Ruby on Rails: Screencasts. Rails Installer. Blog of Ryan Bigg - Ubuntu, Ruby, RVM, Rails, and You. Unlimited | PeepCode Screencasts for Web Developers and Alpha Geeks. AppSumo: A Discount Bundle of Webapp Credits Suited to Ruby Developers. By Peter Cooper / November 14, 2010 AppSumo is an intriguing "bad ass developer bundle" that brings together $1543 of credit for ten different Web app development related resources (most are Ruby focused or have Ruby APIs) for a mere $47 purchase.
The services include: Twilio - an API driven telephony service (I use this — it's great)Heroku - the Ruby webapp hosting environmentHoptoad - the errors notification serviceNew Relic - the performance monitoring and application management serviceAs well as Recurly, SendGrid, MongoHQ, SauceLabs, Infochimps and Linode. Sadly I'm already signed up with most of these services and most of the credits are for new or upgraded accounts only, but if you want to give any of the above services a try or want to build a new app that relies on them, this looks like a steal. I also need to put a big fat disclaimer here in case you have problems with AppSumo: I'm not related to AppSumo, getting nothing from them (shame!) A Look Into Ruby’s Object Model.
By Peter Cooper / November 3, 2010 A few days ago, Burke Libbey, a Winnipeg based Ruby and Rails developer, gave a presentation called Ruby's Object Model: Metaprogramming and Other Magic to the Winnipeg.rb Ruby user group. I though it was interesting enough to embed here. Presentations about metaprogramming and how the Ruby object model works are hardly anything new, but Burke has approached it in a friendly, easy to understand (though terse - but that's why it's a presentation) fashion, despite including the relevant C from MRI on the slides.
Topics covered include how classes and objects are represented and related to each other, how singleton classes work, how method lookups work, and.. Note: If your reader doesn't support embedded presentations, click here to see the presentation on Slideshare. How Santiago Pastorino Went From Ruby Newbie to Rails Core in 2 Years.
Michael Hartl’s 15 Hours of Rails 3 Screencasts. By Peter Cooper / October 13, 2010 Have you seen Michael Hartl's RailsTutorial.org? It's a free online "book" that walks you through from start to finish with building either a Rails 2.3 or Rails 3.0 app (though a $39 PDF rendering is also available). After finishing the book, Michael set to work on some screencasts covering the same ground in video form and it's now released: the The Ruby on Rails Tutorial screencasts, clocking in at over 15 hours of content, are now live. Michael's project is the latest in a line of self publishing efforts in the Ruby and Rails communities and it's gone down a storm on Hacker News.
Michael did such a great job with the free content that you know the videos are going to be easy to follow and value packed. I got review access to all of the material a week ago and can confirm that, yes, these screencasts are awesome (as long as watching over 15 hours of screencasts is your cup of tea).