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Fikus: Deploying Padrino to Engine Yard AppCloud

Padrino and Engine Yard AppCloud
Engine Yard AppCloud is a great platform for deploying Ruby on Rails applications quickly and easily. It's not only good for Rails, but it also makes it just as easy to deploy any application using Rack or Rack-based frameworks like Sinatra.

I'm a big fan of Sinatra and use it for both internal and personal projects.

Ruby 1.9.2 Released

Yuki (Yugui) Sonoda has just announced the release of the stable version of Ruby 1.9.2!
Ruby 1.9.2 has been released. This is the newest release of Ruby 1.9 series. Ruby 1.9.2 is mostly compatible with 1.9.1, except the following changes:

Building “skinny daemons” in Ruby

http://labs.headlondon.com/2010/07/skinny-daemons/ (or on Ruby Inside)

Nestful: A Simple Ruby HTTP/REST Client Library

Nestful is a simple HTTP/REST client library for Ruby, developed by Alex MacCaw (of Juggernaut) fame. Nestful allows you to consume basic Web services easily, usually in a single line of code.

A Free Course on Sinatra

A Free Course on Sinatra
To celebrate the release of Sinatra 1.0 RubyLearning announces the first-ever, free online “Introduction to Sinatra” course starting from 15th May 2010.
Sinatra – quickly create tiny web apps and services

What’s Sinatra?
Sinatra is a micro-framework for quickly creating tiny web-applications and small services in Ruby. It is not a Model-View-Controller (MVC) based framework.

Pro Git Bloggin'

Our very own international man of mystery Scott Chacon has been blogging some great blogs over at the Pro Git site recently:

AB Testing with Google Analytics

I love AB testing. I think it is either related to the fact I did a year of Maths at university before switching to Computer Science or because human psychology fascinates me. Either way when I launched 5ft Shelf I was keen to test lots. First on the agenda was the default shelf view. For those not familiar with the site you can view a shelf of books in one of two ways – cover view or spine view as we call it on the site (see screenshots – click to enlarge).

11 New Ruby Delights (For If/When You’re Tired of Rails 3.0)

no-rails-allowed.gifSick of Rails 3.0 yet or still enjoying your Sinatra, Rango, Ramaze,

Sikwamic: Simple Key-Value With Comet

GET: http://github.com/dorkalev/Sikwamic

What is it good for?

Ooh la la: Paperclip et les European S3 buckets

At the end of my last blog about Paperclip I mentioned that you need to do some patching if you want to use European S3 buckets to store your files.

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