End of the working week RoR news + links
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http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/306418999/pool-party-poolparty-ruby… PoolParty: One Ruby Gem = Easy EC2 Computing Cloud at 06/06/2008 11:20 PM
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/306366813/microsoft-arax-ruby-ajax-… Microsoft’s Latest Bad Idea? ARAX - Ruby-powered AJAX at 06/06/2008 09:20 PM
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RubyInside/~3/300901062/pragmatic-screencasts-904… Active Record Screencasts: The Pragmatic Programmers Get Into Screencasting at 05/30/2008 04:40 AM
http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/05/29/this-week-in-ruby-may-29-2008/ This Week in Ruby (May 29, 2008) at 05/30/2008 02:00 AM
http://www.rubyinside.com/pragmatic-screencasts-904.html Active Record Screencasts: The Pragmatic Programmers Get Into Screencasting at 05/30/2008 01:20 AM
http://blog.caronsoftware.com/2008/5/29/twitter-api-user-ids Twitter API: User IDs at 05/29/2008 06:20 PM
http://rubyforge.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=24785 custom db migrator (rails):Announcing Custom Migrator 0.1 release at 05/29/2008 01:40 AM
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Live coverage of #railsconf by @igrigorik
Last 6 tweets from igrigorik 
IronRuby on rails: only the sql driver was needed to get the stack running… Otherwise everything is the same, and works as expected at 05/30/2008 05:58 PM
Multicore FUD talk: first impression, stop reading from your notes… Room drifting asleep. #railsconf at 05/30/2008 05:50 PM
Back to pen and paper @ railsconf. Wewt. at 05/30/2008 05:45 PM
@timbray more twitter coverage of #railsconf here.. Courtesy of dead laptop. at 05/30/2008 06:31 PM
Multicore talk: plugged Switchpipe by @peterc - mix and match cluster management at 05/30/2008 06:29 PM
Engineyard: ebb is not production ready; don’t worry about the app server, should be the least of your worries. at 05/30/2008 07:15 PM
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Interesting stuff happening around RoR world.
Last 5 tweets from rornews
http://tinyurl.com/468lgy custom db migrator (rails):Announcing Custom Migrator 0.1 release at 05/29/2008 01:40 AM
http://tinyurl.com/67ny5q Twitter API: User IDs at 05/29/2008 06:20 PM
http://tinyurl.com/6f6vrf This Week in Ruby (May 29, 2008) at 05/30/2008 02:00 AM
http://tinyurl.com/5dbdtt Active Record Screencasts: The Pragmatic Programmers Get Into Screencasting at 05/30/2008 01:20 AM
http://tinyurl.com/6qkdpa Active Record Screencasts: The Pragmatic Programmers Get Into Screencasting at 05/30/2008 04:40 AM
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How to extract text from HTML using Ruby/Hpricot
I found this while solving my own problem. ( That is always a best way to learn).
- Above line gets the inner text (which is a very convenient method to get the actual meat out of HTML)
- Replaces line returns into spaces.
- Do a split/join which eliminates multiple spaces between tags and words. This trims it down to single space
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13 Seed Funding Options For Entrepreneurs - From @rww
By Bernard Lunn
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/13_seed_funding_options_for_entrepreneurs.php
Some funny, Some serious.
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Passenger - mod_rails - Can this be a speed demon for Rails apps ?
What is Passenger ? (from http://www.modrails.com/)
Phusion Passenger — a.k.a. mod_rails — makes deployment of applications built on the revolutionary Ruby on Rails web framework a breeze. It follows the usual Ruby on Rails conventions, such as “Don’t-Repeat-Yourself”.
If this really picks up, expect to toss couple of key problems with rails based apps
- Rails can potentially be as fast as PHP or Python : Everyone’s complain about Rails being slow (I agree up to some extent) , just because rails needs to go thru additional application server layer . Passenger should come bundled with mod_rails (as any other apache modules) and Apache itself (which may not be needed by too many people). So all you looking at Webserver -> mod_rails -> Rails execution framework, as lean as anything you can imagine
- Deployment will be breeze as above site says.
Also comments from two of the best authorities on Ruby & Rails
- Matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) said “It is often said that Rails is weak on deployment; PHP runs fairly fast just by uploading scripts.Rails is slow on development mode, and requires restarting on production mode (and bit complex to configure). modrails might be the answer for it.”.
- David Heinemeier Hansson says “This could become popular very fast”
Surely worth a try and this could answer and resolve tons of frustration rails programmers have as far as performance is concerned.
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101 Year Old Man Running Marathon and Drinking.
Thats unreal, at this age he can SMOKE, DRINK and RUN ?. WoW!.
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GitHub - Social Network for Nerds
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Wired talking about “instapreneurs”
Quick read article on wired.com about the new age internet trend of "get it fast out there" .
One example mentioned in the article was Zazzle, how they get Disney's brand out there in public so fast, that traditional retailer can not even think about unless traditional folks spin their chain to have good online presence. Some of the interesting numbers in the article Ian mount talks about
Disney has uploaded more than 3,500 of its designs to Zazzle, allowing the company to sell a wider range of products than just the blockbuster Mickey Mouse T-shirts favored by conventional retailers. The service also gives the Disney machine unprecedented agility. "Here, I can see that Hannah Montana is taking off, we can upload a design right into Zazzle's system, and in a day or two it's a product," says Patrick Haley, senior manager of customization for DisneyShopping.com.
On the side note, now I see the term "instapreneur" catching up and will be another one to toss around in your discussion with friends about modern trends and buzzwords.
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MessageDance - iPhone photo to Twitter, Facebook, WordPress
Another installment of How iPhone to Twitter/Facebook/MySpace/Wordpress/Xanga/LiVEJOURNAL/Blogger/TypePad/VOX.
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