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This Week's Ruby News - Issue 112
Ruby Weekly - A Weekly Ruby Newsletter Issue #112 - September 27, 2012 ================================================================================ Featured -------- Turbolinks: Rails 4 to Get Ajax-based Page Loading by Default https://github.com/rails/turbolinks David Heinemeier Hansson has unveiled a pjax-a-like Ajax-based full page replacement library that will 'ship as default-on in Rails 4.0.' Worth investigating. Rails Rumble Registration Opens Monday, October 1st http://blog.railsrumble.com/ This year's Rails Rumble 48 hour Ruby webapp development contest takes place in mid October and registration is open between October 1-7. It's picked up a new logo and visual identity too which you can learn more about here. Let's get ready to rumble! SciRuby Receives Ruby Association Grant; Fellowships Available http://sciruby.com/blog/2012/09/24/sciruby-receives-ruby-... In RW #106 we linked up the Ruby Association's 2012 call for grant proposals and SciRuby, a Ruby equivalent of SciPy, has received 1 million yen. They're now looking to fund students to do full time development on their NMatrix library. Rescuing Resque: Let's Do This http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2012-09-22-resque--let... Steve Klabnik puts out the call for folks to get involved with revitalizing the popular Resque project. If you've been itching to help out on a popular Ruby project, here's a bat signal. From Our Sponsor ---------------- Get code quality metrics and alerts on every Git push http://launchbit.com/taz/358-1156-9659df23b6 Break free from technical debt. Code Climate analyzes each commit and instantly notifies your team of code quality issues and improvements via Campfire, email or RSS. Try it free for 14 days - or always free for OSS! <img src="*%7CLBPIXEL%7C**%7CEMAIL_UID%7C*"> Reading ------- Learning pjax: Tutorial and Screencast http://theadmin.org/articles/learning-pjax/ pjax loads HTML from a webapp into the current page without a full reload. pjax 1.0 was released earlier this month and Eric Davis shows us how to use it with a Sinatra app in both code and a handy 10 minute screencast. Unholy Rails: External Scripts, jQuery Plugins, and Page-Specific JavaScript http://railsapps.github.com/rails-javascript-include-exte... What is the best way to add a JS library to a Rails app? How can you include external JS files and jQuery plugins in the Rails asset pipeline? This in-depth article explains what to do when your application is not wholly Rails. Getting Started With Rails 3.2 and MiniTest http://rubyflewtoo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/getting-started... Upgrading to Ruby 1.9.3: Maximizing Performance http://pulse.sportngin.com/news_article/show/156863 A look at how various tweaks to Ruby 1.9.3 can improve performance. Includes nginx, Passenger, and Ruby garbage collector tweaks. Filepicker and Aviary: Image Uploading On Steroids http://blog.arkency.com/2012/09/filepicker-and-aviary-ima... Filepicker is a library and service for handling file uploads and Aviary is a powerful HTML5-based image editor. This walkthrough shows you how to tie them together with a Rails app. Make Your Rails Development Faster with ruby-perf and Zeus http://progfu.com/post/32050264470/make-your-rails-develo... Zeus is a recently released tool for preloading and quickly rerunning Rails apps (usually for testing purposes). Rails Guides: Ruby on Rails 4.0 Release Notes (Early Draft) http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/4_0_release_notes.html It's still very early days but work has started on fleshing out an official Rails Guide for Rails 4.0's release notes. Read at your peril; work in progress! A Mind Map of New Ideas and Features Coming in Rails 4 http://blog.wyeworks.com/2012/9/20/rails-4-in-a-mindnode/ Ruby's Magic Underscore http://po-ru.com/diary/rubys-magic-underscore/ Paul Battley notices that Ruby's parser has a quirk for dealing with a variable called '_' Ruby's EventMachine – Part 2 : Asynchronous != Faster http://www.bigfastblog.com/ruby-eventmachine-part-2-async... Phil Whelan continues his series of posts digging into how to use EventMachine. Be Assertive with Sane Exception Handling http://pbrisbin.com/posts/be_assertive Monitoring your Unicorns and Resque with Bluepill and Upstart http://www.garrensmith.com/2012/09/24/Staying-up-with-Uni... Watching and Listening ---------------------- Implementing Tags in a Rails App with acts-as-taggable-on http://railscasts.com/episodes/382-tagging Ryan Bates of RailsCasts is back with a look at how to implement tagging in a Rails app using the acts-as-taggable-on gem. RubyTapas Episode 1: Binary Literals http://devblog.avdi.org/2012/09/24/rubytapas-episode-1-bi... Avdi Grimm (of Exceptional Ruby fame) has launched a new subscription service focused around short Ruby screencasts. Here's episode 1 which he's offering as a sample. Writing a Rails Engine http://confreaks.com/videos/1109-gogaruco2012-writing-a-r... In 25 minutes, Erik Michaels-Ober guides us through building a Rails Engine from scratch or converting your existing plugin (a now deprecated approach) to an engine. Schemaless SQL: The Best of Both Worlds http://www.confreaks.com/videos/971-mwrc2012-schemaless-s... At MountainWest RubyConf 2012, Will Leinweber looked at recent advances in PostgreSQL and how it allows you to compromise between using a relational database and avoiding restrictive schemas. Jesse Storimer on Ruby's IO Buffering And You! http://jstorimer.com/2012/09/25/ruby-io-buffers.html Libraries and Code ------------------ RubyMotion Gets iOS 6 and iPhone 5 Support, Plus a Debugger http://blog.rubymotion.com/post/31917526853/rubymotion-ge... RubyMotion 1.24 is out and adds support for the iOS 6 SDK and iPhone 5. A GDB-based debugger has also been added. Oh My Gems! http://blog.zenspider.com/blog/2012/09/ohmygems.html Ryan Davis says he's 'tired of the complications that tools like Bundler and RVM inject' and shares a 40 line shell function that takes a different approach to choosing where gems are stored. Sequel 3.40.0 Released: Much Improved MS Access Support and More https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sequel-talk/cArZg... rails-auth-github: Simple Rails Engine to Authorize Users Against GitHub https://github.com/grk/rails-auth-github A port of sinatra_auth_github to Rails. Ideal for simple situations such as small internal apps where an OmniAuth-style solution might be too much. nopassword: A No-Password-Needed Authentication Engine for Rails https://github.com/alsmola/nopassword An authentication and session management framework (in a Rails Engine) that eliminates the need for passwords. Jobs ---- Rails Developer at Decisiv, Inc. [Anywhere, Remote Working!] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/735016 Rails Software Engineer at EchoStar Advanced Technologies [New York City] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/734630 Rails Contractor at Aetos Capital [Menlo Park, California] http://jobs.rubyinside.com/a/jbb/job-details/735179 Back-end Software Engineer at Geckoboard (London, UK) http://www.geckoboard.com/jobs/#backend Last but not least.. -------------------- Honeybadger: A New Error Management Service for Rails https://www.honeybadger.io/ A new error notice system for Rails apps from Ben Curtis that focuses on speed. Includes SMS alerts and GitHub and Campfire integration. A commercial service but has a free trial. ================================================================================ 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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