Good, Simple Design

I’ve heard this re-framed again and again by many different programmers from @wycats at Ruby conf to @dhh in his parlay letter:

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JRuby Support Live on Heroku

I’ve been quite lately, thats because we’ve been working on something amazing over at Heroku. So check out:

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Hi There I Wonder What Do You Think About Mongodb And

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Custom Wizard URLs in Rails with Wicked

I wrote this wizard controller library that people seem to really dig called Wicked. It works well to build after signup wizards and to incrementally build objects for the database but there is one thing it didn’t do very well until now: allow you to change the text in your wizard url’s quickly and easily.

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Hacking mruby onto Heroku

If you’re in the Ruby world, you’ve likely heard about mruby, Matz’s latest experimental Ruby implementation. What I bet you didn’t know is that you can run mruby on Heroku right now. As a matter of fact you can run just anything on Heroku, as long as it can compile it into a binary on a Linux box.

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Ruby 2.0 Preview Available on Heroku

When Heroku first launched you could only use one version of Ruby: 1.8.6. As the Ruby implementation matured and improved, so did Heroku. We recently announced the ability to specify your ruby version on Heroku, and we are happy to announce the first preview-build of Ruby available: starting today you can use Ruby 2.0 preview1 on Heroku.

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Reddit on Rails part 3: Last week of UT on Rails

I’m finally wrapping up my UT on Rails series. While people have been getting close to the end of the course, I’ve gotten the question “Now what?” plenty of times. Now that you’ve spent 40+ hours pouring over videos, exercises, and quizzes where do you go from here? To answer this question I made a short video. But first, the last exercise of the course:

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Try mruby Today

Ruby dominates the web: running popular sites like Github, Heroku, and Living Social. But why should web developers get to have all the fun? Wouldn’t it be great if game developers, embedded systems engineers, or anyone else could use the beautiful syntax of Ruby in their C programs? Lucky for us, that’s exactly what mruby plans to do…

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the boots in the corner: Hire junior devs!

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Embed Gists into a Markdown File

Have you ever wanted to convert all the code blocks in a markdown file to embedded gists?

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