Double Shot #1314
- Introducing EstimationParty - Google+ Hangout addon to allow teams to put together estimates and plan iterations.
- Softcover - A publishing platform based on the Rails tutorial - Build and publish ebooks with media.
- rails-mrap-seed - Hackathon seed project including Mongoid, HAML, Bootstrap, RSpec, and Capybara.
- Luculent - Font family for developers with plenty of hinting and legible rendering at tiny sizes.
Double Shot #1313
- Freestyle - CSS UI styling for Android and iOS applications.
- WiFi Explorer - Review of a tool for digging into your WiFi environment.
- BigBroda - Active Record adapter for Google BigQuery.
Double Shot #1312
- RubyMotion: Under the hood - A look at tools for exploring the internals of running RubyMotion and other iOS apps.
- The Best Tools for UI Hacking (not jsFiddle) - A variety of sites to allow you to create and share web pages quickly.
- CodeKit 2 - Tool for building web sites on OS X with a bunch of nifty autorefresh features.
Double Shot #1311
- Rails - the Missing Parts - Interactors - An approach to making Rails applications more testable through less database coupling.
- 0.8 Release - Of Pakyow, one of the lesser-known Ruby web frameworks that boasts some impressive performance numbers.
Double Shot #1310
- Enterprise App Developer Atlas - Well-organized directory of 500+ development tools.
- elasticsearch-rails - This glue layer just put out version 0.1.0 and seems to be humming right along.
- Alcatraz - Package manager for XCode add-ins (plugins, color schemes, templates).
Double Shot #1309
- 10 SCSS utilities I can't live without - Shortcuts for the frontend developer.
- Atom Blog - Behind the scenes of GitHub's new text editor. Personally, I think a text editor carting around the baggage of a web browser is a non-starter, but I'm just an old fuddy-duddy I'm sure.
- A critical look at Atom.io - I guess I'm not the only skeptic out there.
- Search a git repo like a ninja - Using git grep with great power.
Double Shot #1308
- Prelang - Rails application generator including a data modeler.
- Reflecting on RubyMotion Experiences - Part 1 - Some advice from the trenches.
- Atom - New text editor from GitHub, now taking beta invite requests.
- Feature Preview: Vagrant Share - Share vagrant environments over the network.
Double Shot #1307
- Graylog2 0.20.0 - Major update of this log analysis application.
- git log is *so* 2005 - Alias to make for more useful on-screen logging.
- Ruby 1.9.3-p545 is released - And that's the last release, barring security updates. Time to get serious about moving to 2.0.
- If you're salting and hashing your passwords, you're doing it wrong - An argument that you need to depend on trusted code instead of rolling your own.
- Network Link Conditioner - I didn't know there was a utility built in to XCode to allow testing with degraded networks.
Double Shot #1306
- Omniref - Searchable documentation for everything ruby.
- Hipster Dev Stack - "A curated directory of artisanal development tools that we used to like before they went mainstream."
- Clearskies - Host-it-yourself protocol for syncing things between computers.
- Ruby 2.1.1 is released - I guess it's really time to get off of 1.9.
- Ruby 2.0.0-p451 is released - Speaking of which, there's a fresh 2.0 bugfix release.
Double Shot #1305
- What's Relevant in the Ruby Universe? - Some statistics derived from indexing and cross-referencing every gem.
- Raygun: Generating Rails Apps for the Last Year - Updates on the app generator developed by Carbon Five.
- RSpec 2.99 and 3.0 beta 2 have been released - Big changes in the world of specs.
- TimezoneParser - Gem for parsing human-readable timezone names (in lots of languages) to UTC offsets.
- Salted Password Hashing - Doing it Right - A good read on best practices for password storage with code in a variety of languages.
Double Shot #1304
- Cequel - Ruby ORM for Cassandra.
- AdequateRecord Pro: Like ActiveRecord, but more adequate - A preview of some speed improvements coming in Rails 4.2.
- Introducing the Revamped Server UI - At Scout, that is.
- Radiation-hardened Quine - A tour de force of useless ruby.
Double Shot #1303
- Random User Generator - Get your random test data in JSON.
- REPL - Tool for manipulating JSON using JavaScript.
- Codio Boxes now Available - Server-side development environment supporting Ruby and Node.
Double Shot #1302
- baseimage-docker - Better starting image for Docker installs.
- Live Editing Sass and Less in the Firefox Developer Tools - How to get started with CSS source maps.
- Rails 4.1.0: Release candidate 1 - I've been running this in production and we're happy with it.
- Rails 3.2.17, 4.0.3, and 4.1.0.beta2 have been released! - These are security fixes that you should grab even if you're not ready to move up a version.
Double Shot #1301
Double Shot #1300
Oh hey that's another 100 of these things done.
- Putting Ruby on Rails on a diet - Some hints on eliminating default functionality that you might not need.
- Using pry in production - Replacing irb "without shooting yourself in the foot".
- PostgresApp - Easy installer for running PostgreSQL on the Mac.
Double Shot #1299
- Refactoring Rails Views with SimplestView - Not sure why you wouldn't want code in the easiest place to find, but hey I'm not really an OO guy.
- Keybase - Public directory of public keys, now in alpha release.
Double Shot #1298
- Rails 4 Engines - Decomposing your app into multiple engines with a SOA-like connection.
- Elasticsearch 1.0.0 Released - Big number for this spiffy bit of software.
- Why Ruby blocks exist - A basic introduction to using blocks and each.
Double Shot #1297
- Drone - Continuous integration platform built on top of Docker.
- Announcing gitsh - A dedicated shell for running git subcommands.
Double Shot #1296
- Brackets - Open source code editor with live HTML editing.
- PostgreSQL Awesomeness for Rails developers - A quick look at what you get if you switch databases.
- Padrino 0.12.0 - ActiveSupport 4, Rewritten Reloader, Smarter Rendering, and Loads More - New release of this web development framework.
Double Shot #1295
- Git tips from the trenches - A medley of useful commands and aliases.
- thedaywefightback.js - Web-wide protest against the NSA on Feb 11.
- orats - A fresh set of opinionated Rails templates.
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