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UNIX start / stop / restart script for automatic Mongrel cluster management

over 3 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Jon Maddox was inspired by Ruby Inside's previous post about init.d startup scripts, and has put together a UNIX init.d script that can start, stop, and...

YouTube Ruby library

over 3 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Shane Vitarana has put together a Ruby library for accessing YouTube videos and metadata. All that's needed is a simple gem install youtube, and you can...

SessionTimeout: A Rails Plugin to handle short-term session timeouts

over 3 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
SessionTimeout is a Rails plugin by Luke Redpath that makes enforcing short session times easy, like so: class ApplicationController session_times_out_in...

Accepting a single character from the keyboard in Ruby

over 3 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
James Edward Gray II laments: Every so often a person asks the question on Ruby Talk, "How can I get just one character from the keyboard (without needing...

Interviews with the JRuby team

over 3 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Following on from his original interview with Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo of the JRuby team, Pat Eyler has interviewed the team again (read part 1 then...

Protect Your Rails Application Against Spam with Akismet

over 3 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Austrian development agency, Sparkling Studios, look at how to use the Akismet anti-spam system to check data submitted to your site and protect your application...

Review of "Ruby For Rails" by David A. Black

over 3 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Rob Sanheim (one of the Ajaxians) has put together a great review of Ruby For Rails by David Black. It's a great book, and if you haven't got it yet, let...

RJS Demystified PDF

over 3 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Amy Hoy has put together a PDF that's a cross between a very basic cheatsheet and an introduction to RJS (the AJAX / JavaScript DSL included with Rails...

How to enable tab completion in IRB

over 3 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
This is going to be child's play to most of you, but Eric Lake has a cool video up about how to enable a simple prompt and tab completion in IRB. I'd never...

REST and Rails - The best-ever Rails screencast

over 3 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
After watching Geoffrey Grosenbach's latest episode of Peepcode, a pay-for screencast series showing you how to do cool stuff with Ruby on Rails, I can...