An Intervention for ActiveRecord, Using Gems in RubyMtion, GemConfig, using Nested Attributes with BackBone, Lyricfy (sorry - Chris made me sing!), and a shoutout to Josh Kemp in this RubyLoco-Powered episode of Ruby5.
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An Intervention for ActiveRecord, Using Gems in RubyMtion, GemConfig, using Nested Attributes with BackBone, Lyricfy (sorry - Chris made me sing!), and a shoutout to Josh Kemp in this RubyLoco-Powered episode of Ruby5.
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ActiveRecord Intervention
Ernie Miller's talk from RailsConf is up online. If you've been curious about the inner workings of ActiveRecord, here's your brain-food!
MotionBundler
If you're using RubyMotion, you've probably run into the situation where a gem you'd really like to use just isn't includable in your project. MotionBundler solves that with a single line of code. Don't try to use gems with C extensions though...
GemConfig
Gem authors - how do you add configuration options to your gem? Yaml? a little dsl? a Hash exposed into the Global namespace? Well check out GemConfig for a nice reusable solution to this problem.
Backbone Nested Attrs
Vicente Mundim recently blogged about a new gem named backbone-nested-attributes. It provides your backbone models with 1-1 and 1-N relations support, as well as Rails-like nested attributes
Lyricfy
I'm sorry. So very, very sorry.
Josh Kemp
Do horses prefer Nike, Adidas, or Rebok? Josh Kemp can tell you. He can also whip up a few domain models and a little bit of CSS into a custom rails app.
For months, Josh has been learning to become a developer and blogging about his journey, down the material he's working on and the hours he's spent doing it. (He's also the guy that inspired us to talk about RTanque a few months back). A lot of people have taken his journey, but few have done it with such visibility and passion.
He launched his resume site last week and gained a little retweet love from the likes of Corey Haines and Uncle Bob Martin - go watch him pound out a horseshoe - dude has a freakin forge in the back of his car?!?!