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This Week's Ruby News - Issue 99
Ruby Weekly - A Weekly Ruby Newsletter Issue #99 - June 28, 2012 ================================================================================ Headlines --------- 'Programming in CoffeeScript' by Mark Bates, Now Available http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/032182010X/ Mark Bates, a Ruby developer, was won over by CoffeeScript and has written a book for Addison-Wesley which has now been published. Despite being a language that compiles down to JavaScript, CoffeeScript has become relevant to Rails developers in recent times given its inclusion in Rails 3.1+. MagicRuby 2012: A Ruby Conference At Walt Disney World (October 2012) http://magic-ruby.com/ Reading ------- Am I Doing It Wrong? https://gist.github.com/2838490#gistcomment-356060 A month ago, Rubyist Justin Ko asked fellow Rubyists if his code in a Rails project was poorly designed or not. The initial consensus was that he'd done a good job but then last week DHH weighed in and.. it got a bit 'dramatic.' My (new) Favourite RSpec Pattern http://blog.thefrontiergroup.com.au/2012/06/my-new-favour... Jordan Maguire shares an interesting RSpec technique and there's some interesting debate in the comments. It seems popular, though Geoffrey Grosenbach raises doubts about its readability. Tutorial: Reddit in 10 Lines of Code http://www.drurly.com/blog/2012/06/26/reddit-in-10-lines-... A curious walkthrough of taking an existing 'Reddit in Sinatra' and using some 'seldom used features of Ruby' to cram it down to 10 lines of dense Ruby code. Data Scraping And More With Ruby, Nokogiri, Sinatra And Heroku http://hunterpowers.com/data-scraping-and-more-with-ruby-... Generating Random URL-safe tokens with SecureRandom http://coderwall.com/p/kqhlna Burke Libbey shows off a single liner that can generate a URL safe token using something from the Ruby standard library. How We Used Rails and Backbone.js to Build A Lightning-Fast Webapp http://adrianpike.tumblr.com/post/25812863078/how-we-used... Rails 4.0 Sneak Peek: Queueing http://reefpoints.dockyard.com/ruby/2012/06/25/rails-4-sn... A quick look at the new queueing API in edge Rails (to become Rails 4.0). Rails 4.0 Sneak Peek: Asynchronous ActionMailer http://reefpoints.dockyard.com/ruby/2012/06/26/rails-4-sn... Lessons Learned: The First Six Months of Running a Rails Consultancy http://reefpoints.dockyard.com/opinion/2012/06/21/lessons... Watching and Listening ---------------------- Facebook Authentication in Rails (RailsCasts) http://railscasts.com/episodes/360-facebook-authentication Ryan Bates shows us how to create a new Facebook application, configure it, add authentication with the omniauth-facebook gem and top it off with client-side authentication using the JavaScript SDK. Complex Made Simple: Sleep Better with TorqueBox http://confreaks.com/videos/912-railsconf2012-complex-mad... At RailsConf 2012, Lance Ball spoke about TorqueBox, a popular Ruby application server built on JRuby and JBoss AS7 that provides asynchronous messaging, scheduled jobs, long-running processes, caching, and more. The Ruby Rogues Discuss SOLID with Jim Weirich http://rubyrogues.com/rr-60-solid-with-jim-weirich/ The Rogues sit down with Ruby old-hand and all round nice guy Jim Weirich to talk about the 'SOLID' principles of object oriented design. The Changelog Interviews Laurent Sansonetti about Ruby Motion, MacRuby and More http://thechangelog.com/post/25928209107/episode-0-8-2-ru... The Changelog guys caught up with RubyMotion creator Laurent Sansonetti to talk about MacRuby, RubyMotion, MonoTouch, and more. Libraries and Code ------------------ Rack Canonical Host: Middleware for Defining A Canonical Host Name https://github.com/tylerhunt/rack-canonical-host Rack middleware for defining a single hostname as the canonical host for your app. Requests for other hostnames will get redirected to the canonical host. Aspector: Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) for Ruby https://github.com/gcao/aspector SoundCord: Perform Comparisons for Phonetically Similar Terms https://github.com/lukasalexandre/soundcord A phonetic algorithm matches two different words with similar pronunciation to the same code, which allows phonetic similarity based word set comparison and indexing. SoundCord is initially aimed at Brazilian Portuguese but English and Spanish support is not far behind. minitest 3.2.0 Released http://blog.zenspider.com/releases/2012/06/minitest-versi... rbfu 0.3.0: A Light-Weight Alternative to RVM and rbenv http://hmans.io/2012/06/27/rbfu-0-3-0/ Jist: Publish GitHub 'gists' from Ruby https://github.com/ConradIrwin/jist Jist is a gem that allows you to publish a gist from Ruby or the command line including file uploads and OAuth2 authentication. ffi-http-parser: Ruby FFI Bindings to the 'http-parser' Library https://github.com/postmodern/ffi-http-parser http-parser is a high performance HTTP message parser written in C by Joyent. ffi-http-parser can hook your Ruby scripts up to it for parsing both HTTP requests and responses. R18n: I18N Tool to Translate Your Ruby Application https://github.com/ai/r18n OmniAuth StackExchange: StackExchange OAuth Strategy for OmniAuth https://github.com/nashby/omniauth-stackexchange Jobs ---- Back End Developer, SoundCloud, Berlin, Germany http://soundcloud.com/jobs/2012-03-23-back-end-developer-... Soundcloud is looking for an über-talented back end web developer with knowledge of the latest web development tools and methodologies. As part of our A-team, you will be faced with the challenges of developing the world's leading audio sharing platform. Sr. Ruby on Rails Software Engineer http://getg5.com/about/careers/sr-software-engineers-ruby... Do you live to work hard, play hard, live life big? Then consider working at G5. G5 has created a digital experience management platform designed to allow clients to optimize their online experience. Our mission is to help our customers and employees thrive. Senior Tech Lead at Seso Media Group [Los Angeles, California] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/699679 See 20 other Ruby and Rails jobs on our job board! http://jobs.rubyinside.com/ Last but not least.. -------------------- Sublime Text 2 for Ruby http://blog.codeclimate.com/blog/2012/06/21/sublime-text-... A look at the Sublime Text 2 programmers' text editor including why it's a good fit for Rubyists and how to set it up in a productive manner. ================================================================================ 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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