John Nunemaker

Harmony: JavaScript And A DOM Environment In Ruby

harmony.pngHarmony, from Martin Aumont, is a new Ruby DSL for executing JavaScript and DOM-using code from within Ruby apps. Why's that cool? Well, it enables you to build your own Ruby-level unit tests for JavaScript code within your Web applications - everything can be under one set of test suites!

Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks

Strong statement, eh? The more I work with Mongo the more I am coming around to this way of thinking. I tell no lie when I say that I now approach Mongo with the same kind of excitement I first felt using Rails. For some, that may be enough, but for others, you probably require more than a feeling to check out a new technology.

Friendly: Easy Schemaless “NoSQL” Data Storage with MySQL in Ruby

friendly.png Friendly is a new Ruby ORM (a la ActiveRecord) that lets you easily use NoSQL ideas on regular database engines, such as MySQL.

TweetStream: Use the Twitter Streaming API from Ruby

twitter-stream.png A couple of weeks ago, popular micro-blogging service Twitter unveiled a beta "streaming API." Twitter's nature means they get hammered with polling requests so they've begun to experiment with the concept of streaming relevant data within a single H

Return from the Ruby Hoedown

Jesse Newland and I are back from the 2009 Ruby Hoedown, the South’s regional Ruby conference. We both had a blast! The talks were all enjoyable and very informative, and we had an awesome time hanging out with folks like John Nunemaker, Steve Smith, Matt Todd, and many, many others.

Paperclip and MongoMapper

I started a new project recently that deals with a lot of imported data, so it seemed like a good excuse to try out MongoDB and MongoMapper. The imported data also has a associated images, so I wanted to get the Paperclip plugin working with my Mongo-based models. Fortunately for me, it actually didn’t take too much work to pull out the ActiveRecord-specific bits. Here’s what I did…

TwitterLand: 5 Twitter Data APIs In A Single Gem

twitter.pngTwitterLand (Github repository) is a single Ruby library that packages up access to, currently, 5 different Twitter-related data services.

Getting Started with MongoDB and Ruby

mongo mapper MongoDB a is a high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database written in C++. It's sort of a cross between scalable key/value stores and traditional functionality-rich relational databases.

Community Highlights: Ruby Heroes

This week I’m happy to tell you about a new set of articles which will be appearing here on the Rails blog called “Community Highlights”. This new series will feature people/projects/sites from the Rails community that may deserve a little extra recognition.

This week, we’re going to start with a few people who received awards on stage at Railsconf 2009, this years Ruby Heroes.

Brian Helmkamp

The Rails Conference 2009

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RAILSCONF 2009

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