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#094 - nov 23th 2014

Edito

I'm still on the move, this weekend at Rennes.

Look

Examples of UI/UX, graphic performance, web design and flashy things.
Nothing but thieves design
Simple but graphical band website.

Use

Web applications, resources and tools, available for making our life easier or funnier.
Clean Ruby rb
(book) Write code that announces how it works with the techniques in this book
Stream tool
Build scalable newsfeeds & activity.
Komments tool
Simple comment embedding, an alternative to discuss ?
Crypton js
So the server doesn't know the contents it's storing on behalf of users.
Ocean design
Community of designers sharing feedback..

Install

A selection of gems or applications updated during past week.
Rails 3.2.21, 4.0.12, and 4.1.8 rb
Security fix version, note that 4.0.11.1 and 4.1.7.1 also are available for 'just the fix'.
Bh - Bootstrap Helpers rb
Include Bootstrap components in your Ruby apps with short, documented, tested helpers.
SimonSays rb
A simple, declarative, role-based access control system for Rails.
ApiView rb
Fast and small Object Serializer gem.
Hansi rb
Your Hipster ANSI color library.
ReadActivity rb
Supports read/unread status (including read_at), and more.
Stream Rails rb
Build activity feeds, newsfeeds and activity streams.
interact.js js
JavaScript drag and drop, resizing and multi-touch gestures with inertia and snapping.
MetricsGraphics.js js
Library built on top of D3 that is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data.

Read

From the blogosphere or news feeds ...
Difference Between various ways to launch irb nov 18 rb
There are a lot of ways to launch a Ruby or Rails console.
Creating Rails Active Record Validation Contexts With Inheritance nov 18 rb
Description of a technique for validations code organization.
Massive Garbage Collection Speedup in Ruby 2.2 nov 18 rb
Some enhancements that are going to be in Ruby 2.2.
AWS Lambda Will Help Create a New Normal nov 18 rb
Some enhancements that are going to be in Ruby 2.2.
Specifying Ruby on Rails Controllers with RSpec nov 19 rb
Sharing about rspec in the form of a worked example.
Writing DSLs in Ruby without monkeypatching Object nov 19 rb
write beautiful DSLs without polluting every Ruby object with your methods.
Are Your Cache-Control Directives Doing What They Are Supposed to Do? nov 19 web
Recap on various params impacting cache strategies in HTTP.
Mini-chat with Rails and Server-Sent Events nov 20 rb
Example using Server Side EVents to replace websockets on a tutorial chat rails app.
Unicorn Unix Magic Tricks nov 20 rb
Post based on the talk at the Arrrrcamp conf, best post about unicorn ever.
The Basics of Node.js Streams nov 20 js
Explore Streams in detail and understand how they can simplify I/O.
Sass Multiple Arguments, Lists or Arglist nov 20 css3
Where to use list, where to use arglist, in functions and mixins arguments.
Raptor optimizations nov 21 rb
How they made Raptor fast, the geeky details.
15 Best jQuery File Upload Plugins nov 22 js
Easily add file upload feature to web applications.

Watch

Screencasts and conferences videos, or other video feeds ...
ArrrrCamp 2014 Schedule (14 videos) nov 14 rb
Videos from early october arrcamp.
Sysadmincasts #39 (11m) nov 17 ops
CLI Monday: How to Keep Your SSH Sessions Alive.
CSS and the Critical Path (23m) nov 20 css3
Patrick Hamann at CSSconf EU 2014.
Gorails 33 (24m) nov 21 rb
Sign In With Twitter using Omniauth and the Twitter gem.

Listen

What could be heard last week ..
Web Platform Podcast 18 (50m) nov 17 ops
ORTC & WebRTC Deep Dive with Tsahi Levent-Levi.
The bike shed #2 (35m) nov 17 rb
Rails 4.2.
Food Fight Show 84 (59m) nov 17 ops
Apache Kafka.
Giant Robots 123 (24m) nov 18 rb
Don't Call It a Codecation (Chris Hunt)
Ruby5 511 (6m) nov 18 rb
Ruby 2.1.5, Scribble, Curly, Rubysierung, Minitest-Reporters.
TheChangelog 131 (1h08) nov 18 js
The Road to Ember 2.0 with Tom Dale and Yehuda Katz.
RubyRogues 182 (1h05) nov 19 rb
Keeping Libraries and Utilities Small and Simple with Michel Martens.
Javascript Jabber 134 (39m) nov 19 js
Quilljs with Jason Chen.
Adventure in angular #17 (31m) nov 20 js
AtScript with Miško Hevery.
Ruby5 512 (5m) nov 21 rb
RubyConf 2014, accelerating Rails, RubyGems.org gets redesigned, Heroku HTTP Git, Rails released.
Ruby on Rails Podcast 177 (47m) nov 21 rb
RefactorCop - Winner of the 2014 Rails Rumble.
Links curated by mose (editor), xenor, tysliu (informers).

Green Ruby News was a feed of fresh links of the week about ruby, javascript, webdev, devops, collected by mose, xenor and tysliu every sunday.