What’s New In Ruby

February 2012

Ruby on Rails 3.2 released

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/

• Faster development mode
• End of Ruby 1.8.7

• puts Person.active.limit(5).explain

• Automatically shows when > half a second
• TaggedLogger

ActiveRecord Store

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  store :settings, accessors: [ :color, :homepage ]
end

u = User.new(color: 'black', homepage: '37signals.com')
u.color # Accessor stored attribute

  # Any attribute, even if not specified with an accessor
u.settings[:country] = 'Denmark'

RubyMine 4.0 released

http://blog.jetbrains.com/ruby/2012/02/rubymine-4-is-here-to-make-you-feel-the-productivity/

RubyMine is a popular Ruby and Rails IDE by JetBrains (the folks behind IntelliJ IDEA).

A focus has been put on improving its performance and UI, but it now also supports all of Rails 3.2 features, including CoffeeScript compilation right from the IDE.

Spree 1.0 Released

http://spreecommerce.com/

Spree is almost certainly the most popular, fully featured Rails-based e-commerce system and its creators are proud to announce the release of version 1.0.0.

Strano

https://github.com/joelmoss/strano
The Github backed Capistrano deployment management UI.

Guard::RSpectacle

https://github.com/netzpirat/guard-rspectacle
Guard::RSpectacle automatically tests your application with RSpec when files are modified.

Lightning Talks

• Samuel Mullen: using search provider shortcuts in Google Chrome, blog post
• Jaime Bellmyer: searching with leap2
• Advanced REST Client: help view API responses with Chrome app link

The Kansas City skyline at night.  Very nice picture.

Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins art museum has an installation of four giant shuttlecocks on the lawn.  A great place to take friends for a picture when you’re bored.