Phasion is a Ruby wrapper around pHash library, which can be easily used in Ruby on Rails web applications that do a lot of work with multimedia data.
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New features in Ruby 1.9.2 (and Rails)
This one post won’t be particularly about Ruby on Rails but a Ruby itself. But since, let’s just say Ruby on Rails ‘benefits’ from Ruby I thought it would be nice to share with other Ruby on Rails developers about new ways of hacking things in Rails, running on Ruby 1.9.2 of course.
Clone production server data of your Ruby on Rails application with Porter Gem
Developing Ruby on rails application wouldn’t be that awesome if there weren’t simple and small enhancement tools making our RoR developer life easier. Porter Gem is basically enhancement for Capistrano which adds cap porterroduction task to this deploying tool.
Ruby on Rails acts_as_state_machine gotchas
Greetings to all Ruby on Rails enthusiasts. In this topic I would like to write about a gotcha you may find as a Ruby on Rails developer while using acts_as_state_machine plugin in your Ruby on Rails applications.
BlueRidge – a way to test Javascript in Ruby on Rails
BlueRidge is a Javascript testing plugin for applications written in Ruby in Rails. The plugin gives it’s user – Ruby on Rails developer a support for command-line and in-browser tests just like Rspec does, allowing for convenient testing of Javascript parts of Ruby in Rails web applications.
God – powerful monitoring framework written in Ruby is out!
God is easy to setup and configure, easy to extend monitoring framework written in Ruby. Like I mentioned in one of my previous articles, keeping your server processes and tasks running should be a simple part of your deployment process and this is the power of any programming language or framework.
Silesian Ruby Users Group meeting – 18.06.2010 in Poland
SRUG stands for Silesian Ruby Users Group and is a Ruby on Rails community of programmers and developers that hack websites using Ruby on Rails. Participants were able to listen to the two great presentations about Ruby on Rails and developing in general.
Fog – Cloud computing for Ruby on Rails
Fog is a Ruby gem that gives a web developer control of cloud services through a unified API
Ruby on Rails web application performance gains – thread and fibers
Developers who want their Rack and Rails applications perform better and faster scale their applications by running multiple processes or using threads or… they are just using Ruby 1.9 fibers and event-based EventMachine-driven libraries.
Ruby on Rails and pdf files generation – the available solutions
As a Ruby on Rails developer, in your carrier you’ve probably faced a problem of generating a pdf file. Most probably, as a open source zealot you browsed the web for some appropriate solution.








