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This Week's Ruby News - Issue 97
Ruby Weekly - A Weekly Ruby Newsletter Issue #97 - June 14, 2012 ================================================================================ From the Editor's Desk.. ------------------------ Last week I included a link called 'Using vim-slime with Pry for REPL Perfection' which over 800 of you clicked! Sadly, the author's hosting went down the same day.. so I've included it again this week. It also seems everyone's coding instead of writing, so having only one article this week is no mistake.. :-) - Peter. Headlines --------- Announcing Pow 0.4.0 With xip.io Support http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3191-announcing-pow-040-wi... 37signals' Sam Stephenson has unveiled the latest version of the popular Mac OS X zero-configuration web server for Ruby webapp development. Port proxying is one of the new features. Take My 30 Second Ruby Webcast Survey https://petercooper.wufoo.com/forms/ruby-webcast-survey/ I'm planning to run some Ruby oriented 'webcasts' (live, 30-60 minute presentations + live coding) and have a handful of ideas. I want to see which are the most popular and would appreciate your help (or even your own ideas). Early Access to Avdi Grimm's 'Confident Ruby' Available http://devblog.avdi.org/2012/06/05/confident-ruby-beta/ Avdi Grimm, author of the popular Exceptional Ruby and Objects on Rails, is working on his new book, Confident Ruby. It's still under development but you can get access now in return for some money or, intriguingly, a postcard. JewelryBox 1.3 Released: The Official OS X RVM GUI http://jewelrybox.unfiniti.com/ JewelryBox is a GUI app that brings OS X and RVM together in a loving embrace. 1.3 brings improved usability, gemset management, and Mountain Lion compatibility (it's a signed app, so no GateKeeper complaints either). Reading ------- Using vim-slime with Pry for REPL Perfection http://www.alanmacdougall.com/blog/2012/03/27/using-vim-s... A repeat item from last week. Alan MacDougall demonstrates how you can set up vim so that you can send Ruby code straight from the editor into an interactive Pry session. Watching and Listening ---------------------- The Ruby Rogues Interview DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) http://rubyrogues.com/056-rr-david-heinemeier-hansson/ Dangers of Session Hijacking (RailsCasts) http://railscasts.com/episodes/356-dangers-of-session-hij... Ryan Bates of RailsCasts takes a look at the dangers of 'session hijacking' and shows off a way to improve the situation on a Rails app. Introducing the 'Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots' Podcast http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/24882797476/introducing... Courtesy of Ben Orenstein and Thoughtbot comes a new development oriented podcast based around Thoughtbot's popular Ruby and Rails blog. Matz's Keynote at Euruko 2012 http://vimeo.com/43590847 This year, the annual European Ruby Conference landed in Amsterdam and here's Matz's keynote to enjoy on Vimeo. Geoffrey Grosenbach's Euruko Keynote http://vimeo.com/43590848 Let the always mellifluous murmurs of PeepCode's Geoffrey Grosenbach wash over you in this 40 minute keynote. Libraries and Code ------------------ Savon 1.0 Released: 'Heavy Metal' SOAP Client http://savonrb.com/ Okay, SOAP might not be the big deal it once was, but many APIs and enterprise technologies still use it, and Savon, even pre-1.0, has been a popular choice for using SOAP from Ruby. BubbleWrap: Cocoa Wrappers and Helpers for RubyMotion http://bubblewrap.io/ BubbleWrap is a collection of (tested) helpers and wrappers used to wrap CocoaTouch code and provide more Ruby-like APIs. Sinew: Collect Structured Data From Web Sites (by Scraping) https://github.com/gurgeous/sinew Sinew collects structured data from the Web (using scraping techniques) via a Ruby DSL built for crawling, a robust caching system, and integration with Nokogiri. Announcing Virtus 0.5.0 (Part of DataMapper 2 Is Done) http://solnic.eu/2012/06/10/part-of-datamapper-2-is-done-... Virtus is a key part of the forthcoming DataMapper 2 which provides attributes for plain Ruby objects. You can now use Virtus in modules, dynamically extend objects on the fly, and Structs can be used as an embedded value in other objects. Doodle: Extended Attribute Accessors for Objects http://doodle.rubyforge.org/ A Ruby gem for creating extended attribute accessors with defaults, conversions and validations (along similar lines to last week's 'SmartProperties' item). display_case: Avdi Grimm's Implementation Of The Exhibit Pattern https://github.com/objects-on-rails/display-case nanoc 3.4 Released http://nanoc.stoneship.org/blog/34/ The popular Web site generation / publishing tool (think a more flexible Jekyll) gets an update. Bustle: Simple ORM Agnostic Activity Recording/Retrieval with Pub/Sub https://github.com/fredwu/bustle RubyMass: Introspect the Ruby Heap on MRI 1.8.7, 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 https://github.com/archan937/ruby-mass csv_validator: CSV Data Validation for Rails 3 https://github.com/mattfordham/csv_validator Markdown Engine Wrapper http://geraldb.github.com/markdown/ An abstraction and wrapper library that gives access to several different Ruby Markdown libraries both in Ruby and via a command line app called 'markdown'. Grocer: Send Push Notifications to iOS Devices Through Apple https://github.com/highgroove/grocer Sort By Field: Sorting by Fields for Arrays and Enumerable Objects https://github.com/tribune/sort_by_field Mina: Fast Deployment and Server Automation Tool http://nadarei.co/mina/ Mina lets you build and run scripts to manage your app deployments on servers via SSH. Ruby based and framework/project agnostic. Jobs ---- Head of Tech or Lead Developer - Purpose (New York, NY) http://skillfer.com/apply.html Manage a new technology initiative for an established agency. The project aims to build tools for the “ethical consumer” and the hands-on role includes all aspects of development, management and deployment. Competitive comp + stock options. Senior Ruby Engineer/Founding Team Member at Groupiter @500 Startups [San Francisco] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/698524 Rails Software Engineer at Mulu.me [Los Angeles] http://mulu.me/about/jobs Last but not least.. -------------------- Ruby Fiddle: Ruby Snippets in the Browser http://rubyfiddle.com/ If you've done any JavaScript work, you might be familiar with 'JSFiddle' a popular site that previews HTML, JS, and CSS you supply in the browser. Ruby Fiddle aims to do similarly for Ruby, though the code runs remotely. ================================================================================ 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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