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34. How to generate diagrams for models in Rails projects

In this screencast I will show you how to generate diagrams for the models in your Rails projects. This is helpful to get a big picture view of an existing Rails app.

Better Reporting with Sparklines

Three pens for five dollars, black, red and blue, recommended by scholars. —Buck 65

Two events from January, unrelated but relevant:

"How to Start a Project" or "Chaotic Project Management, part 2"

How to start a project?

Get a reference point.
Whatever it is.

Good chances are that the project is based on an emotional desire. No one wrote a Specification. Some one knows one part of the project, some one else knows another. There's no one 'oracle', no one place which holds the whole information in an ordinated manner. No constant reference point which one can work by, sometimes no one to ask either.

Scrapi enhancements

We have been using ruby library Scrapi quite a lot for HTML Scraping in QuarkRank and other projects. Most of the times, I want to extract/scrape specific information from a page and directly dump it into the database. There were a few processes which were regularly repeated in my code, so as to make my code more DRY, I have enhanced Scrapi so that manipulations of extracted information becomes easier.

Sydney Rubinius Sprint

EngineYard are really making use of their 3.5 mil and sponsoring the Sydney Rubinius Sprint, a full hack-day-slash-workshop run by Marcus Crafter and Dylan Egan on Sunday March 9th.

Adapting Ambitiously

It’s funny, really. All these people walking around, talking about Ambition. “Oh, Ambition? Yeah, pretty cool.” “Ambition? Impedance mismatch.” “I’m happy with SQL-92 the way it is, thank you very much.” Outrageous!

In it for the long haul

Announcing RailsConf '08 today, I stopped to think about that by the time this conference rolls around, I will have been working on Ruby on Rails for five years. Wow. There are so many memories from this wild ride that it's at once both hard to fathom that it's been so long and yet it feels like I've been doing it forever. Time can be funny like that.

The Statesman on Rails

At the January meeting of Austin on Rails, we had a couple visitors from the Austin American-Statesman newspaper (which everyone around here just calls “The Statesman”), covering Rails’ mindshare and market penetration in the city for an article published today.

Rails 2.0 Step by Step (part 2)

This is the second part of my series.
Part 1 is here.
Thanks for all of the great comments and help.

RubyGarden Archives: Scripting Excel

Editor's Note: Once upon a time, there was a website named RubyGarden.org, which contained many helpful links and articles. The website has recently dropped off the face of the earth. The following "Scripting Excel" article was salvaged from the Google cache and is provided here in its entirety.

José Valim and Carl Lerche joins Rails core | Rails Fire

José Valim and Carl Lerche joins Rails core

Please give a warm welcome to José Valim and Carl Lerche as they both join the Rails core team. Both guys have been key contributors to the Rails 3 development and both have made it into the top 10 of all-time Rails contributors. It’s an honor to have them on the team!