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rghk is a small library used to define globall hotkeys so users can interact with an application even if it does not have the focus.This new version provides an easy way get key values from strings.GlobalHotKeys::KeyVal.from_name('a')To use rghk you ...

More files missed out in gemspec !!!Also fixes some issues that gave errors in 1.8.7. (space before paren).

Thanks to Prentice Hall and Addison-Weseley giving me three new books, my reading list has bulked back up. Here's what I'm working through at the moment:The FreebiesUNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (4th Edition) ? I'm really excited abo...

I've been thinking a lot about ZZ Top recently. This isn't something I generally do as a rule, but it was prompted by re-reading a blog post by the inimitable Giles Bowkett ostensibly about the song I'm Bad; I'm Nationwide. Go ahead and cue that...

I’m pleased to be able to return to Oslo for JavaZone 2010. Whether you’re checking out JRuby for the first time or a veteran JRuby user, I’ll have something for you! And if I don’t, I encourage you to come badger me after...

I am pleased that my Engine Yard webinar on JRuby and deployment is available for general viewing. While the JRuby deployment story is still evolving and maturing, and the 60 minute time frame is too short to cover the issues in depth, I hope you...

Ilya Grigorik (@igrigorik) is another GoGaRuCo speaker who's kindly agreed to sit down and work through a short interview with me. Hopefully this gives you taste of what you'll be missing if you're not going to the Bay Area's regional Ruby conferenc...

GoGaRuCo is just around the corner (Sep 17-18), and it looks like it's going to be a great conference again this year. I wanted to touch base with Josh Susser (@joshsusser) again to see what was going to set this year apart. He was kind enough to a...

As you've probably heard by now, Oracle has decided to file suit against Google, claiming multiple counts of infringement against Java or JVM patents and copyrights they acquired when they assimilated Sun Microsystems this past year. Since I'm unlike...

I just finished reading a great book - Web Operations by John Allspaw and Jesse Robbins. This isn't a book of code samples; it's a book to make you think more about system administration in the large, infrastructure as code, and other big picture it...

This next Thursday is Whyday. Celebrate with some outragous coding. What are you doing for Whyday? This next Thursday is designated as Whyday, aday set aside to commemorate all the many wacky contributions of Whythe Lucky Stiff to the Ruby community...

Another Rails and PostgreSQL job, this time at Paperless Post (via the Github jobs board). Looks like they have a few more open positions. And you'd work with Aaron Quint, who's their CTO. Good times!

Saw this ad for a Rails and PostgreSQL job at Eleven Learning. The company name is a "Spinal Tap" reference... well played.

A while back I posted a link to a talk by Gleb Arshinov that he gave at the SF PUG. This talk was on "PostgreSQL for high performance Rails apps", and was full of fine suggestions from their experiences with their Rails apps.Gleb is back a...

This week I was lucky enough to attend the Emerging Languages conference, a special event nestled snugly in a corner of O'Reilly's OSCON open source conference. Emerging Languages brought together language designers and implementors together to...

I'm slowly catching up with my podcast backlog and came across a Pivotal Labs talk from May 2009. In this talk Josh Susser and Damon McCormick are presenting on Scaling a Rails App with Postgres . It's a little dated now - this talk was given was w...

With the release of 1.2.0 out the door, I'm going to stop using RubyForge for issue tracking and forum. Join the new forum over at Google Groups:http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-ocraAnd post any bugs you find over at GitHub:http://github.com/larsc...

ocra version 1.2.0 has been released!OCRA (One-Click Ruby Application) builds Windows executables from Rubysource code. The executable is a self-extracting, self-runningexecutable that contains the Ruby interpreter, your source code andany additional...

pkg-config version 1.0.2 has been released!A pkg-cofnig implementation by RubyChanges:* fix packaing miss.

pkg-config version 1.0.0 has been released!A pkg-cofnig implementation by RubyChanges:# NEWS

`ignorando arquivos do yardoc`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/36fbc9a6da3c8a3f7252df5ea4c70aa6ec976279.

