RIC ROBERTS

I’ve been working as a Ruby developer with Manchester digital agency, Stardotstar, for a few months now. Last week, I wrote my first post on the new Stardotstar blog: When thinking about web application design, it doesn’t take long before the realisation hits you: to achieve any kind of e...

It’s been a while since my last link-blog entry, so this will be quite a big list! Ruby Mustache – for logic-free views in your Ruby web apps Watchr – a replacement for autotest New Thoughtbot-designed Gemcutter site launched Getting ImageMagick and Passenger to play nicely together...

From the Swirrl Blog … Alongside developing our online database application, we spend time talking to our users and potential users about how they can manage their data. As well as being useful to them (we hope!) this helps us understand the range of problems people are facing and ge...

My second installment of “interesting” links. HTML 5 redefines ‘footer’ element Couch DBX – A quick way to get CouchDB running on your Mac. iStat Menus 2.0 – A Snow Leopard compatible verison of iStat Menus User-editable Liquid templates in the database Hosting a blog on Jekyll and G...

Another set of Ruby blogs… Caius Theory – Blog from Caius Durling, Ruby developer and Brightbox employee (who I met at last month’s NWRUG). HiveLogic – Dan Benjamin’s blog. Not 100% Ruby, but some really great stuff crops up now and then (notably his instructions for compiling Ruby on Ma...

In the course of my daily work, I come across loads of useful or interesting links, but often I don’t have time for a full-length blog post about them. (In many cases, others have already written things up better than I could have anyway). Some of the stuff I encounter I might tweet, or emai...

I’m probably a bit late to the party with this article, but I’m a bit of a chicken so I thought I’d wait for the dust to settle a bit before installing Snow Leopard on the MacBook Pro I use for Ruby development. Matt Aimonetti suggested on the official Rails blog that upgrading your Ruby dev...

Here’s your monthly dose of Ruby Blogs: Lindsay Holmwood – Web developer, sys-admin and conference speaker (who I recenty met at Rails Underground). has_many :bugs, :through => :rails – A blog by London-based Rails core member, Pratik Naik. Will’s web miscellany – Thoughts from Wil...