CodeConf: GitHub Issues 2.0
Hey everyone! I’m at CodeConf, and I just watched a lightning talk by Kyle Neath: he just pushed GitHub Issues 2.0 to production in front of us! Check it out, you can now add milestones and assign...
View Articleruby-metrics: it pretty much explains itself
One of the hottest talks at day 1 of CodeConf was Coda Hale’s talk on metrics. At the end, he mentioned that while this was on the JVM, he’d love to see a similar package for Ruby. So, naturally,...
View ArticleOther notes from CodeConf
Even though I’m working on notes for CodeConf, I figured I’d link you to some other notes as well. Check out Jeff Remer’s Code Conf 2011 notes, and I’ll post my notes for day 2 after all the talks are...
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You (yes, you!) should contribute to open source
If you read this blog, you obviously care about open source. If you’ve never contributed to an open source project, though, you might have some cold feet about it. So, inspired by the Ruby 1.9.3...
View ArticleCoffeebeans: extra CoffeeScript helpers for Rails 3.1
If you didn’t catch DHH’s keynote at Railsconf, he made a strong assertion: CoffeeScript is here to stay. You don’t have to use it if you don’t want to, but by default, Rails 3.1 will generate...
View ArticleNokogiri 1.5.0 has been released!
If you’re a Rubyist, and you have to work with XML, then you know and love Nokogiri. It’s a great way to parse all kinds of XML and HTML documents. Today, the Nokogiri team has a big announcement:...
View Articleforever – daemon μ-framework in Ruby
Apparently, ‘forever’ is a great name for a project that daemonizes things. This isn’t the forever that we covered two weeks ago, but it is similar. EDIT: Davide has changed the name to ‘foreverb’, to...
View Articleruby-patches: a repository for custom Ruby modifications
It might seem crazy to you, but sometimes, people just want to add wacky features to their programming language of choice. Sometimes, they’re useful, sometimes, they’re just fun. Any time you’re...
View ArticleRails 3.1 Hackfest next weekend on IRC and IRL!
NEXT weekend this weekend, there’s going to be a hackfest for Rails 3.1! If you’ve wanted to contribute to Rails in the past but you were too intimidated, now you have a chance to get involved, meet...
View ArticleJava SE 7 has been released
Oracle has released Java 7 today. This is a big release, but not so much for Java: it’s more about the JVM itself. The biggest change that everyone will love is the addition of InvokeDynamic, which...
View ArticleBDSM: Yes, Bash is a Real Programming Language
Wayne Seguin is the only Rubyist I know that’s not really known for writing Ruby. When writing RVM, Wayne built it in Bash shell scripts, and as it grew, it got big and unwieldy. Wayne, being the kind...
View ArticleDeployinator – Deploy with Style, by Etsy
I am super excited to make this post. One of my favorite engineering blogs is Code as Craft. Etsy is one of my favorite startups, they’ve got cool people working there, they help people make and sell...
View ArticleSprockets 2.0 is out!
After 15 beta releases, Sprockets has finally released the big 2.0. Why’s this a big deal? Well, Sprockets is the gem that’s powering the new asset pipeline in Rails 3.1. It can automatically process,...
View ArticleColor Picker Pro for Mac
It’s always neat to see desktop applications go open source. Oscar Del Ben has done just that with Color Picker Pro; it’s a desktop app that lets you, well, pick colors. If you’ve ever wondered how...
View ArticleBundler 1.1.rc is out!
If you do any work with Ruby and Rails, then you’ve (probably) grown to love Bundler, an awesome gem that resolves the dependencies for all your other gems. The bundler team has been working hard on a...
View ArticleRailsOneClick – an easy installer for Rails
Apparently, Rails is really hard to install on Mac OSX. It can be easy to forget once you’re an experienced dev, but there’s been a rash of new projects to make it easier if you’re not. Yehuda Katz is...
