Configuring ActiveRecord in Sinatra
We’ve just released another Sinatra screencast on configuring ActiveRecord in Sinatra applications.
Enjoy!
Building a URL Shortener in Ruby with Sinatra
We’ve just released a free screencast to show you how to build a URL shortener with ActiveRecord and Sinatra.
Introducing RubyHelpers
I am pleased to announce RubyHelpers gem.
When building lightweight Ruby apps in Sinatra and the like, I often need some extra functionality that Ruby doesn’t have baked in. I end up repeating snippets of code hear and there. I thought I’d bundle it in a gem for my own use and contribute it to the Ruby community.
I have extended Object to include the blank? similar to that found in Rails. For example “”.blank?, nil.blank?, {}.blank?, [].blank? etc
I have extended String to have to_html to use RedCloth to convert textile to (X)HTML. For example “h1. *Hello World*”.to_html would produce “<h1><strong>Hello World</strong></h1>”
I have extended Hash to have dot notation to access values via keys and to have {key}_exists? method too. For example person.first_name instead of person[“first_name”], person.phone_numbers.office person.phone_numbers.mobile_exists?
The Hash extension is really handy after parsing a JSON object. It feels so much nicer to access values via dot notation.
So start using it in your projects:
sudo gem install rubyhelpers
Check out the docs and contribute other RubyHelpers on good old GitHub.
