PUBLIC MARKS from roberto with tag ruby

There is a Firefox extension called Selenium IDE made by the folks over at OpenQA.org. It is a very easy to use and powerful tool for controlling, automating or testing web sites.

Right now, the lighttpd web server is all the rage with Ruby on Rails people, PHP people, and excellent hosting providers. Why is this? Because lighttpd is extremely lightweight, has a small footprint, scales like nobody’s business, and is fast fast fast. The internals of lighttpd are really interesting, using kqueue and other fancy asynchronous networking operating system support to really put Apache to shame. But, the internals of lighttpd are a topic for another day…

Upload progress bar for Ajax and Rails.

With just a few lines of Ruby, we can take an array of digits (0 to 100) and construct a sparkline bitmap, a miniature graph originally seen here. Best of all, it requires no additional libraries!

Rails tutorial in portuguese.

Web based presentation app.

Every problem has been solved. It is Open Source. And it is the first link on Google.

Web framework for Ruby.

Reading for tomorrow.

A simple, pure-Python or pure-Ruby, flat-file database management system, with a few twists.

Textile in Ruby.

Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes).