Pow, IPv6 and localhost
Pow is a new zero-configuration server for Rack web applications by 37Signals. It makes development, especially on multiple applications, painless: it adds a new .dev domain, with individual apps...
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Unit Testing Cocoa with MacRuby
I spend most of my development time split between Rails and iOS. Each offers a rich API that makes building projects much more productive and enjoyable. There is one place, however, that Ruby clobbers...
View Article“I heard you liked files”
Josh Susser on the proliferation of lazily-named configuration files: Just because your configuration file’s contents are written in a DSL does not mean you should pretend it’s not Ruby anymore. The...
View ArticleBundler 1.1 Prerelease is Worth It
In two posts from last year, Pat Shaughnessy discusses why Bundler 1.1 will be much faster and how to use some of the new features. Ordinarily, I avoid prerelease gems because I don’t want to risk the...
View ArticleSold on Homebrew
I’ve been a MacPorts user for a very long time, so when I heard about Homebrew, I looked into it, but didn’t see anything compelling enough to convince me to switch. That changed today. I’m starting a...
View ArticleRubyMotion
Yesterday, Laurent Sansonetti announced RubyMotion, the first product from his new company, HipByte. Laurent is the creator of MacRuby and worked on it part-time while an employee at Apple. RubyMotion...
View ArticleTable37
I’m pleased to announce that our biggest project to date is now available on the App Store and Google Play. Table37 is a full-featured restaurant management system. When Table37 came to us with the...
View ArticleSpeed Up MRI Ruby 1.9
Making the rounds recently is a patch for MRI Ruby 1.9.3 from funny-falcon. It backports some changes coming in Ruby 2.0 that improve start-up time and method lookup. A second version of his patch also...
View ArticleSending JSON Post Data in an Integration Test
Last night I ran into a vexing problem. I had an API endpoint in a Rails app I developed for a customer that accepts request parameters in both the classic application/x-www-form-urlencoded content...
View ArticleDTrace
Mark Dalrymple, a co-founder of CocoaHeads, regular CocoaConf speaker and Big Nerd, recently wrote a series of posts about DTrace: What’s neat about DTrace is that this happens dynamically (hence the...
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