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5 Ways to Sharpen Your Ruby-foo

almost 5 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
I recently got around to reviewing some of my notes and bookmarks from David A. Black’s “Ruby for Rails” and found a number of nifty Rubyisms...

Distributed Ruby Workers on EC2

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Whether you’re writing a Rails application, or a straight Ruby library, every once in a while you will have to run a long computational task. In such...

Creating JavaScript widgets in Rails

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
The proverbial widget economy is running at full steam, and in order to keep up with the times I decided to create some custom JavaScript widgets for one...

Caching and MIME Types in Rails

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Favorite question after every presentation: but does it scale? Now, I don’t want to get into a philosophical debate over ’scaling’ and...

5 Minute Beta Authentication in Rails

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Releasing your application in stages is often a very good idea, it allows you to build a core user base, and more importantly, it gives you time to winnow...

Integrating Wordpress and Rails

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
When you have a good hammer everything looks like a nail. And arguably, that’s the main problem with the positioning of Rails - it’s often seen...

Efficient Updates & Data Import in Rails

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
> mysql-insert.sql /* Typical ActiveRecord insert * number of records = slow */ mysql> INSERT INTO widgets (title, price) VALUES ('gizmo',5); Query OK...

Sendmail & Spam Filter Tricks in Rails

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Earlier in the week I ran into an unfortunate feature on Google Apps: a daily limit of 500 outbound emails from your account. Up to that point Anatol Pomozov...

AideRSS - smart RSS filtering

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
After months of development, countless UI iterations, and a very successful round of closed beta trials, I’m happy to say that AideRSS is finally...

Reconstructing Request URIs in Rails

over 4 years ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
When building AideRSS we needed to process full URIs as query strings in our app (for example: http://www.aiderss.com/all/igvita.com/blog/) - sounds simple...