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Gibberish: Simple Localization Plugin for Rails
June 9, 2007
Gibberish is a Rails plugin developed by Chris Wanstrath which provides a hassle-free text translation capability for your Rails applications. The first application to use it is the Beast forum system.
Most localization tools use either key-string or original-message based translation. Gibberish strikes the balance between these techniques. Consider:
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3 Fresh Presentations from RailsConf 2007
June 9, 2007
Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up was a presentation by Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent. The PDF of the presentation has a mega 192 slides and touches on a ton of interesting stuff about scaling and deployment (all the way down to hash based filing).
Angels & Daemons (PDF …[Via: Link]
Andrzej Krzywda has put together a solid, 15 point tutorial on how to build a Rails application from the ground up using Test Driven Development (TDD) techniques. This is pure gold because so few of the books and “how to build a blog in 5 minutes” type articles bother to …[Via: Link]
ZenTest 3.6.0: Turbocharge Your Tests
June 9, 2007
ZenTest is a bundle of useful time-saving tools created by Ryan Davis to make the process of testing your applications faster and more effective:
zentest automatically writes your missing code based on simple naming rules.
unit_diff compares expected results from actual results and allows you to quickly see exactly what is wrong.
autotest …[Via: Link]
May’s Ruby Jobs Update
June 9, 2007
Looking at the stats from the Ruby Inside Job Board, the best position, so far, got 114 applicants from Ruby Inside readers. Wow! So if you want your job to be seen by thousands of hardcore Ruby and Rails developers, consider posting. Only one new job made it to the …[Via: Link]
Aptana IDE has been since inception targeted to Ajax developers and power web designers, with advanced features such as JavaScript debugging and built-in searchable reference manuals for many web standards (in addition to JavaScript, DOM, CSS, and HTML, it also bundles documentation for several Ajax libraries including Scriptaculous.)
With the merge …[Via: Link]
Some Fun New Ruby and Rails Videos
June 9, 2007
Standout Jobs Need a Ruby Guru
Standout Jobs are looking for a Ruby guru, and they’ve put together a whole video explaining who they are and what they’re looking for. I think more people should be posting job ads in this way.. it makes me feel a lot better informed about …[Via: Link]
ar_mailer: Batch Send ActionMailer Messages
June 9, 2007
ar_mailer is a Ruby gem by Eric Hodel (a ZenTest core developer) that works with Rails to store outgoing e-mail messages into the database for later delivery by a separate ar_sendmail process. This is handy because delivering e-mails can take a long time if performed before rendering pages, especially if …[Via: Link]
#rails-contrib and rubyonrails-stacks
May 22, 2007
RailsConf gave birth to a number of new outlets for sub-communities within the Rails family:
#rails-contrib is a new IRC channel on freenode for contributors to Rails. The Rails core team will hang out there to answer questions, discuss patches, and generally interact with anyone doing implementation work for the Rails framework. It’s not meant for general chatter, though. Or for how to use the framework. It’s strictly for implementational issues and the contributors working on those.
rubyonrails-stacks is a new forum to discuss how we can get standardized set of images going for Rails that can be deployed on any Xen host or even EC2. I posted a welcome with more details on the forum.
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