Adam and Wynn caught up with Sam Stephenson from 37Signals to talk about his his many open source projects and developing Basecamp Mobile. Items mentioned in the show: Nathan Smith, friend of the show, creator of 960.gs, Adapt, Formalize, and featured in Episode 0.3.2 Sam Stephenson, programmer at 37signals, creator of massive amounts of open [...]
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Episode 0.6.1 – Oh my zsh! with Robby Russell
Adam and Kenneth caught up with Robby Russell to talk about his community-driven zsh project. Items mentioned in the show: Coderwall now features a Changelog’d badge oh-my-zsh A community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Robby Russell is Chief Evangelist at Planet Argon Derek Sivers from CD Baby Robby weighs in on the bash vs. [...]
Summer Breeze: creates dynamic Rails fixtures for Jasmine tests right
On stage at Red Dirt Ruby Conference, Noel Rappin has released Summer Breeze, a gem that makes working with Jasmine in Rails a bit easier. Summer Breeze dynamically creates Rails fixtures for your Jasmine tests. Installation and usage To install via RubyGems: gem install summer_breeze … and run the bundled generator: rails generate summer_breeze:install Now [...]
pow: Zero-configuration Rack server for Mac OS X right
I’ve been a long-time Passenger user to switch between multiple Ruby web apps during development without needing to crank up rails s for each. When I began using RVM to switch back and forth between multiple Ruby versions, Passenger no longer solved my problem. That’s why I’m excited to try out Pow from 37 Signals. [...]
Episode 0.5.2 – Serve, RadiantCMS, Prototyping, and Design with John Long
Adam sat down with Designer/Developer John Long, creator of RadiantCMS about his new project Serve, design, and running a successful open source project. Items mentioned in the show: John Long of Wiseheart design Serve is a rapid prototyping framework for web applications John created RadiantCMS, later extended by Sean Cribbs Radiant led John to a [...]
Episode 0.5.0 – Ruby, Rails, and the Cloud with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard
Steve and Wynn caught up with Dr. Nic from Engine Yard to talk about the cloud, Jenkins, Ruby, and lowering the barrier of entry for learning Rails on Windows. Items mentioned in the show: Catch up with us at Red Dirt Ruby Conf Steve will be at Codeconf Kenneth will be covering PyCon 2011 Thanks [...]
navigasmic: Semantic navigation for Rails right
Site navigation isn’t rocket surgery. But how many times have you gone down this route? You plop that <ul> into your header and then add <li>’s with each of your site navigation links. Then you need to make one of them highlighted based on the current page. Suddenly your nice clean view code gets a [...]
comfortable-mexican-sofa: Tiny yet powerful micro CMS for Rails 3 right
When writing up this project, a CMS from GBH at TWG, I felt a bit like Robin Williams’ character in Good Morning Vietnam when he said. Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn’t we keep the PC on the QT? ‘Cause if it leaks to the VC he could [...]
Episode 0.4.7 – Open Government and the Citizen Coder with Carl Tashian
Adam and Wynn caught up with Carl Tashian from Open Government to talk about OpenGovernment.org, OpenCongress.org, and the rise of the Citizen Coder. Items mentioned in the show: Carl Tashian is Director of Technology at Open Government OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level OpenCongress.org – open source Rails app to [...]
railsready: Setup script to get Ruby and Rails running on Ubuntu with one command right
How would you like to get a full Ruby on Rails stack up on Ubuntu with one command? Now you can by running Rails Ready. Rails Ready is a setup script that gets Ruby and Rails running on a fresh install of Ubuntu with one command (Tested on Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS (Long-term Support)). This [...]
OpenGovernment: Empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level right
When 9 Trillion dollars goes missing from the Federal Reserve and the Federal Inspector General can’t explain the details of that missing money, what can “we” the people do about it? (See a visualization of 1 Trillion Dollars) Watch this YouTube video to learn more about this insane debacle. Sadly, Alan Grayson (the questioner) never [...]
RailsAdmin – Rails 3 engine to view your data right
I am super pumped about RailsAdmin. It’s a Ruby Summer of Code project by Bogdan Gaza. But apparently not just him, as he tweeted: So what’s it do? Let’s let a screenshot do the talking: Yep. Super simple access to view, edit and search all of the models in your Rails 3 application. It’s incredibly [...]
Episode 0.4.2 – Rails 3.1 and SproutCore with Yehuda Katz
Adam and Wynn caught up with Yehuda Katz to talk about upcoming changes in Rails 3.1, SproutCore, and his growing list of open source projects. Items mentioned in the show: Wynn’s deck from ‘07 pays tribute to Yehuda Merb influenced and later merged with Rails SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber [...]
t-minus: Instant prelaunch page for your Rails3 app right
Let’s say you want to generate some buzz for your app as you develop. It would be nice to have a splash page to collect email signups and then quickly take down when the site is ready. If you’re running Rails 3, John Grimes has made it a snap with T-minus, a Rails engine that [...]
oauth2_provider: Make your Rails app an OAuth v2.0 provider right
With the likes of Facebook, GitHub, Gowalla, and others adopting OAuth 2.0, client libraries have been popping up everywhere. If you want to join the cool kids and OAuth2-enable your API, where do you start? ThoughtWorks Studios has released oauth2_provider, a Rails plugin to provide OAuth2 authentication to your app. Install via RubyGems: $ gem [...]
