How to Cure Net::HTTP’s Risky Default HTTPS Behavior
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. James Golick, a prolific Canadian Rubyist, has declared war on Net:HTTP's default of not checking the validity of the certificate sent by an HTTP server when making HTTPS requests. His new always_verify_ssl_certificates gem forces Net::HTTP to verify SSL certificates and doesn't allow other libraries to override this setti
Ruby Refinements: An Overview of a New Proposed Ruby Feature
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Significant and serious improvements to the core Ruby language come along as infrequently as TextMate updates. Given that TextMate has had an update recently, an important new Ruby feature was sure to be just around the corner and it is: refinements! Shugo Maeda (who works with Matz and developer of mod_ruby) presented the
Is the Ruby Standard Library a Ghetto?
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. In The Ruby Stdlib is a Ghetto, Mike Perham argues that Ruby's "standard library" (all the libraries that come by default with Ruby installs) is old and crufty and suggests some parts that should be removed. The Problem In case you're unfamiliar with the term, the ever authoritative Urban Dictionary lists ghetto as, among
Rails for Zombies: An Online Rails Learning Environment
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Rails for Zombies is an intriguing attempt to teach people how to use Ruby on Rails directly in the Web browser. It comes from Envy Labs (and specifically Gregg Pollack, once of RailsEnvy fame). The goal of Rails for Zombies is to make the learning process immediately accessible and fun. You're guaranteed to learn quite a
Chronic 0.3.0 Released: Improved Natural Language Date/Time Parsing
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Tom Preston-Werner has pushed out version 0.3.0 of Chronic, the popular natural language date and time parsing library for Ruby. It's a significant release because the last was 0.2.3 back in July 2007! Grab it now with gem install chronic Despite the long time between releases, Chronic hasn't gone without attention. It's b
Infinity Test: Flexible Continuous Testing with Multiple Ruby Implementations
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Infinity Test is a new library by Tomas D'Stefano that pitches itself as a "flexible alternative to Autotest." If you want your project's tests (both RSpec or Test::Unit are supported) to be automatically run when changes are made, this is a great place to start. The big benefit of Infinity Test is the support for testing
Ruby 1.9.2 Released
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Yuki (Yugui) Sonoda has just announced the release of the stable version of Ruby 1.9.2! Ruby 1.9.2 has been released. This is the newest release of Ruby 1.9 series. Ruby 1.9.2 is mostly compatible with 1.9.1, except the following changes: Many new methods New socket API (IPv6 support) New encodings Random class that suppor
Ruby Tracker: An Online Dependency Tracker for your Ruby Projects
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Ruby Tracker is a new webapp from EnvyLabs that tracks dependencies for your Ruby and Rails applications. It alerts you whenever libraries you depend on are updated or have new versions released. This is all in aid of keeping up to date. Only two downsides: Ruby Tracker only works with projects that use Bundler and that ar
Mongoid vs MongoMapper: Two Great MongoDB Libraries for Ruby
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. It's been almost a year since Ric Roberts posted about using MongoDB and MongoMapper and I've seen an explosion in the number of people using these tools in the Ruby community since then (I use them heavily on coder.io too). MongoMapper has become the de facto standard way to use MongoDB from Ruby, but it's not the only ga
Ruby 1.9 Fibers + EventMachine for Big Ruby Webapp Performance Gains
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Developers hankering for more performance from their Rack and Rails applications are using Ruby 1.9 fibers and event-based EventMachine-driven libraries as a way to boost the performance of their applications - in opposition to scaling by merely running multiple processes or using threads. It's no secret that thread-based
HTTParty: Quick Web Service Consumption From Any Ruby Class
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. HTTParty is a new Ruby library by John Nunemaker (of railstips.org fame) that makes it a snap to build classes that can use Web-based APIs and related services. At its simplest, you include the HTTParty module within a class, which gives your class a "get" method that can retrieve data over HTTP. Further directives, howeve
Nestful: A Simple Ruby HTTP/REST Client Library
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Nestful is a simple HTTP/REST client library for Ruby, developed by Alex MacCaw (of Juggernaut) fame. Nestful allows you to consume basic Web services easily, usually in a single line of code. It can deal with JSON, buffered downloads, and callbacks out of the box. HTTParty is the current, de-facto simple HTTP/REST client
Sinatra 1.0 Released: Major Milestone for Ruby’s Best Webapp DSL
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. In November 2007, we casually mentioned a new Ruby webapp library called Sinatra. It took a year to capture the imagination of the Ruby community as a whole and we eventually covered it in more depth but today we're proud to (exclusively) announce that Sinatra has today reached its landmark 1.0 release! Impromptu release p
EventMachine: Get Excited By Scalable Non-Blocking I/O
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. EventMachine is a simple(ish), fast, event-driven I/O library for Ruby. Its goal is to provide highly scalable I/O performance with an easy-to-use API wrapped around the nastiest parts of the process (since typical Ruby coding practices aren't particularly event-driven friendly). Aman Gupta has put together an awesome 114-
Harmony: JavaScript And A DOM Environment In Ruby
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Harmony, from Martin Aumont, is a new Ruby DSL for executing JavaScript and DOM-using code from within Ruby apps. Why's that cool? Well, it enables you to build your own Ruby-level unit tests for JavaScript code within your Web applications - everything can be under one set of test suites! Harmony sounds like a significant
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Racksh: A Rails-Console-A-Like for Rack-Based Ruby Apps
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Have you ever yearned for something like Rails's script/console or Merb's merb -i in your other Rack based apps? If so, then Marcin Kulik's racksh, inspired by Heroku's console, might be for you. Racksh is a console for Rack based ruby web applications. It allows you run a console in the context of an application environme
Muhammed Ali’s Free Ruby 1.9.x Web Servers E-Book
Ruby Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering the latest Ruby and Rails news. Egyptian Ruby developer Muhammed Ali (of MySQLPlus fame) has released the first draft of a "Ruby 1.9.x Web Servers" booklet. It looks at how different HTTP daemons and server libraries (Thin, Passenger, WEBrick and Mongrel) perform in Ruby 1.9.1. You can read the book for free on his site or on Scribd, but if you want to d
Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7 Released – Lower Memory Usage, Increased Speed
Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7 Released – Lower Memory Usage, Increased Speed Today Phusion has announced the release of Ruby Enterprise Edition (REE) 1.8.7 (more specifically, 1.8.7-20090928). Once considered a bit of a joke, given the name, REE has proven itself to be anything but, with significant memory usage and speed improvements over the stock "MRI" Ruby implementation (achieved by way of pa
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MacRuby 0.5 Released: A Significant, Stable Release