| Wove |
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| Pretty neat website for an interesting device. | |
| Rscss |
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| Reasonable system for CSS stylesheet structure. | |
| Ruby-tricks |
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| Ruby tricks. | |
| Brave Clojure |
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| (book) Free online E-book for learning Clojure. | |
| AnyAPI |
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| Documentation and test consoles for over 150 public APIs. | |
| Administrate |
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| An admin dashboard as Rails engine, build by thoughtbot. | |
| Rubycritic |
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| A Ruby code quality reporter. | |
| Namecase |
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| Properly case people's names | |
| Freakonomics |
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| Freakonomics Radio CLI downloader. Nothing exceptional, I just happen to love that podcast. | |
| Ircanywhere |
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| Web based multi-user IRC bouncer. | |
| Elixir is not Ruby |
nov 1
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| Differences on all dimensions about Elixir and Ruby. | |
| Blog migration: From Jekyll to Middleman |
nov 1
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| Experience of a migration. | |
| Understanding self in Ruby |
nov 2
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| Look at self in a variety of every-day situations. | |
| React Native - How to make Instagram |
nov 2
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| Full length tutorial on a react native app with gl-react. | |
| How Ruby Interprets and Runs Your Programs |
nov 3
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| Using ripper and RubyVM::InstructionSequence to examine and understand how ruby works. | |
| Hunting Down the Scoop on ActiveRecord Scopes |
nov 3
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| What was going on under the hood when you use scopes. | |
| Announcing Administrate |
nov 3
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| The successor of active-admin. | |
| Naming Colors |
nov 3
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| Someone made a mac app to give sensible names to colors. | |
| Using Form Objects in Ruby on Rails |
nov 4
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| Tutorial on how to use form objects to lighten models. | |
| Team Collaboration System |
nov 4
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| Managing shared resources among developers. | |
| Advanced Data Structures in Ruby |
nov 5
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| 2 examples of advanced data structure. | |
| How constant lookup and resolution works in Ruby on Rails |
nov 5
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| How autoload_paths, require, load, and require_relative works in rails. | |
| Ruby Web Applications Without Rails |
nov 6
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| Program in ruby for the web with no framework, just rack. | |
| Reengineer legacy Rails applications |
nov 7
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| Regain control of big ball of mud Ruby on Rails applications. | |
Recently I had to package a gem for debian as a .deb. As a matter of fact, there is a lot of companies that are not in the ruby ecosystem and they rely on things they trust rather than rubygems. For a while debian was way behind on the inclusion of ruby and versions were outdated there. So a parallel distribution ecosystem had to be created. Now we have rvm, rbenv, or chruby for ruby and bundler and rubygems for the packages. But where I work, they package everything as debian packages. So I had to adapt.
So I went have a look at the debian ruby team and checked out the tools. That gem2deb tool is pretty convenient. I am using debian for a while but never really had to package anything. The debian community process is a bit complicated and they are not very inclusive. Compared to the ease of uploading any gem to rubygems, it's quite a fortress, and people in the process are not very welcoming.
Maybe it's generational. Debian started before sourceforge existed, they are rooted in a community tradition that are very exclusive and a bit elitist. But technology changes faster than people, obviously. Younger communities bootstrap in a more fluid environment.
I'm not sure it is related but maybe it is, there was another epic [Linus Hit][liushit] recently. Well, all those things put in perspective the niceness of the ruby community. Really, cherish it and enjoy it, it's precious.
