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Nuby on Rails (Geoffrey Grosenbach)
nubyonrails.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Geoffrey Grosenbach, creator of PeepCode, writes about Ruby on Rails development, tools, hosting, and editors.
What HN saysHN links it for older Rails material, including the Sparklines Ruby library, CSS graphs, gem freezing, and server monitoring scripts, plus an Emacs post.
18HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode4 people · 14 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 25 Minutes of Emacs2 people · 15 points · first shared 2008 · 8 comments on HN
- 3Five Features from Mercurial That Would Make Git Suck Less1 people · 37 points · first shared 2009 · 14 comments on HN
- 4Ask Your Doctor About mod_rails1 people · 16 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 5Massive List of Rails Development Tips1 people · 11 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 6Dynamic CSS1 people · 11 points · first shared 2007 · 2 comments on HN
- 7Improve Your Technical Slides1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Overview of Rails hosting options from a Rails dev1 people · 3 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 9Future of Web Apps Conference Review1 people · 1 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 10Beanstalk Messaging Queue1 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 11Graphing Engine for Ruby1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 12Surviving rails 1 1 with server monitoring1 people · first shared 2008
- 13Css graphs),1 people · first shared 2007
- 14Freeze other gems to rails lib directory1 people · first shared 2015
- 15Get rhythm in your baseline1 people · first shared 2007
What HN people wrote when they linked it
webwright · 2007-07-06
They are flash graphs that are XML-driven. We pondered CSS graphs (there's a great Rails helper for 'em here: http://nubyonrails.com/pages/css_graphs), but ultimately went with flash because there was a bit less code and they were a touch prettier. I still waffle on that particular decision.
caiusdurling · 2015-04-29
Reminds me of developing rails apps way back in the day before RVM gemsets or bundler came along. You'd vendor all the gems (& specific version for your app) into `vendor/gems` ala http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/12/22/freeze-other-gems-to-rails-…
ryan-allen · 2008-12-07
Some people seem to be investigating Emacs, from the world that had Textmate become popular! http://nubyonrails.com/articles/emacs-emacs
I've personally jumped to Vim. Mostly beacuse I do some sysadmin and now it's much less annoying editing config files, but also so I can jump from OS X and still be able to work.
nertzy · 2008-07-05
Geoffrey Grosenbach has a Ruby library for generating Sparklines: http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/07/28/sparklines-graph-library-fo…
And, as usual, Why the Lucky Stiff has a wacky minimalist one: http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/sparklinesForMinimalists.html
goodkarma · 2008-05-04
I use two different scripts:
1. dwatch http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/29/surviving-rails-1-1-with-se…
2. a PHP script that accesses a URL on the other server; if the server does not respond as expected, it sends me a SMS and emails the server admin
aantix · 2007-10-12
Joel's book is a great introduction and a must read if you haven't taken a look before.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html
Jakob Neilson's site is a treasure trove of usability information.
http://www.useit.com/
37 Signals will often write blog posts outlining particular design decisions in their products.
http://www.37signals.com/svn/
For a more specific topic, I have been researching typography. Something really simple to do (for which I am in the process of doing); get your text baselines to line up ("baseline rhythm"). It will make your site easier to read. Here's some great writeups on the subject.
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/04/30/typography-baseline-rhythm-d…
http://nubyonrails.com/articles/get-rhythm-in-your-baseline
And here's an online tool that will generate a CSS file with all the appropriate measurements:
http://topfunky.com/baseline-rhythm-calculator/