GemAWeek

GemAWeek Episode 9 - Tourbus

Website load testing tool in Ruby, with the ability to "unload a busload of tourists" on a website, each with the ability to trace through complex application paths.

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Tourbus

Me: Guess what.

You: What?

Me: GemAWeek is having a site design contest!

You: Holy crap, that's awesome! I want in on this one.

Me: Wait just a second. There are a couple of things you need to be privy to first.

You: Ugh. Lay it on me.

Me: The rules:

The contest will run until 8 September 2011 and unless I have not chosen a winner.

Submissions should be in the form of Photoshop PSD or Fireworks PNG files (sorry GIMP people but I ain't dealing with compatibility issues). Please make sure to use layers and label them semantically.

If you want to improve the logo, please get my permission first.

All submissions will be property of GemAWeek and may not be used on any other site. I reserve the right to use/modify the layout as I wish.

You: Sounds great. What's in it for me?

Me: You get ad space (300x250) for the life of the layout. You also get priority if/when we want to update the layout. I will also give you a mention and mad props for three shows after the new site goes live.

You: Cool. Where do I send my entry.

GemAWeek Episode 8 - Rubinius Day

This week's episode is a little different. In celebration of Rubinius Day, I wanted to show how easy it is to create a gem and used Rubinius to do so. This is based on Steve Klabnik's presentation called Teachmehowtomakearubygem.

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Rubinius

Steve Klabnik's Presentation

Presentation Slides

GemAWeek Episode 7 - Twitter

A Ruby wrapper for the Twitter REST and Search APIs

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Code Repository

Twitter Gem Homepage

GemAWeek Episode 6 - Omnisocial

A Rails 3 engine for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn logins using OmniAuth

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Omnisocial

GemAWeek Episode 5 - RABL

RABL (Ruby API Builder Language) is a Rails and Padrino ruby templating system for generating JSON and XML.

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RABL on Github

Code Repository

Miso on to_json

GemAWeek Episode 4 - Navigasmic

Semantic navigation; a semantic way to build beautifully simple navigation structures in Rails.

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I haven't published a new episode yet because I've had recording issues. I'm trying to make sure the quality is good and feel that I need to start over this episode from scratch. Should have it up later this week.

GemAWeek Episode 3 - Capybara

I did this screencast a couple weeks ago as an audition for Code School. It's a bit longer than the other GemAWeek episodes but I wanted to include it on here. Capybara aims to simplify the process of integration testing Rack applications, such as Rails, Sinatra or Merb. Capybara simulates how a real user would interact with a web application. It is agnostic about the driver running your tests and currently comes with Rack::Test and Selenium support built in. HtmlUnit and env.js are supported through external gems.

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GemAWeek Episode 2 - Active Admin

Active Admin is a framework for creating administration style interfaces. It abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.

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Code Respository

Active Admin

Update 14 June 2011:

GemAWeek Episode 1 - Geocoder

The first episode of GemAWeek. Geocoder is a Ruby library for adding geocoding to your Ruby application and is written by Alex Reisner.

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Code Repository

So apparently you found this little site called GemAWeek.

"What is that?" you say to your imaginary friend, Rupert.

Rupert replies, "Only the greatest screencast site ever! Watch videos that focus on adding one Rubygem to your gem arsenal every week."

"How much does it cost?" you say.