Tools

Vagrant: EC2-Like Virtual Machine Building and Provisioning from Ruby

Vagrant is a Ruby-based tool for building and deploying virtualized development environments.

New Relic RPM Officially Supports Rack and Sinatra – Finally!

NewRelic_inline.pngNew Relic's RPM, an application performance monitoring and reporting system, has today announced it has added full support for Sinatra and Rack-based Ruby applications to its traditionally Rails-centric service.

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!

Rackamole: Rack-Based Monitoring For Your Ruby Web Apps

rackamole.pngRackamole (GitHub repo) is a Rack application that lets you to monitor the interactions between users and your own Rack-based application (e.g. any Rails or Sinatra app).

Amp: A Revolution in Source Version Control (in Ruby!)

amp.png Amp is a new Ruby based project that aims to "change the way we approach VCS" (version control systems).

Racksh: A Rails-Console-A-Like for Rack-Based Ruby Apps

Have you ever yearned for something like Rails's script/console or Merb's merb -i in your other Rack based apps? If so, then Marcin Kulik's racksh, inspired by Heroku's console, might be for you.

Riot: for fast, expressive and focused unit tests

JustinRiot is a new Ruby test framework by Justin Knowlden that focuses on faster testing. Justin was frustrated with his slow running test suites, despite employing techniques such as using factories, mocks and avoiding database access. He realized that a slow-running suite makes one reluctant to run it or expand it - not good.

Boson: A Next Generation Task Framework for Ruby

boson.pngBoson is a new command/task framework for Ruby by Gabriel Horner (of Hirb fame).

Tools of the Trade

Hardware

  • Macbook Pro: 17", 2 intel @ 2.4 GHz, 4GB RAM
  • Secondary display: 26" Visio Computer Display
  • Wireless Logitech LX8 Mouse
  • Wireless Apple Keyboard
  • Philips Noise canceling headphones
Software

Ruby IDE RubyMine 2.0 Beta Released

rubymine2.pngRubyMine is a Ruby and Rails IDE (for Windows, OS X, and Linux) by JetBrains, the guys behind the popular Java IDE IntelliJ IDEA.

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