Author:
derek
Metaprogramming is your secret identical twin that likes doing all of the things you don’t. Need to take out the trash? Just tell your twin. Need to program in Java? Send your twin an email.
Metaprogramming, defined as writing code that writes code by Why The Lucky Stiff, makes scaffolding, associations, validations, and the many magical parts of Rails possible.…
Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
UPDATE: rails_cron is no longer available, and daemon_generator has moved. BackgrounDRB has gone through a major rewrite, and I’ve got a chapter on Background Processing in The Rails Way by Obie Fernandez. Thanks to Chris Johnson and Douglas F Shearer for the updated information.…
Author:
derek
The demo is up – take Heartbeat for a spin.
It’s a single-web page control panel that lets you run any rake task within your application’s directory, from deployment to tests to migrations. If you can write a rake task, Heartbeat can execute it!…
Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
Not only were we a Rails Day 2006 Sponsor, but we also competed.
Our entry is called Heartbeat. It’s a simple, elegant, web-based tool for monitoring and maintaining Rails-based applications. From the Heartbeat home page:
Monitor the uptime of URLs and run your application’s rake tasks.…
Author:
derek
Auto-Complete is a great tool when it provides possible results BEFORE you finish typing. Unfortunately, using Rails’s included AJAX helpers to query the database as you type often results in a large delay before matches are returned.
However, there is a lightning-quick option: pre-fetch the results in a Javascript array.…
Author:
derek
Another San Francisco Ruby Meetup. Another record-breaking attendance mark (has any Ruby group in the world brought together more than 110 people?).
Here’s the slides from my presentation on how Highgroove Studios molds its team and development process to utilize Ruby on Rails:
Author:
Charles Brian Quinn
Just to prove how much we love Rails Day 2006, we’re sponsoring the event. Slingshot Hosting is going to be giving away 6 months of our Dedicated Plan – that’s some serious Rails Business Hosting that a Rails Day Winner could really use.…
Author:
james
I’ll be giving a Rails presentation to OK.rb this coming Tuesday (June 13th). Anyone in the OKC area is more than welcome to attend.
My talk will be a tour of some live production code HighGroove has generated for clients. I’ll cover sections of interest from three different applications.…
Author:
derek
Atlanta Technology Executive (and recent friend) Scott Burkett blogged recently on what Atlanta can do to emulate the entrepreneurial environment of Silicon Valley. Having lived in both areas, I’ve had a chance to meet and work with many remarkable entrepreneurs.
I think Scott hit many of the comparisons between Atlanta and Silicon Valley on the head.…
Author:
Aaron Hillegass
As a consultant, I am working on a piece of software for an engineering firm. The engineers would like an easy way to write plugins for the application. I thought to myself, “Myself, perhaps the plugins could be written using Python.” So, I downloaded the latest version of PyObjC and installed it.…