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This Week's Ruby News - Issue 89
Ruby Weekly - A Weekly Ruby Newsletter Issue #89 - April 19, 2012 From the Editor's Desk.. ------------------------ Welcome to issue 89 of Ruby Weekly! RailsConf 2012 is taking place next week in Austin, Texas, so I hope you have a great time if you're going. The speaker lineup is excellent. But if not, never fear, I'll try and share videos and blog posts of the event in Ruby Weekly ASAP :-) - Peter. Headlines --------- Announcing 'MacRuby In Action' http://intridea.com/blog/2012/4/12/macruby-in-action-release MacRuby In Action is a new book hat teaches Ruby developers how to code OS X applications using MacRuby, an OS X-focused Ruby implementation. Jerry Cheung, a senior engineer at Intridea authored the book alongside Brendan Lim and Jeremy McAnally. Phusion Passenger 3.0.12 Released http://blog.phusion.nl/2012/04/13/phusion-passenger-3-0-1... The popular Apache and Nginx module for deploying Rack-based Ruby webapps gets an update. It now supports Apache 2.4 and the event MPM. GitHub Rolls Out An Easier Way to Create Repositories https://github.com/blog/1105-an-easier-way-to-create-repo... It's not Ruby specific, but GitHub's prevalence in the Ruby world should make their latest tweaks to the repository creation process interesting to anyone familiar with the service. From our sponsor ---------------- RailsThemes.com: Quick, Easy & Beautiful Rails Themes https://railsthemes.com/ Whether you need to get the foundations of a good polished design that you can customize for a client, or you just want to make a side-project beautiful, RailsThemes.com is going to get you where you want to go.. fast. Reading ------- Introducing DCell: Actor-based Distributed Objects for Ruby http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/04/introducing-dcell... DCell by Tony Arcieri (of Celluloid fame) is an actor-based distributed object oriented programming framework for Ruby. It's hard to explain the concepts involved in a short summary but this post does a great job (think an easier, better structured DRb). A Sneak Preview of Phusion Passenger 3.2 http://blog.phusion.nl/2012/04/13/a-sneak-preview-of-phus... Phusion has been hard at work on the popular Apache and Nginx module (already mentioned above) and explains the internal overhauls that have taken place in the forthcoming Passenger 3.2. Lessons Learned Upgrading Harvest to Ruby 1.9.3 (from REE) http://techtime.getharvest.com/blog/harvest-is-now-on-rub... Harvest is a popular time tracking webapp that uses Ruby behind the scenes. They've just done a big REE to Ruby 1.9.3 upgrade and in this post T J Schuck shares some notes about the process and the 1.8 to 1.9 issues they encountered. Some Topics From 'The dRuby Book' Explained http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2012/04/11/the-druby-book-di... A month ago, I shared the news of the Pragmatic Programmers releasing 'The dRuby Book' by Masatoshi Seki. Here, its translator Makoto Inoue goes through some of the topics covered in the book and shows off some uses of DRb. How to Serve Your Rails Assets Over Amazon S3 with asset_sync http://blog.firmhouse.com/complete-guide-to-serving-your-... User Authentication with Rails and Backbone.js http://42floors.com/blog/posts/user-authentication-with-r... Backbone.js is a handy JavaScript framework for developing webapps and Rails is similarly handy on the backend. James R Bracy of 42Floors shares how they use Rails and Backbone together and perform user authentication. Watching and Listening ---------------------- Migrating to PostgreSQL by RailsCasts http://railscasts.com/episodes/342-migrating-to-postgresql Ryan Bates continues his long line of awesome RailsCasts with a look at how to use the open source PostgreSQL database system with Rails and how to migrate an existing SQLite-backed Rails app to using it. Designing Hypermedia APIs by Steve Klabnik https://vimeo.com/40084288 Steve Klabnik recently gave a talk on REST and Hypermedia APIs, the topic of his forthcoming book, Designing Hypermedia APIs. Audio isn't great but it's good to see Steve speak. DSLs in Ruby http://vimeo.com/40451457 Kathy Van Stone delivers a talk about domain specific languages in Ruby, and shows a brief example. The talk is 40 minutes long and the audio quality somewhat better than Steve's talk above. Ruby Rogues Talk to Jeff Casimir about Ruby Training http://rubyrogues.com/050-rr-hungry-academy-with-jeff-cas... The Ruby Rogues sit down with renowned Ruby and Rails trainer Jeff Casimir to discuss his role with the Hungry Academy training program and to talk about the ideas behind training students in the art of programming generally. Libraries and Code ------------------ Authority: An ORM Agnostic Authorization System for Rails https://github.com/nathanl/authority Authority helps you authorize actions in your Rails app. It's ORM-neutral and has little fancy syntax. Just group your models under one or more Authorizer classes and write plain Ruby methods on them. Pry 0.9.9 Released https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pry-rb/L-kXX-T0OGY Pry is a popular (and significantly more powerful) alternative to irb, the interactive Ruby console. Version 0.9.9 of Pry brings line-based code highlighting, method finding, and a torrent of general improvements. Her: An ORM for REST APIs https://github.com/remiprev/her Her is an ORM that map REST resources to Ruby objects. It maps HTTP responses to Ruby objects (through JSON) and adds methods to Ruby objects to trigger HTTP requests. cache_method: An Easy Way to Cache Method Results https://github.com/seamusabshere/cache_method cache_method caches the results of calling methods given their arguments. It's like memoization, but the results are stored in Memcached, Redis, etc. so the cached results can be shared between processes and hosts. redis_failover: A Ruby-based Solution for Redis Master/Slave Failover https://github.com/ryanlecompte/redis_failover Redis Failover is a ZooKeeper-based automatic master/slave failover solution for Ruby by Ryan LeCompte. (Apache ZooKeeper is a tool for centralized server configuration, coordination, and synchronization.) Rack::Worker: The Worker Pattern as Rack Middleware https://github.com/csquared/rack-worker Jobs ---- Senior Web Engineer for Rapidly-Growing Education Business (Steve and Kate's Camp) http://ruby.jobamatic.com/a/jbb/job-details/681975 Steve and Kate's Camp is seeking a senior web software engineer ready to get their hands dirty now and interested in growing and leading a technical team down the road. Experience with TDD/BDD, Ruby, Rails, and devops all useful. Based in Sausalito, CA. Senior Rails Engineer at Signature Labs [San Francisco] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/670905 Last but not least.. -------------------- Rails One Click: Another Simple Rails Installer for OS X http://railsoneclick.com/ I've mentioned both Rails.app and Railcar in recent issues, but Rails One Click is another entry to the 'Rails installer for OS X' melee. It's a complete installer with a nice design and well suited to beginners. It focuses on installing only the minimum required to get started building a Rails app. JavaScript Weekly: Like Ruby Weekly But.. for JavaScript! http://javascriptweekly.com/ I've spoken to some readers recently who were surprised to learn I also run a JavaScript weekly newsletter, so I thought I'd give it another mention here. There's lots of exciting stuff happening in the JS world lately so if you want to keep up.. I've got the newsletter for you :-) @JavaScriptDaily: A Twitter Alternative to JavaScript Weekly https://twitter.com/#!/javascriptdaily ================================================================================ You opted in for Ruby Weekly at http://rubyweekly.com/ to get weekly e-mails about the Ruby programming language. Our mailing address is: Office 30, Lincoln Way, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, Lincs, UK, LN11 9EJ. You can e-mail the list maintainer directly at rw@peterc.org in case of problems/questions. (Log in to post comments)
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