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A quick note on dependencies in Ruby on Rails projects
We explain what our ‘minimal dependency policy’ in projects exactly means.
Boss guide to installing Ruby on Rails
Guide for your boss to install a Ruby on Rails project on his MacBook.
How to add Notification Center support to your website or app
The system-wide notifications in OS X Mountain Lion are also available from Safari and Chrome.
Functional View and Controller testing with RubyMotion
Eloy Durán recently wrapped up a consulting project for RubyMotion.
Archive
2012
2011
- The iPad is great for customer surveys, questionnaires and other promotional use
- Using Amiok to quickly check if configured sites on a shared Apache server respond properly
- Eloy will be speaking at SecondConf 2011
- Appsterdam Guru Session: Test Driven Development
- How to prevent jagged edges when using CSS transformations in Mobile Safari
- RubyKaigi 2011
- Four days for Appsterdam, Day 4: Roundup
- Four days for Appsterdam, Day 3: What we’ve done so far and simple solutions
- Five Languages in Five Days
- Four days for Appsterdam, Day 2: Twitter authentication and the member form
- Four days for Appsterdam, Day 1: Requirements, wireframes and Test-Driven Development
2010
- The Meaning of HTML5
- How to work around the Mobile Safari image resource limit
- We won the Ruby And Rails 2010 Rumble with Miner
- Help them find the login form
- Security through clarity: keeping secrets in a multi-server Amazon EC2 setup
- Nap now with TLS client certificate support
- Move from MD5 to bcrypt hashed password without bothering users
- Ruby 1.9 character encoding field notes
- February 4th: ‘Morning coffee’ meeting in Amsterdam
2009
- Ordering and comparing text in Rails and MySQL
- Broach: a Campfire API implementation for Ruby
- Mocha loading order
- Ruby en Rails 2009 Rumble: Apprise
- Highly interactive JavaScript widgets
- New OS, more pane! (Passenger preference pane v1.3)
- Ruby on OS X Conference Videos
- At the office
- Collecting with Moksi
- Ruby on OS X Conference registration now open
- Stubbing with Moksi
- Rails 2.3 is faster
- MySQL character encoding trouble pre Rails 1.2
- Nested attributes in Rails 2.3!
- Nested models and forms
2008
- Passenger preference pane v1.2
- Adding development gem dependencies to a rails application.
- Unichars 0.2 released
- Free result after using ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute
- Testing randomness
- ActiveSupport::Multibyte Updated
- Passenger preference pane v1.1
- Berlin 2008
- Aliasing dangerous methods in your tests
- Buying an Openmoko Neo FreeRunner
- The last year or so
- Putting the pane back into deployment
- Amsterdam.rb meeting
- Ruby Banter #011
- Ruby Banter #010
- Testing multiple calls to an object
- Ruby Banter #009
- Passenger on 64-bit Mac OS X
- Using Passenger on OS X for Rails development
- May 6th: Rails ‘Morning coffee’ meeting in Amsterdam
- Welcoming Eloy Duran
- Fast and easy Rails hosting with Phusion Passenger
- Euruko 2008
- Ruby Banter #008
- Personnel Changes
2007
- Ruby on Rails 2.0
- December 20th: ‘Morning coffee’ meeting in Amsterdam
- Ruby Banter #007
- Sam Aaron joins the Fingertips team
- Effectively using rescue_from
- Italy, baby!
- Patching Rails Edge to stay bug free
- Ruby Banter #006
- Good news: Online shopping not as scary anymore
- Ruby Banter #005
- October 11th: Another ‘morning coffee’ meeting in Amsterdam
- Gear for sale
- We're at RailsConf Europe 2007
- Hackfest interview
- Ruby Banter #004
- Quick Fix for acts_as_paranoid
- Ruby Banter #003
- Helpers are for small snippets of code
- Why fake a link?
- Ruby Banter #002
- Watching QuickTime on XP
- July 5th: Next ‘morning coffee’ meeting in Amsterdam
- Ruby Banter #001
- RubyEnRails 2007
- Flex can't do REST
- Someone forgot to h()
- Best tech ad. Ever.
- Ruby Banter – Exploring the Fringes of Ruby
- Code to Test Ratio Showdown
- We're hiring again
- Testing with attachment_fu
- Quick ActiveSupport::Multibyte glossary trick
- OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError with SOAP4r and the Rubyforge gem
- URL encoded semicolons, HTTP Authentication and Safari
- Using OpenStruct as mock for ActiveRecord
- Accepting regional information
- Things have changed
- Ruby and MySQL encoding flakiness
- Seen this?
- Crap web video
- Please welcome Norbert Crombach
- Third ‘morning coffee’ meeting in Amsterdam
- Dynamic forms with the repetition model
- Customer choice
- Obama makes me want to listen
- Logos redesigned for Web 2.0
- Rails 1.2 Released
- Fingertips is hiring
2006
- UnSpun encoding problems
- Adaptive planning
- HTTP Authentication in OS X is broken for RESTful Rails
- Getting Real, the book now free
- Design is how it works
- Rijnboutt Van der Vossen Rijnboutt on the shortlist
- Screencast Scripting
- Nice meeting, short video
- ActiveSupport::MultiByte
- The Proxy Pattern in Ruby
- Second ‘morning coffee’ meeting in Amsterdam
- Extensive testing
- URoR 2: KCODE
- URoR 1: Set the Content-Type
- HTTP Digest Authentication
- His computer is a SGI O2
- Fcgimon updated
- MySQL NULL gotcha
- We approve too
- Rails ‘show and tell’ podcast
- Rails ‘show and tell’ photos
- Discussing Unicode for Ruby
- Rails ‘show and tell’ talks
- An excellent and pragmatic proposal for easier Unicode support in Rails
- Embedding applications with Javascript
- Embracing and extending the feed icon
- Rails ‘show and tell’ meeting
- Call it what it is
- iDo!
- Pocket calculator retro
- Basic Authentication for Camping
- Rhubarb on Rails
- RFP Buzzword bingo
- Please take my money
- Lowering the TCO
- Just a contractor
- Greenpeace on Rails
- Lots of Rails developers having coffee
- Rails ‘morning coffee’ meeting FAQ
- Handheld stylesheet
- Rails ‘morning coffee’ meeting in Amsterdam
- Monitoring and managing fcgi processes using fcgimon
- Pair programming
- Attaching files to new messages
- Rails plugins released
- Screencasts of recent work
- Validating feeds in functional tests
- Rails encoding trouble in the wild
- Chad Fowler on Monkeypatching
- Encoding in Rails
- Poking at Java programmers
- What is your Textmate serial number?
- Lazily sweeping the whole Rails page cache
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