tag:www.clerb.org,2009:/ tag:www.clerb.org,2010-04-23:/posts/posts/looking-for-a-leader <p> From: </p> <p>Some of you have probably been wondering what has been going on with the Cleveland Ruby Brigade lately. We haven&#8217;t been meeting consistently and meetings have been planned with very short notice. The simple reason for that is: me. I&#8217;ve been running the group for two years now with help off and on from other members. Over the past couple years my goals have evolved and running the user group doesn&#8217;t fit in as much anymore. I apologize that I waited so long to do this; quality has definitely been waning and it is my fault. It&#8217;s difficult to admit that I can&#8217;t handle something anymore, especially when I have to do so publicly. I hope you all can forgive me.</p> <p>I do not want to see this group fall apart. Therefore, it&#8217;s time for me to pass the torch. I am looking to you, the members, for a new leader. Someone who has a passion for Ruby and software craftsmanship. You don&#8217;t need to do Ruby full time to run CleRB (I was still a .NET developer when I started the group). The leader&#8217;s responsibilities include notifying people of meetings, planning when meetings will be held, working with sponsors, etc. It is well worth the work to see the Ruby community grow and prosper here in Cleveland.</p> <p>If you are interested in running the group please contact me at <strong>organizer</strong> at <strong>clerb</strong> dot <strong>org</strong>. I will help as much as I need to to ensure a smooth transition, and would happily continue to be involved however necessary as time goes on. You will not be alone. Many great members have been willing to jump in when needed and I&#8217;m sure they will continue to do so in the future.</p> <p> <a href="/posts/looking-for-a-leader" title="Looking for a Leader">permalink</a> </p> 2010-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.clerb.org,2010-03-31:/posts/posts/sass-3-beta-released <p> From: <a href='http://www.nex-3.com'>Nathan Weizenbaum</a> </p> <p>If you aren&#8217;t familiar with <a href='http://www.sass-lang.com'>Sass</a> it&#8217;s a preprocessor for CSS. Think of it as a CSS view engine. It allows you to reuse whatever pieces/parts of your stylesheets you want, and provides a much cleaner syntax for defining selectors. One of the biggest complaints I&#8217;ve heard about it is that it is <strong>too</strong> different from CSS which makes for a higher learning curve. Today brings us the first beta of Sass 3, which includes an alternative syntax that is a true subset of CSS, meaning your CSS will work <strong>as is</strong> in Sass. If you already use Sass, make sure you read <a href='http://beta.sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SCSS_FOR_SASS_USERS.html'>SCSS for Sass Users</a>.</p> <p> <a href="/posts/sass-3-beta-released" title="Sass 3 Beta Released!">permalink</a> </p> 2010-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.clerb.org,2010-03-30:/posts/posts/the-lowdown-on-routes-in-rails3 <p> From: <a href='http://www.engineyard.com'>Engine Yard</a> </p> <p>Rails 3.0 comes with loads of improvements to the Rails routing DSL. Check out this post to learn about the changes and how to use them!</p> <p> <a href="/posts/the-lowdown-on-routes-in-rails3" title="The Lowdown on Routes in Rails 3">permalink</a> </p> 2010-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.clerb.org,2010-03-29:/posts/posts/sinatra-1-0 <p> From: <a href='http://www.rubyinside.com'>Ruby Inside</a> </p> <p>If you don&#8217;t know about <a href='http://www.sinatrarb.com'>Sinatra</a> yet, now is the time to learn. Sinatra is a small web framework for those web apps that don&#8217;t need the full power of Rails, but are too complex to stay static. The authors have just hit the 1.0 milestone, and I can say it has matured since <a href='http://vimeo.com/2374819'>I first used it in 2008</a>. In fact, it&#8217;s running this site right now!</p> <p> <a href="/posts/sinatra-1-0" title="Sinatra 1.0 Released">permalink</a> </p> 2010-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.clerb.org,2010-03-26:/posts/posts/supermodel-active-model <p> From: <a href='http://www.rubyinside.com'>Ruby Inside</a> </p> <p>If you&#8217;ve ever wished to be able to use the power of ActiveRecord (callbacks, validations, observers, etc) without the need to persist to disk this is the ORM for you. Supermodel implements Rails 3.0&#8217;s ActiveModel spec to give full Rails compatibility with the speed of in-memory processing.</p> <p> <a href="/posts/supermodel-active-model" title="Supermodel: Simple ActiveModel-Powered In-Memory Models">permalink</a> </p> 2010-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.clerb.org,2010-03-24:/posts/posts/rails-and-the-enterprise <p> From: <a href='http://weblog.rubyonrails.org'>Riding Rails</a> </p> <p>I get this question a lot: is Rails really usable in the enterprise? Not only is it usable, it&#8217;s being used by giants like <a href='http://www.yellowpages.com'>AT&amp;T</a>, Chase, Sony, etc. This article revisits some of the old arguments and explains why they just aren&#8217;t true anymore. If you&#8217;re trying to convince your company to make the switch, this may help.</p> <p> <a href="/posts/rails-and-the-enterprise" title="Rails and the Enterprise">permalink</a> </p> 2010-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.clerb.org,2010-03-21:/posts/posts/first-class-functions-printf <p> From: <a href='http://slightlynew.blogspot.com'>Slightly New</a> </p> <p>Lee gives a great explanation of bindings by showing how we can use them to make debugging easier. I like that he works from a very simple example all the way up to a Sinatra app.</p> <p> <a href="/posts/first-class-functions-printf" title="First-class functions make printf-debugging obsolete">permalink</a> </p> 2010-03-21T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.clerb.org,2010-03-17:/posts/posts/stackoverflow-cool-ruby-questions-four <p> From: <a href='http://www.khelll.com/blog/'>Khaled alHabache&#8217;s official blog</a> </p> <p>4 great questions about Ruby metaprogramming asked on StackOverflow. Includes the answers. I definitely learned a couple things reading it.</p> <p> <a href="/posts/stackoverflow-cool-ruby-questions-four" title="StackOverflow cool Ruby questions 4">permalink</a> </p> 2010-03-17T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.clerb.org,2010-03-16:/posts/posts/git-plus-hub-equals-github <p> From: <a href='http://defunkt.github.com/'>defunkt</a> </p> <p><a href='http://git-scm.com'>Git</a> is great. <a href='http://github.com'>Github</a> makes it even better. Now imagine if the two got together. Now they have. Hub tells git how to interact with Github. If you keep your projects on Github, this is well worth checking out.</p> <p> <a href="/posts/git-plus-hub-equals-github" title="Git + Hub = Github">permalink</a> </p> 2010-03-16T00:00:00+00:00 tag:www.clerb.org,2010-03-15:/posts/posts/ruby-on-rails-101 <p> From: <a href='http://advance2030.wordpress.com'>Advance 20/30</a> </p> <p>A collection of links to help you get started using Ruby on Rails on any platform.</p> <p> <a href="/posts/ruby-on-rails-101" title="Ruby on Rails 101">permalink</a> </p> 2010-03-15T00:00:00+00:00