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Rack::Payment lets you add 5 lines of code to your Rails (or any Rack-based) application and you can start accepting single payments! Let’s say you have an online store and you want to accept credit card payments. You can require rack-payment in your application: 1 # config/environment.rb 2 3 Rails::Initializer.run...

“Shoes is a cross-platform toolkit for writing graphical apps easily and artfully using Ruby.” Shoes is a friggin sweet framework for making GUI applications in Ruby. There are lots of GUI toolkits out there but none of them are as easy to get up and running with & distribute as...

Sequel is an awesome Ruby library for working with databases. As opposed to ActiveRecord and DataMapper, which are based on working with model objects, Sequel is meant to be used to directly query a database, without needed to go through an object relational mapper. You can use models and associations...

At Dev Fu!, we started coding all of our new applications using DataMapper a few months back. For awhile, we were waiting for Rails 3 to be released (which has DataMapper support baked in), but we realized we were preventing ourselves from using a tool that we love (and prefer...

PHD gives you Passenger-based Heroku-like Deployment. Having been spoiled by Heroku for some time, I love being able to run 2 commands from a git repository to deploy an application: 1 $ heroku create my-app 2 $ git push heroku master If you have Passenger installed on a server, you...

I wanted to get started with Facebook development, so I made a little badge: Facebook Github Badge In this screencast, I walk through the basics of creating something similar. We … setup a Facebook application get it setup so we can test it (running on our local computer) render HTML...

Now that GemCutter is becoming the standard host for gems, deploying gems couldn’t be easier! We no longer need tools like hoe, newgem, bones, jeweler or others. Sure, these tools may still be useful, but we don’t need them to create simple gems! Let’s say you have a Ruby file...

People often ask me how to get started programming Ruby. Whether you’re an experienced programmer, or you’ve never programmed before, this screencast will hopefully give you a good introduction to how to program with Ruby. (see screencast below) Try Ruby! One of my favorite resources for learning Ruby is Try...

Tonight, at the Phoenix Android meeting, someone asked if I knew any good Ruby / Rails web hosts. Something easy for someone who’s just learning Rails and wants to be able to essentially copy/paste their code to a server and have it “just work.” The first (and only) service that...

In my previous screencast, I showed you how you can get up and running quickly with Ruby on Windows. In this screencast, I show you how I think you can get up and running correctly with Ruby on Windows. With Ruby development, it’s generally assumed that the developer is on...