GemAWeek Episode 9 - Tourbus
Website load testing tool in Ruby, with the ability to “unload a busload of tourists” on a website, each with the ability to trace through complex application paths.
GemAWeek Design Contest
Me: Guess what.
You: What?
Me: GemAWeek is having a site design contest!
You: Holy crap, that’s awesome! I want in on this one.
Me: Wait just a second. There are a couple of things you need to be privy to first.
You: Ugh. Lay it on me.
Me: The rules:
- The contest will run until 8 September 2011 and unless I have not chosen a winner.
- Submissions should be in the form of Photoshop PSD or Fireworks PNG files (sorry GIMP people but I ain’t dealing with compatibility issues). Please make sure to use layers and label them semantically.
- If you want to improve the logo, please get my permission first.
- All submissions will be property of GemAWeek and may not be used on any other site. I reserve the right to use/modify the layout as I wish.
You: Sounds great. What’s in it for me?
Me: You get ad space (300x250) for the life of the layout. You also get priority if/when we want to update the layout. I will also give you a mention and mad props for three shows after the new site goes live.
You: Cool. Where do I send my entry.
Me: All entries should be sent to gemaweek@gemaweek.com. Please use the subject line “<name> - GemAWeek Design Contest”. Good Luck!
GemAWeek Episode 8 - Rubinius Day
This week’s episode is a little different. In celebration of Rubinius Day, I wanted to show how easy it is to create a gem and used Rubinius to do so. This is based on Steve Klabnik’s presentation called Teachmehowtomakearubygem.
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Update: Just realized this should be Episode 8 instead of 9. I apologize for any confusion and have updated the post.
GemAWeek Episode 7 - Twitter
A Ruby wrapper for the Twitter REST and Search APIs
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GemAWeek Episode 6 - Omnisocial
A Rails 3 engine for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn logins using OmniAuth
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GemAWeek Episode 5 - RABL
RABL (Ruby API Builder Language) is a Rails and Padrino ruby templating system for generating JSON and XML.
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GemAWeek Episode 4 - Navigasmic
Semantic navigation; a semantic way to build beautifully simple navigation structures in Rails.
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Technical Difficulties
I haven’t published a new episode yet because I’ve had recording issues. I’m trying to make sure the quality is good and feel that I need to start over this episode from scratch. Should have it up later this week.
Thanks!
GemAWeek Episode 3 - Capybara
I did this screencast a couple weeks ago as an audition for Code School. It’s a bit longer than the other GemAWeek episodes but I wanted to include it on here. Capybara aims to simplify the process of integration testing Rack applications, such as Rails, Sinatra or Merb. Capybara simulates how a real user would interact with a web application. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and currently comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in. HtmlUnit and env.js are supported through external gems.
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GemAWeek Episode 2 - Active Admin
Active Admin is a framework for creating administration style interfaces. It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.
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Update 14 June 2011:
In the video I hinted that this could be used with Mongoid. As of right now, that feature is on the roadmap but is not there yet.
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