Double Shot #1589

  • This week in Rails - All the new stuff from the week's development including new minor releases in the 4.1 and 4.2 series.
  • Brakeman Pro 1.0 is Available - Commercial Rails security scanner built on the open source Brakeman project. It adds a GUI and promises a deeper analysis in the future, for $2500.
  • App Monitoring for the Modern Dev Team - Scout's app monitoring product has launched, at $59/server/month. I've worked with it in its beta period, and it's pretty sweet for Rails apps.

Double Shot #1588

  • Nanobox - Magic layer to make Vagrant + Docker just work by detecting and installing all your app's dependencies.
  • Sidekiq 4.0! - A major optimization release of this solid jobs engine.
  • Scrivito - Cloud-backed Rails CMS with professional features & pricing.

Double Shot #1587

  • Dockercraft - A Docker client that runs in Minecraft. This is what happens when developers have too much time on their hands.
  • Open Source Work - A major contributor to the Ruby/Rails universe burns out. Not an unusual thing, alas. Open source is pretty unsustainable.
  • Pakyow - "A Ruby framework for building the modern web", with an emphasis on realtime and push updates.

Double Shot #1586

  • FiveStar - Gem to implement a rating system atop whatever domain objects you like.
  • DRG CMS - A content management system built with Rails and Mongo DB.
  • ne - The "nice editor", a simple text editor that can be installed most anywhere and is easier than vi or emacs.

Double Shot #1578

  • rscss - "Reasonable System for CSS Stylesheet Structure," a way to organize your stylesheets for sanity.
  • Administrate - Admin dashboard library for Rails from Thoughtbot.

Double Shot #1576

  • Canary Releases - A tweak to blue green deploys that starts by trickling traffic to a new site version so you can catch real world problems before everyone sees the change.
  • Aruba - Cucumber steps for testing CLI applications.
  • ruby-tricks - GitHub repo full of obscure and useful things you can do with ruby.

Double Shot #1575

  • Ruby::Pretentious - A gem to support "design driven tests" by building Rspec files directly from your already-finished code.
  • Get Shit Done Rails Version - UI gem to help integrate Bootstrap with Rails. Free version with a forthcoming paid pro version & a marketplace for themes.

Double Shot #1574

  • Announcing Carina by Rackspace - "Instant-on native container environment" currently in free beta that now gives you access to Docker Swarm but has plans to expand to other orchestration tools later.
  • i18n-tasks - Find missing translations and unused keys in Ruby internationalization files.

Double Shot #1573

  • Things To Avoid When Writing CSS - Some of this will rub people the wrong way, especially the advice to avoid breaking CSS up into multiple files.
  • Jekyll 3.0 Released - Static site-builder that lets you toss text to GitHub Pages (or other places) quite simply. There are lots of bells and whistles these days if you want them.

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