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Master, console, and servant part two
This is a brief addition to the post from a few days ago, Master, console, and servant.Noradio on IRC pointed out one thing that I did not mention in my previous blog entry… that you can bind a...
View ArticlePHP versus Ruby, round two
Apparently, there was a double booking at the venue tonight where the Portland Ruby Brigade is having the monthly meeting at.Who are we double booked with? The Portland PHP user’s group. I’m not...
View ArticlePortland Ruby Brigade meets CD Baby
This is what happened to the Portland Ruby Brigade today: Got double booked on meeting night with the PHP groupGot asked to leave after getting threats of the lights being turned offStayed almost til...
View Articleirb history hack
Okay, I’ve posted a fewthings about console recently and I know that you’re all using it… right?Well, Jeremy Kemper (bitsweat) mentioned at the PDX.rb meeting last night that there was a way to keep...
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Small Ruby groups acting small
The Portland Ruby Brigade is kicking into full gear. We actually hit 20 people in our IRC channel this morning! Not bad for a group that has less than 40 people on the mailing list right now. We had...
View ArticleOops, Curt did it again
Let’s take a moment to say thanks to Curt Hibbs.O’Reilly has just posted his fourth article of the year, What is Ruby on Rails.To top it off, he announced the release Instant Rails...
View ArticleRubyGems mirror to kill the wait
Like Dan Peterson, I have setup a mirror of the RubyGems repository on the same server that is an official RubyForge...
View ArticleUsing Named Placeholders in Ruby
Insert Hip Quote Here:“In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people… the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing… “– Nigel Tufnel, Spinal...
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Refactoring Rails... coming soon
As you may have heard earlier, Jeremy Voorhis and I are working on a top-secret project together. We’re going to keep things quiet for just a bit longer while we get an initial site together. In the...
View ArticlePLANET ARGON Core Team Grows +1
A week ago today, we launched the new PLANET ARGON web site. That went great! Then, late last week, Jeremy Voorhis and I announced that we were working on a top-secret project, Refactoring Rails....
View ArticleTry Ruby
I was lucky enough to see this when it was in the alpha-beta-try-that-again stage.Try RubyThat’s right… _why has done it again. You might know him as that d00d who made hoodwink.d or that weird0 who...
View ArticleGo Ruby Go!
DHH wrote that Tim O’Reilly wrote on O’Reilly Radar, Ruby Book Sales Surpass Python.While I was looking at the data, though, I noticed something perhaps more newsworthy: in the same period, Ruby book...
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Rails development in 2006...
It’s been almost a year since Curt Hibbs article, Rolling with Ruby on Rails was published on ONLamp. Since then we’ve witnessed this huge community of talented individuals emerge . Wow. What a...
View ArticleRuby eye for the anti-newbie guy
I was skimming over a few RSS feeds ( blogs.thoughtworks.com ) this morning and came across an entry by Griffin Caprio. He shared his thought on the new book by Chris Pine, Learn to Program and says...
View Articlerbot as a server monitor
Most of you who know the PLANET ARGON team… know that we spend quite a bit of time on IRC interacting with our customes, clients, coworkers, and friends. Quite a bit of our coordination of projects,...
View ArticleProgramming Rails - Alpha Book
Up until today, I have had a small group of individuals (people like harrisj) helping me with the peer review process for my upcoming book, Programming Rails. We’re getting it ready to launch as a...
View ArticleThe Argon Express!
WOW! The Rails community is awesome. Last week, I finally got a chance to get a web site up for The Argon Express and the response has been phenomenal. We have people from Canada, California, North...
View ArticleRubyURL... 5000+ urls in its first year
It seems that I missed the big 5000 for RubyURL. I just noticed that the front page is showing, “5171 happy rubyurls to date.”Oh the memories...http://rubyurl.com
View ArticleThe PLANET ARGON dot ORG project and asset compiling gone wild
InfoQ recently unlaunched their new site that is dedicated to “tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community.” One of the first articles published on the site was...
View ArticleInstall Ruby, Rails, and PostgreSQL on OSX
WARNING: This post contains some outdated instructions. Please read Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, Second Edition. Our Creative Director, Allison Beckwith, picked up a new black...
View ArticleGo Ruby Go!
Allison Beckwith forwarded me an email that she got from Powells.com (our favorite independent bookstore)... check out their top technical books right now!TECH BESTSELLERS“The Ruby Cookbook” by Lucas...
View ArticleRubyisms in Rails
I’m not exactly sure how I failed to post this the other day… but better late than never.Jacob Harris aka harrisj (my favorite Rubyist on the east coast) has finished his ebook, Rubyisms in Rails,...
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The Rails birthday party isn't over!
Ruby on Rails is two years old now and we’ve been hosting Rails applications for over a year and a half now!To mark this occasion, if you sign up with one of our Shared Rails Hosting plans by Friday,...
View ArticleMeet the Cheat
Hey! You’re a cheater!Well, if you’re not… I’m hoping to make one out of you.“A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”—W. C. FieldsI’m a fan of the PDF cheat sheets as I like the...
View ArticleSeattle in late March
I’m going to be hanging out in Redmond, WA. late next month… why? That… I’ll explain at a later date. ;-)What I can say is that I’ll be available on a few evenings if anybody is interested in meeting...
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All the cool kids are doing it... why aren't you?