`Incluindo mais validacoes`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/df6fadce3ef428046d21ac8960850fa3fea586fe.

`refatorando metodo gerador do codigo de barras`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/984a43a2507b9a6e77cffe4abb17d411284e45e4.

`incluindo validacoes basicas usando activemodel 3.0.0`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/b37cae127c984574a7210ed5463ced56ab125536.

Major changes in config and API.

`refatorando diversos metodos`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/74d65b48e622400b0a576fe67ac879972c14e008.

`incluindo rake task para o metric_fu`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/1dac08d66b2789646e9ddfb01fd3796d731e1057.

`gerando excessao para carteira desconhecida`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/a16b71184d49c90b6c836fba92fbd61804f7f455.

`refatorando o modulo de extensoes`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/53edcb425853da087a7be26ad5ed66aeffe6cbbf.

`ignorando pastas geradas pelo metric_fu`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/3c75db809baae484264cf752d3ed2ea5bf062dff.

`setando corretamente os getter e setter na classe base`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/14c6046c7ce226dac54243f1eb9ff7e6b81d0dce.

`refatorando carteira-refatorando seu_numero`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/782ea0c0190c010947d514b4e6dd458a3d13fc21.

`movendo fator_vencimento para classe base`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/ea12686cd8b465e163e63880e50fd66d440886ea.

`refatorando valor_documento`, pushed by Kivanio Barbosa (kivanio@gmail.com). View more details for this change at http://github.com/kivanio/brcobranca/commit/5126f25c6fbcae805dd7ad86569d65321d4b8132.

Take a look at the mysql_replication_adapter gem to get easy access to slave MySQL servers in a master-slave replication setup.

Check out Bernie Thompson's great summary of the OpenID world from the Rails point of view. It has everything you could want to know about implementing OpenID in your Rails application.

Theron Parlin, who created the HappyCodr Rails application showcase, has put together a quick walkthrough of deploying your Rails application using Pound. It's simple and to the point -- perfect for anyone who's never done it before.

A great introduction to using the Acts as Ferret plugin to add search to your Rails application.

Use seattle.rb's gem to add some caching goodness to your models.

Coda Hale has a great write-up on deploying your Rails applications using apache2 + mongrel. I'm using lighty + mongrel to go easy on my VPS, but this combo seems to be pretty strong.

RSpec is a framework for implementing Behavior Driven Development (BDD), a kind of successor to Test Driven Development. RSpec provides a Ruby DSL for specifying how your objects, applications, etc. should behave and testing for that expected behav...

Firebug is an excellent plugin for Firefox that makes it easy to see what's going on with your javascript. It's especially handy when trying to debug AJAX issues.Justin Palmer offers some advice on how to use Firebug effectively during your javascri...

Brian Hogan has written up some informative articles on various ways to deploy your Rails apps in a Windows environment, using Apache or IIS.The articles take you step-by-step through setting up Rails and Mongrel to serve your app, then how to proxy ...

Jens-Christian Fischer has put together a PDF that condenses a lot of the Rails API documentation into a portable (pun intended) reference.

Stanislav Karchebny has whipped up a way to integrate RSpec (an implementation of Behaviour Driven Development) with Ruby on Rails. Now Railers can easily take TDD to the next level. :)

Ezra Zygmuntowicz has put together a great tutorial on deploying your Rails application behind a load balancer (pen in this case) without using a web server like Apache or Lighttpd. Mongrel is used behind the balancer to serve the application, and i...

Here's a great simple way to generate reports for Excel

Ah, this is great... Here's a simple way to get all the layout stuff stripped from the output when you are doing functional testing. This way you are only left with the actual page content.

After reading the IBM developerWorks article on integrating Selenium with Ruby on Rails (http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-selenium-ajax/), I thought it would be cool to have a plugin that kept the public directory free of selenium...