Episode 0.3.3 – Node Knockout
Micheil and Wynn caught up with Gerad and Visnu from the Node Knockout to talk about the 48 hour Node.js development competition and its entries. Items mentioned in the show: Lone Star Ruby Conference – Texas’ regional Ruby conference in Austin Mike Perham – The awesome Rubyist whose name gives Wynn fits Node Knockout – [...]
Redmine releases 1.0 Release Candidate right
After four years of tireless work, the Redmine team has released a 1.0 Release Candidate version of the feature rich Rails-based issue tracker. New in this release is a long-awaited REST API for issues and a ton of other features and bug fixes. Congrats to Jean-Phillipe Lang, Eric Davis and everyone involved! [Mirror on GitHub] [...]
Episode 0.2.7 – Padrino Ruby web framework
Adam and Wynn caught up with Arthur Chiu and Nathan Esquenazi from Padrino, the Ruby web framework built on top of Sinatra. Items mentioned in the show: Padrino – über modular web framework built on top Sinatra #padrino – Padrino’s IRC channel @ irc.freenode.net Ramaze – “Web framework for Rubyists” Mountable apps in Padrino Rack [...]
That app is Phat right
We all know the Rails Can’t Scale line to be bunk, but that doesn’t mean we stop looking for ways to speed up Rails apps. Mike Perham says his apps are Phat, and yours can be, too. Phat is a Rails app pattern that employs a single Thread, multiple Fiber model in Ruby 1.9 to [...]
Shop til you drop: Spree hits 0.10.0 right
Spree, the leading Rails storefront project, has released version 0.10.0 with some big new changes: Named scopes and product groups Pluggable search (with extension support for Xapian, Sphinx and Solr.) Theming New and improved multi-step checkout Improved gateway configuration Multiple payment methods Refunds and credits SEO improvements RESTful API Support for Rails 2.3.5 and Ruby [...]
Mongrations – migrations for MongoMapper right
Why would a schema-less database need migrations? Simple: to help you keep old data fresh as you change your data format. Recently added new columns to your MongoMapper model and need to update old values in your MongoDB collection? Terry Heath gives you Mongrations: script/generate mongration update_followers_count_for_existing You’ll get a new file with the familiar [...]
Episode 0.1.5 – Leah Culver on OAuth, Hurl.it, Baconfile, and more
Adam and Wynn caught up with Leah Culver and talked about startups, APIs, and her open source work on OAuth, oEmbed, Hurl.it, Baconfile, and more. OAuth An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications. oEmbed oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation [...]
Rails 3.0 beta! right
After more than a year and over 4000 commits by 250 authors, the Rails 3 Beta is here! The Rails 3.0.0.beta gem is now live on Gemcutter: sudo gem install tzinfo builder memcache-client rack rack-test rack-mount erubis mail text-format thor bundler i18n sudo gem install rails –pre [Source on GitHub] [Official CHANGELOG] [Ruby gem][Yehuda’s blog [...]
Episode 0.1.1 – John Nunemaker from Ordered List, RailsTips.org, and MongoMapper
Adam and Wynn caught up with John Nunemaker from Ordered List to chat about open source, improving your craft, building a business, and how MongoDB has changed his life. Items mentioned in the show: John’s Ruby projects The Twitter gem, HTTParty, Crack, MongoMapper MongoHQ, shared MongoDB hosting The GitHub Fork Queue Harmony, the new CMS [...]
mongo_admin: Rails plugin for web based MongoMapper admin right
Browse and manage your MongoMapper data using your browser using this Rails plugin from @2dc. [Source on GitHub] [Demo]
Episode 0.0.6 – Steven Bristol from LessEverything and weekly news
In this episode, Adam, Wynn, and Steven Bristol of LessEverything fame discuss Erlang, Javascript on the server, Lighthouse, Docsplit, Rackamole/whackamole, unfollowing under-performing Twitter peeps, and suing domain squatters.
Episode 0.0.5 – Document Cloud
We interviewed Jeremy Ashkenas Lead Developer at DocumentCloud about their effort to revolutionize the way media organizations gather news. Jeremy discusses their open source projects CloudCrowd, Underscore.js, and JAMMIT that they’ve released along the way.
WebROaR: Ruby/Rack/Rails Application Server right
WebROaR aims to make the deployment of Ruby on Rails applications more easier, and provide an integrated solution to monitor the performance of the application and track its exceptions. This is made possible by a simple and easy to use admin panel of the server. It also is the best performing server as per the [...]
Rails 2.3.5 released right
Unofficial release notes from Mike Gunderloy: An XSS vulnerability in strip_tags is fixed. Several Ruby 1.9 compatibility fixes :_delete option in nested attributes has been renamed to :_destroy The MySQL adapter is updated to allow the use of stored procedures Rails is tested with newer versions of Rack (1.0.1), the MySQL adapter (2.8.1), Mocha (0.9.8), [...]
JAMMIT – Rails plugin for asset packaging right
Jammit is an industrial strength asset packaging library for Rails, providing both the CSS and JavaScript concatenation and compression that you’d expect, as well as ahead-of-time gzipping, built-in JavaScript template support, and optional Data-URI / MHTML image embedding.