I’m still very bullish on BOSH. I’ve been experimenting with it internally at work, looking to see how it could duplicate or improve upon our current infrastructure, automation and release managem...

Recently I’ve been upgrading my RVM and Ruby versions. After upgrade I’ve encountered a problem connected to ruby-debugger. When starting Rails server I always ended with such a message: Ruby-debb...

When working with relational databases, the join tables are sometimes treated as second class citizens. If they are lucky, they’ll get some additional fields, but are often just placeholder tables c...

I sat down with Elise Worthy at RailsConf to pair with her on a Rails application that used the Wunderground API to retrieve the weather for multiple cities. If you don't know Elise, she's a Hungry A...

Wicked Gem Featured on Railscasts: Wicked was featured by Ryan Bates on Railscasts this past week. I’ve learned quite a bit over the years from Railscasts, so it’s a great honor to have my work fe...

As some of you may know, Fedora was recently accepted, as a participating organization into the Google Summer of Code. Shortly after this was announced, Buddhika (our Fedora GSoC Admin and Coordinato...

It’s fairly common to segment the accounts in your multi-tenant application with subdomains. GitHub gives you a subdomain that matches your username (e.g. rmm5t.github.com). Freshbooks gives you a s...

Um eine Softwaredokumentation für Ruby bzw. Ruby on Rails Projekte zu erstellen, gibt es viele Wege. Einerseits mittels oder auch mit YARD, welches mir erlaubt, Metadaten in meiner Dokumentation zu s...

Usually I write exclusively about Ruby on this site, and that may change in the near future, but today’s post is brought on by hours of painful troubleshooting I had to endure in order to get a func...

I was trying to make an existing app run as a Facebook App! The following instructions/solutions will help you to access your http://localhost:3000/ through Facebook. In addition I would like to get t...

I work on story cards for a lot of projects each year at Hashrocket and also see a lot of backlogs maintained by clients and open source projects. A notable difference that I find between healthy proj...

Having just one terminal window is usually not enough. Even though having many windows (represented by tabs in Linux terminal-handling tools or by many Putty instances) can solve this problem, it is o...

There is well-known a skills-shortage for programming... but don't be fooled. There are a lot of programmers out there too. The skills shortage is about there being a lack of *good* programmers. Jus...

Hi (Oh my God… he just started his blog post with ‘Hi’), Did you know that as of Rails 3.1, you can have nested has_many :through clauses in your models? Here is a concrete example to understand...

Welcome to April 2012's bumper pick'n'mix of Ruby and Rails news and releases, fresh from the pages of Ruby Weekly. Highlights include: Matz's new Ruby implementation, MobiRuby (Ruby for iOS), Passeng...

http://confreaks.com/videos/815-larubyconf2012-rails-sustainable-productivity Here are my notes on Xavier Shay’s awesome video on sustainable productivity in Rails. I agree wholeheartedly with all o...

Sometimes things happen and for reasons unknown, your airport stops working. You could go the menu bar, turn WIFI off, and then turn WIFI on again, or you could do create a shell script with these con...

In this post is a collection of useful material related to my RailsConf 2012 talk, entitled Getting Down To Earth: Geospatial Analysis With Rails. You can download the slides for the talk, and I’ve ...

Ruby is more popular than ever, but it’s also not as trendy as it used to be. rubylearning.com students1 asked a few questions to Matt Aimonetti about his vision of Ruby in 2012 and for the future. ...

rails-api is a plugin developed by Yehuda Katz, José Valim, Carlos Antonio da Silva and me (Santiago Pastorino) which modifies Rails applications trimming down usually unneeded Rails functionalities ...