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Ruby Weekly
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Issue 15
November 11, 2010
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| Welcome to issue 15 of Ruby Weekly. Thanks for your responses on my "JavaScript Weekly" idea last week. They were surprisingly positive and so, tada, it now exists - javascriptweekly.com. The first issue goes out tomorrow (Friday)! |
| I've also had several e-mails from people wanting to access archives of Ruby Weekly. Work is in progress to do this and hopefully there'll be a permanent "Archives" link in this newsletter from next week onward. |
This week's top news
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Programming Ruby (Pickaxe) Updated and On Sale
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The Pragmatic Programmers have been hard at work and have today unveiled an updated version of Programming Ruby (a.k.a. the "Pickaxe")
that covers Ruby 1.9.2. For a limited time, it's on sale too - $10 for either the paper or e-book version or $20 for both. A steal! (And I'm not even making any commission on it ;-))
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Practicing Ruby: A Practical Ruby Newsletter
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Ruby "mendicant" Gregory Brown has launched a pay-for newsletter ($5/mo) dedicated to challenging your Ruby knowledge. Twice a month,
Greg will dig deep into one area of Ruby, issue challenges, and ignite some discussion.
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This week's top articles
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ActiveRecord::Relation Screencast
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Ryan Bates presents an all new RailsCast that digs deep into the actual Rails 3 source code to look at how the new ActiveRecord querying methods work.
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Debugging Ruby Tools
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It's a bit patchy but Jonathan Wallace has put together some basic notes from watching an Engine Yard webinar about debugging Ruby systems. He links to some tools you could find useful in the debugging process.
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Interesting new libraries and code
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jrclj - A JRuby to Clojure Bridge
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Clojure is a rapidly growing functional programming language for the JVM, and jrclj is designed to make your life easier if you want to call Clojure code from your Ruby code running on JRuby.
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switch_user - Convenient User Switching in Rails
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switch_user provides a convenient way to switch the current user session so that you don't waste your time to logout, login and input email (login) or passwords. It can also help you reproduce user specific errors in production.
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Frank - A new static site builder
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Frank is a new static site builder, in a similar vein to nanoc. Inspired by Sinatra, it lets you build static sites using your favorite Ruby libraries. Using Tilt, it comes with support for Haml, Sass, LESS, Builder, ERb and Liquid out of the box.
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dooby - A Simple CLI To-Do Manager
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Dooby is a simple command-line to-do/note list manager built in Ruby. Besides being a handy tool on its own, the source is worth browsing if you want to learn how to put together a basic but well structured CLI app.
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Ruby Jobs of the Week
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Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
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You've heard of LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network, right? They're looking for a senior software engineer
with a combination of JRuby, Sinatra, J2EE and SQL experience.
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Web Developer at Zamzee
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Zamzee is a Bay-area startup aimed at igniting a lifetime of physical activity in tweens. They're looking for two Rails
developers to ultimately work in Redwood City, though the first few months of the job will be on-site with Pivotal Labs
in San Francisco.
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