multiple metrics, and multiple tracks per user.
Consular is the new name for Terminitor, a system that can set up your terminal with numerous running processes based upon a configuration file or short DSL-based Ruby code snippet you produce.
Ruby Jobs of the Week
Last but not least..
See the full MRI Ruby source repository with main identifiers and function names cross referenced between files. One for the MRI code spelunkers only.
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