Archive for November 2008

Blog: Glassfish with RMagick

Glassfish with RMagick by Rob Britton

Deploying a JRuby on Rails app with Glassfish is a relatively simple process, and in my opinion much easier than with Mongrel. Takes about 15 minutes.

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Web: Rails Internationalization

Rails I18n – Internationalization for Ruby on Rails contains a lot of information/tutorials/demo for implementing language support in Rails 2.2

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Presentation: BDD for RoR with RSpec and Friends

Behavior Driven Design for Ruby on Rails with RSpec and Friends by David Chelimsky from Windy City Rails Conf 2008

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Blog: Rails 2.2 Released – 27 Links and Resources To Get You Going

Rails 2.2 Released – 27 Links and Resources To Get You Going by Peter Cooper

Ruby's most popular Web application framework, Ruby on Rails, takes another giant step today with the release of Rails 2.2! It follows on just five months after Rails 2.1, but offers even more significant improvements, particularly in the areas of compatibility, internationalization, and documentation.

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Blog: jQuery on Rails: Why Bother?

jQuery on Rails: Why Bother? by John Nunemaker

A few people have suggested that I post about how to use jQuery with Rails. I thought about it and felt that others have already covered it quite well but why not collect their posts here for you to enjoy, right? Plus, I do all my JavaScript from scatch so I do not really ever use the helpers Rails provides and as such could not post intelligently on them.

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Blog: Git’n Your Shared Host On

Git'n Your Shared Host On by John Nunemaker

if you are a lone shark and you don’t need GitHub’s awesome social features, I have news for you: you can host your own git repositories really easily and on the cheap side.

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Blog: JBoss on Rails: Deploying Rails Apps to a JBoss App Server

JBoss on Rails: Deploying Rails Apps to a JBoss App Server by Peter Cooper with slide presentation: JBoss, Rails and the Cloud by Bob McWhirter

Java-heads will be familiar with JBoss, a popular Java EE-based application server. Bob McWhirter has been working on a plugin to make it easy to deploy Rails applications to a JBoss app server – something that could be quite appealing if you work in a Java-only zone (common in managed deployment situations) or if you want to sell your code to enterprises with this restriction.

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Blog: Static Analysis Tools Roundup: Roodi, Rufus, Reek, Flay

Static Analysis Tools Roundup: Roodi, Rufus, Reek, Flay by Werner Schuster

Static analysis tools allow to keep code quality up and warn of potential bugs. Compilers in statically compiled languages often run static analysis checks and report potential problems as warnings. Popular stand-alone tools are C's lint or Smalltalk Lint, many modern IDEs also perform static analysis on code, often incrementally as code is edited.

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Articles: Changes in Ruby 1.9

Changes in Ruby 1.9 from eigenclass.org

Getting Code Ready for Ruby 1.9 by James Edward Gray II

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