Railslove 'round the world

IfWeRanTheWorld

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:09:46 -0500

If I ran the world, I would …

“This is an experiment.

We’d love you to help us make it work.

We want to tap the single largest pool of untapped natural resource in the world: human good intentions that never translate into action. We need adventurers like you to generate actionplatforms and microactions, and then invite people to microact.”

So… are you game?

Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:44:02 -0500

Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd:

A set of standardised icons for popular social networking services and tools

josh's spoke - package and distribute GitHub code

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:22:19 -0500

josh's spoke - package and distribute GitHub code:

“Spoke helps package and distribute GitHub code. Encourages packaging best practices and conventions to eliminate long specifications forms and configuration sit ups.”

Edge Rails.info :: The Skinny on Scopes (Formerly named_scope)

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:20:43 -0500

Edge Rails.info :: The Skinny on Scopes (Formerly named_scope):

Very good introduction to Scopes (Formerly named_scope)

opensoul: css mess (via atzu)

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:44:08 -0500

opensoul:

css mess (via atzu)

zool - manage your servers authorized_keys files in a flexible and easy way

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:58:37 -0500

zool - manage your servers authorized_keys files in a flexible and easy way :

“zool is a gem to manage authorized_keys files on a set of n servers”

The Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:08:08 -0500

The Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook:

Inside you’ll find:

Almost 120 pages of upgrade information
A step-by-step guide to upgrading your app to Rails 3
High-level discussion of what’s new in Rails 3
Practical tips on using Rails 3’s new features to improve your code
Real case studies of upgrading apps and plugins
Detailed checklists for upgrading

Validation Reflections in Rails 3

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:04:37 -0500

Validation Reflections in Rails 3:

Now you can do stuff like: ’Person.validators’ and ‘Person.validators_on(:name)’ which will return the model validations like :presence or :length

Couchio: Thoughts on an Open Source Company

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:41:12 -0500

Couchio: Thoughts on an Open Source Company:

Damien here.

I wrote this almost a year ago. It’s something we want Couchio live by, to build a company we all want to be a part of.

—

Our companies mission to make the world a better place through open source software.

People are hired based on contributions to open source. Code,…

GO READ THE WHOLE POST!!!! NOW!!!

..why are you still here?! read it!

The Power and Philosophy of Ruby (Presentation by Matz)

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:48:00 -0500

The Power and Philosophy of Ruby (Presentation by Matz)

Using Bundler in Real Life « Katz Got Your Tongue?

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:44:29 -0500

Using Bundler in Real Life « Katz Got Your Tongue?

DailyJS: The Four Cs of JavaScript

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:25:28 -0500

DailyJS: The Four Cs of JavaScript:

The Four Cs of JavaScript

Sketchpad - Online Paint/Drawing application

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:56:52 -0500

Sketchpad - Online Paint/Drawing application:

This is like Photoshop in HTML5 + canvas. *crazy shit*

Open Source Twitter Text libraries

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:57:02 -0500

Open Source Twitter Text libraries:

Twitter Open Sourced their Code to handle Tweet-specific elements from a text. Currently Ruby and Java libraries are available.

This makes it easy to extract @mentions, #hastags, urls, etc. from a tweet.

feedly: a magazine-like start page

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:50:11 -0500

feedly: a magazine-like start page:

feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page.
based on Google Reader and Twitter.

persistence.js: An Asynchronous Javascript ORM for HTML5/Gears

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:46:19 -0500

persistence.js: An Asynchronous Javascript ORM for HTML5/Gears

RailsPlugins.org - Is Your Plugin Ready For Rails 3?

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:52:19 -0500

RailsPlugins.org - Is Your Plugin Ready For Rails 3?:

“Rails 3 includes a whole new API. It’s better, faster and stronger, but it might break existing plugins and gems. Use this site to quicklyfind and verify if the plugin or gem you want to use works with Rails 3.”

ryanb's importex at master - Importing Excel Data made easy

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:41:47 -0500

ryanb's importex at master - Importing Excel Data made easy:

“This Ruby gem helps import an Excel document into a database or some other format. Just create a class defining the columns and pass in a path to an “xls” file. It will automatically format the columns into specified Ruby objects and raise errors on bad data.”

hashrocket's slurper- Gem for slurping plain text stories into Pivotal Tracker

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:40:01 -0500

hashrocket's slurper- Gem for slurping plain text stories into Pivotal Tracker:

Allows you to transform plaintext like the following into stories in pivotaltracker

==
  story_type:
    feature
  name:
    Campaign Manager Does Something
  description:
    In order to get some value
    As a campaign manager
    I want to do something

    - can do something

  labels:
    campaign managers

Git from the bottom up

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:08:29 -0500

Git from the bottom up:

Looks like a really great 30 pages introduction paper into git. Not the high-level commands but “from the bottom up”