Developer stories, quotes and links by @vestimir
Follow @thedailywebI am going to rebuild my personal homepage with static site generator, so I choose Jekyll, because of how I love Ruby and the great community supporting it. This ebook is the best way for getting up and running, that I’ve found.
Ruby 2.0 is out and Peter Cooper has prepared a nice presentation of the key new features.
Remarkable Labs has a huge collection of posts, explaining the upcoming changes and improvements in Rails 4.
Ryan Bates of RailsCasts fame demonstrates the new things in Rails 4.
Monkey-patching can be very useful, and many patterns in Ruby are built around the ability to modify classes. It can also cause problems if a library patches code in a way the user does not expect (or want), or if two libraries try to apply conflicting patches. Sometimes, you simply don’t want patches to apply globally, and this is where refinements come in.
A preview version of the next major release of Ruby was announced at RubyConf by Matz this week, with some great new language features. We take a swing through some of the highlights below.
Turbolinks is one of the new features of Rails 4.0, basically it allows you to reload only the body of your page with a combination of ajax, cookies and hmtl5 pushState. It’s compatible with Rails 3.x, so you can give it a try right now.