View ArticleQuiet Assets: Silence Asset Pipeline Messages
The Rails 3 Asset Pipeline is super powerful, but it has one thing about it that’s truly annoying: tons of logger output in development mode. Here’s a simple Rails app’s log output when hitting an...
View ArticlePostgres.app: Postgres for the Mac
The ever-awesome @mattt has released Postgres.app. From the README: Postgres.app is the easiest way to get started with PostgreSQL on the Mac. Open the app, and you have a PostgreSQL server ready and...
View Articlefr_public: Demoscene tools
Hey everyone! It’s Friday, and a good friend of mine (@DeMarko) just tipped me off to a really interesting repository. If you’re not aware of the Demoscene, you should be. Basically, they make awesome...
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sprocketnes is a work-in-progress NES emulator in Rust
I’ve been really getting into Rust lately, and while it’s still quite young, there’s lots of neat things going on with this language. One fun project that popped up on my radar this week was...
View ArticleNew security releases for Rails: Rails 3.2.12, 3.1.11, and 2.3.17
This year has been a rocky start for Rails, with a bunch of security upgrades that have been important to perform. The end result is a more secure Rails for us all, however, so while it’s annoying,...
View Articles3_multipart: Multi-part file uploads straight to S3 for Rails
There’s some things that every web application needs, and some they don’t need very often. File uploads are closer to the first category than the second; thinking back, most of my apps needed to upload...
View ArticleA Rust backend for Ragel
Yesterday, I read that Rust’s bindings to Ragel have been updated to work with Rust HEAD, so I figured I’d tell you! Here’s erickt’s repository. What is Ragel? Ragel is a DSL that’s used to produce...
View ArticleNginx gains support for WebSockets
I saw this commit land a few days ago, and now it’s out in a release. nginx 1.3.13 has support for proxying WebSockets requests. What does that mean? Well, let’s look at the commit that introduced the...
View ArticleOn GitHub and Workflows
One of the best things about git is that it allows you to do whatever you want. One of the worst things about git is that it allows you to do whatever you want. This has lead to a bunch of different...
View Articlehalbert: a JavaScript implementation of HAL
Building an awesome hypermedia API, and using HAL to do it? You might want to check out halbert. Halbert is pretty easy to install and use, just do this: $ npm install halbert And then, in your code:...
View ArticleGit 1.8.2 released
I’m pretty sure that most of you who read The Changelog care about git. Well, yesterday, 1.8.2 was released! Of course, linking to the commit that actually did the release isn’t mega-helpful, so here’s...
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log2viz: Logs as Data for Performance Visibility
Today, Heroku announced log2viz: a way to visualize your log data. Here’s what it looks like: This is for one of my applications, running on Heroku. It gives you real-time updates; these graphs...
View Articleotr.js: Off The Record Protocol in JavaScript
Before we talk about otr.js, we have to talk about crypto in JavaScript. It’s important to discuss issues with cryptography, because bugs are much more severe than in ‘normal’ code. If your Rails app...
View ArticleScorched: a new Ruby web framework
Disclaimer: this is a story about Ruby web frameworks, and I have commit bit to Rails Ruby has a long tail of web frameworks. There’s the big dogs, Rails and Sinatra, there’s some smaller frameworks...
View ArticleSpring: pre-load your Rails apps
When you’re working on a big app, Rails’ startup time can be slow. It’s a hard problem, and there’s been a lot of work done in Ruby and Rails to help solve this pain. Rails Core member Jon Leighton has...
View Articlerust-antlr: An ANTLR grammar for Rust
I just heard about a neat new project: rust-antlr. Basically, it’s an ANTLR grammar for Rust. Unfortunately, if you’re not a compiler nerd, you may not know what that means. At the highest level of...
View Articlesinatra-asset-pipeline: Sprockets for Sinatra
I remember being really excited for Rails 3.1, and that’s because it was going to have ‘the asset pipeline,’ helping us manage the assets our application needed. I also remember being so excited by it,...