Josh Knowles just mentioned an article written by David Chelminsky, titled, an introduction to RSpec – Part I. In this article, David introduces you to some of the new language that appeared in some of...
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Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, Second Edition
It’s been just over a year since I posted the article, Install Ruby, Rails, and PostgreSQL on OSX and it still gets quite a bit of traffic. Unfortunately, there have been a few changes in the install...
View ArticleRubyURL bookmarklet 2.0
If you’re using the bookmarklet for RubyURL, you will want to update it with the latest version as there was apparently a bug in the JavaScript and some URLs would fail to redirect properly. Thanks to...
View ArticleRails Development Performance Tip - dev_mode_performance_fixes
When you’re running a Rails application in development mode, you might notice that it takes a little longer for requests to get processed and this is somewhat intentional as the framework is was...
View ArticleUsing MacPorts Ruby and Rails after Upgrading to OS X Leopard
If you previously followed my article, Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, second edition and are now upgrading to OS X Leopard, you’ll want to make a few adjustments to your setup.First...
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Get to Know a Gem: Rak
A few months ago, I posted about an article that showed you how to colorize your grep search results. Since then, I’ve heard people talking about ack, which describes itself as…“a tool like grep, aimed...
View ArticlePGCon 2008 - Call for Papers
Are you using PostgreSQL (the world’s most awesome open-source database server) with Ruby on Rails? Do you have any interesting experiences that you might want to share with an audience? Well, you...
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Installing Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on OS X, Third Edition
Over the past few years, I’ve helped you walk through the process of getting Ruby on Rails up and running on Mac OS X. The last version has been getting a lot of comments related to issues with the new...
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Deploying Rails with an interactive Capistrano recipe to your Boxcar
I wanted to share something that I’ve been meaning to share on here.When we began planning Rails Boxcar, we really want to reduce the amount of work that it took to setup and deploy a VPS for a Rails...
View ArticleThings (in the Rails world) You Don't Yet Understand
This is inspired by a recent post by Seth Godin titled, Things you don’t understand, where he shared a list of things that he probably could understand if he put your mind to it, but doesn’t. I decided...
View ArticleManaging Required Gems on Rails Projects
We’re starting a new project and I’m finding myself adding things to the code base that we’ve done in the past… hence the last few posts. As we’re doing this, I’d like to highlight some of the little...
View ArticleRubyURL meets Zombies!
Last Friday, Greg Borenstein sent me a link to ZombieURL after it got launched. The folks at Bottlecap Labs took RubyURL and threw in Zombies… the rest you’ll have to see for yourself.don’t click this...
View ArticleRuby 1.8.7 on MacPorts causing some problems
It appears that MacPorts has upgraded to Ruby 1.8.7, which is good news if you’re running Rails 2.1… but if you have an older Rails application… it’s not going to work too well.In order to get Ruby...
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Interviewed by Database Radio Podcast
Bob Zurek, the Chief Technology Officer at EnterpriseDB interviewed me a few months ago for their new Database Radio podcast. It finally was published last week. Bob and I had a nice conversation about...
View ArticleGet to know a gem: Ghost
In my last post, Subdomain accounts with Ruby on Rails explaind, I mentioned that you’d need to modify your /etc/hosts file to use custom subdomains for development/testing. Apparently, there is a much...
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Take the Ruby on Rails Hosting in 2009 Survey
Calling all Ruby on Rails developers and system administrators.The team at Planet Argon is hoping to collect some information about how everyone is currently managing the deployment and hosting of...
View ArticleRolling out new updates for Rails Boxcar
Alex, Director of Deployment Services, has been hard at work helping us get our new suite of hosting plans out for Rails Boxcar, a deployment environment that we’ve designed to help you get your Ruby...
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20 articles on Cucumber and a free beverage recipe!
Cucumber has been getting quite a bit of attention in the community and with the new RSpec Book on nearing publication, I predict that by this time next year, it’ll become a household word like...
View ArticleHowdy Rip!
Chris Wanstrath (@defunkt) just posted the following on twitter.“Hello Rip – http://hellorip.com/“The Rip project describes itself as, “an attempt to create a next generation packaging system for...
View ArticleUsing model constants for project sanity
On one of our larger client projects (approx. 160 models and growing…) we have a specific model that we refer to quite a bit throughout our code. This model contains less than 10 records, but each of...
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Installing Ruby on Rails, Passenger, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oh My Zsh on Snow...
Welcome to what seems like my tenth installment (actually, it’s the fourth) of showing you how I setup my development environment on a fresh OSX install. In this case, I’m actually getting a MacBook...
View ArticleSetting Akamai Edge-Control headers with Ruby on Rails
Just a short and sweet little tip.Several months ago we moved one of our clients over to Akamai’s Content Delivery Network (CDN). Ww were previously using a combination of Amazon S3 and CloudFront with...
View ArticleRuby on Rails developers in New York
We’ve had a number of clients in New York over the years. After a recent trip this last fall to visit clients and attend Cultivate we decided that we should spend more of our time in the city.In 2014,...
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Jim Weirich -- Farewell, Friend.
It’s been an odd day. The sort of day where you really don’t know what to say. The only thing you can manage to get out is, “Sigh. I’m going to miss him.”Jim Weirich was building interesting stuff with...
View ArticleTom on Automatic Differentiation
Tom Stuart posted up an excellent article on Automatic Differentiation in Ruby with links to his talk slides and video.
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