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ActiveValidators 1.3.0 has been released! gem install activevalidators Read on for the full changelog. ...

TL;DR Rake > 0.8.7 has a handy Rake::Task#locations method that makes it damn easy to know where a task is defined or enhanced. During the last LyonRb meetup we read a quite large portion of Rake’s source code. The idea was to find an easy way to determine what file was defining/enhancing what task. Richard and I just opened Rake 0.8.7’s source code (from our local machine’s RVM directory) and started hacking a bit to have that feature… ...

Que de monde pour ce nouvel apéro Ruby à Lyon. L’élément encourageant étant que le groupe ne descend plus en dessous de la douzaine! Quatre nouvelles têtes: Marion, Michel, Vincent et Richard. Bienvenue à vous! Les discussions se sont rapidement orientées sur le StartUp Weekend Lyon, où Vincent, JM, Pierre-Alexandre et Frédéric ont eu pour mission de faire un peu se prosélytisme :) Côté technique, nous avons eu un peu de temps pour: Disséquer Rake afin de trouver un moyen simple pour retrouver où une tâche est définie Discuter RESTful API et l’utilisation de l’entête Accept pour effectuer le versioning. Philosopher sur les frameworks MVC comme ASP.NET MVC (beaucoup de respect pour Scott Guthrie et le travail de son équipe), Symfony. Je n’ai pas réussi à parler de Seaside (Smalltalk)… je ne désespère pas! ...

Encore de nouvelles têtes! ...

I made this plugin when we migrated to Rails 3. It basically prevents the development team from triggering any database query from the views. ...

Bien que cela fasse plus d’un mois que la dernière rencontre des “Rubyistes” Lyonnais (disons Rhône-Alpins) ait eu lieu, je ne trouve que maintenant (à moins d’une semaine du prochain apéro) le temps de le commenter… Je pense qu’il s’agit du premier apéro qui réunit tant de personnes. Nous étions une bonne douzaine (14?), dont Philippe de retour du Canada, Guillaume et bien d’autres curieux qui rejoignent nos rangs. Philippe a pu présenter ActiveAdmin, un projet assez intéressant qui permet de monter des interfaces d’administrations assez facilement, et qui fournit une DSL assez bien pensée. ...

Trying out a new blog engine. Pretty simple backend: everything is stored on Github so publicly accessible.

The RubyCamp Lyon 2010 took place yesterday, Saturday 17th. I was great meeting all those people interested in Ruby, for both professional and amateur matters. Eyrolles was sponsoring the event and offered 10 books (I didn’t win one though - that’s for the sucking part :)). I also obtained a last-minute sponsoring from Engine Yard, but as I obtained the required info the night before the presentation, I only showed a little bit the interface but didn’t do anything real with it. Instead, I used Heroku and presented the 60-second deployment stuff. I think I made my point there: configuring servers and low-level stuff isn’t fun anymore, let’s put the application at the center of all. ...

Rails 3 brings a lot of useful features. The main one, in my humble opinion, is the introduction of the classes Rails::Railtie and Rails::Engine. They bring the modularity that made code more reusable and easily integrable in your current code base. They also prove that there no reason to say that Rails is not ready for the Enterprise. One quick tip for the party poopers (you know who you are ;)): JRuby makes things even easier for your development operations team members as it allows you to run your Ruby app (ie: Rails) within your favorite App Server (Websphere, Tomcat, you name them). ...

Thanks to Luciano (@lucianosb) Live-Note has got its own Google Chrome Extension. He even shot a video about it: ...