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Rustyhex – a roguelike in Rust
I love roguelikes. My first ever interaction with a computer was in a related genre: interactive fiction. As soon as I saw Adventure, I was hooked on computers forever. Then, in college, I discovered...
View ArticlePostgres preps for a big security release
UPDATE: Reminder: Upgrade your Postgres today! Yesterday, I became aware of this email to the PostgresSQL-hackers email list. The email states that there is a very serious security release coming up...
View Articlefast_blank: String#blank? in C
Sam Saffron is part of the team doing Discourse, an open-source Rails-based discussion platform. He’s been kicking all kinds of ass all over Ruby-land lately, but I wanted to share a specific bit of...
View Articlesimple-web-server: A web server in Rust
There’s a project that I’d been meaning to try with Rust, and that’s write a basic web server. I kept putting it off, and when I saw the 0.6 rc land recently, I said I’d give it a try to play with 0.6....
View ArticleHelios: a server side for your iOS app
Today, the always-impressive Mattt released a new project: Helios. Helios is an open-source framework that provides essential backend services for iOS apps, from data synchronization and user accounts...
View ArticleToday is a big day for Rust
Lots of great stuff in the Rust world today. Rust 0.6 First of all, Rust 0.6.0 has been released! You can find the announcement here. As always, Rust works on Mac, Windows, and Linux. To get it, do...
View ArticleReminder: Upgrade your Postgres today!
Last week, I told you all about an incoming security patch for Postgres. Well, today, it’s here. Please check out this page and upgrade your Postgres. As the Postgres team says, ‘This is the first...
View Articlecsscss parses your CSS and shows your duplicated declarations
Yesterday, a neat little gem called csscss celebrated a 1.0 release! csscss will parse any CSS or Sass file you give it and let you know which rulesets have duplicated declarations. It’s super easy to...
View ArticleHyperresource: a hypermedia API client for Ruby
Any of you who know me aren’t surprised about me posting this story: it’s right up my alley! Basically, hyperresource is intended to be a general hypermedia client. What’s that mean? It can work with...
View Articlezero.rs: write Rust without a runtime
Late last week, pcwalton released Zero.rs, a way to write Rust code without a runtime. What does that mean? Well, normally, a runtime defines all of the basic features a language supports. For example,...
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rustboot: a tine 32 bit kernel written in Rust
Hot off the heels of the zero.rs release, charliesome has written a tiny, tiny kernel in Rust. It is, of course, incredibly fully featured: Ha! But, more seriously, this program that writes the screen...
View Articlerust.ko: a minimal Linux kernel module for Rust
Hot off the heels of zero.rs and rustboot comes rust.ko. rust.ko is a minimal Linux kernel module for Rust. What does this mean? Well, from the Kernel Programming Guide, Modules are pieces of code that...
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angolmois: a music game ported to Rust
Angolmois is “a BM98-like rhythm game”. It looks like this: Its author, lifthrasiir, has ported it to Rust. This is really cool for a few reasons: It’s possibly one of the bigger Rust codebases that...
View ArticleA startup template for Ruby on Rails 4 applications
Way back in January, I wrote a blog post called “Rails has two default stacks”. In it, I discussed how people like to customize the defaults that Ruby on Rails gives you. Your company might prefer...
View ArticleJSON API now has a MIME type
If you hadn’t heard, JSON API is a format that myself and Yehuda Katz have been persuing to help standardize APIs. It came out of the work done on ember-data and active_model_serializers. We’ve been...
View ArticlePrototype JSON APIs with Fortune.js
If you hadn’t heard, JSON API is a format for building awesome APIs on top of JSON. You can see other posts tagged with JSON API here. Recently, a new project related to JSON API was released:...
View Articlenphysics: a 2D/3D physics engine for Rust
As you all know, I’m paying close attention to Mozilla’s Rust programming language, and I’m always really excited when new stuff comes out written in it. That’s why it’s neat to see nphysics: a 2 and...
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