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A week ago i discovered on twitter a useful site.

http://www.railsfire.com/

Up to date, with fresh and interesting links. Add this to your feeds.

Asset_packager, boost your rails app with a simply plugin

Description

When it comes time to deploy your new web application, instead of sending down a dozen javascript and css files full of formatting and comments, this Rails plugin makes it simple to merge and compress JavaScript and CSS down into one or more files, increasing speed and saving bandwidth.

When in development, it allows you to use your original versions and retain formatting and comments for readability and debugging.

Apache, Capistrano, Git, MySQL and Passenger on a Debian system

Introduction

This guide will walk you through setting up Apache, Capistrano, Git, MySQL, and Passenger (mod_rails) on a Debian 4.0 to run Rails applications. The instructions are designed specifically for a fresh Debian 4.0 install, so they may or may not work on an existing installation or a different distribution.

Where is extract filter in Photoshop cs4?

I did some research online and apparently you need to it’s part of a package that requires a separate install.

The following plug-ins and associated files are included in this package:

Simple permissions for a rails app, powered by Thoughtbot

I report i nice post written by John Nunemaker from railstips.org

railstips.org/2009/4/20/how-to-add-simple-permissions-into-your-simple-app-also-thoughtbot-rules

Nginx and Phusion Passenger

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Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) Memory Management

I’ve been using Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) for about a month to run a production and staging machine with a Ruby on Rails app. So far things have been going really well. Installation was smooth and it’s been really peppy.

Render Partial if exist else render constant partial

I have found a little solution

render :partial => "testfooter" rescue test="foobar"
    if test == "foobar"
    render :partial =>

Cambiare l'editor di default di Git

La cosa e` abbastanza semplice: 

git config core.editor "nano"


17 Videos Covering Basic Ruby Techiques

Tekniqal.com is a site offering a series of 17 Basic Ruby tutorials in screencast form. In a way, it's like

railscasts, but focusing solely on basic Ruby techniques. So far there are 17 tutorials covering basic topics from whitespace and identifiers through to symbols and hashes, but it looks like there'll be more in future.