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Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example book and screencasts

Brent Sordyl — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:10:13 +0000

Though I’ve worked my way through many Rails books, this is the one that finally made me “get” it. Everything is done very much “the Rails way” a way that felt very unnatural to me before, but now after doing this book finally feels natural. This is also the only Rails book that does test-driven development the entire time, an approach highly recommended by the experts but which has never been so clearly demonstrated before. Finally, by including Git, GitHub, and Heroku in the demo examples, the author really gives you a feel for what it’s like to do a real-world project. The tutorial’s code examples are not in isolation.

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GitHub – Web App Theme

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:39:48 +0000

Web App Theme is a rails generator by Andrea Franz that you can use to generate admin panels quickly. Inspired by cool themes like Lighthouse, Basecamp, RadiantCMS and others, it wants to be an idea to start developing a complete web application layout.

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Upgrading from Rails 2 to Rails 3: Introduction

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:06:21 +0000

This post is kicking off a series that I’m doing about moving your skills and migrating your code to Rails 3. I’ll be sharing some practical insights and covering some pretty in-depth topics as we go along (I’ve got some notes for entries about upgrading plugins, taking advantage of new features like the agnosticism, migrating applications, and so on), but before I go into a lot of specifics, I thought it might be useful to go over some of the high-level philosophical and architectural changes that have gone on in the Rails code between versions 2 and 3.

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Ruby clouds: Engine Yard vs. Heroku

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:06:34 +0000

Engine Yard provides the most extensive control over the application environment, while Heroku makes life easier for developers

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Rack-webconsole, a Rails console inside your browser

Brent Sordyl — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:55:46 +0000

Rack-webconsole is a Rack middleware that enhances your development experience providing a JavaScript-powered bridge to your Ruby application backend.

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activeweb – a framework for building web applications in Java

Brent Sordyl — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:00:48 +0000

Convention over configuration,Highest degree of developer productivity,Adherence to Java standards

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GitHub: Deployinator – deployment framework extracted from Etsy.

Brent Sordyl — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:39:57 +0000

Deployinator is a deployment framework extracted from Etsy.

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Railsonfire – Continuous Integration for Ruby in the Cloud

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:12:03 +0000

We provide simple Continuous Integration for Ruby apps hosted on GitHub. Stop wasting time and money maintaining your own server. In less than two minutes you can go from first login to testing your code.

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Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation As Primary Drivers

Brent Sordyl — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:32:05 +0000

Last year the company announced that both its back-end message queue and Tweet storage had been re-written in Scala, and in the spring of 2010 the search team at Twitter started to rewrite the search engine. As part of the effort, Twitter changed the search storage from MySQL to a real-time version of Lucene. More recently the team announced that they were replacing the Ruby on Rails front-end for search with a Java server they called Blender. This change resulted in a 3x drop in search latencies.

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Rails Admin Interface Generators

Brent Sordyl — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:26:53 +0000

Typus, ActiveAdmin, RailsAdmin

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