Wir treffen uns wie gewohnt um 19:00 Uhr im Spielplatz und freuen uns auf zahlreiche Besucher!

Mehr Informationen findet ihr unter:

Der Webmontag im Wiki
Webmontag auf Upcoming
Webmotag auf Venteria
webmontag.de
Internetwoche Köln

Alle Hacker und Thinker aus Köln und Umgebung sind herzlich wilkommen!
Mehr Informationen gibt es unter:

• http://iwcgn.koeln.de/2010/08/27/railslove/
• http://devhouse.railslove.com/events/4

Wir freuen uns sehr auf euren Besuch!

The Ruby community wishes him well and celebrates Whyday today to remember Why’s contributions to the community and culture.

The Ruby hackers here at cowoco join the celebration. So put away your best practices and create something wonderful! Head over to the whyday page to get some ideas: Try that wild idea you’ve been sitting on because it’s too crazy, teach programming to a child, see how far you can push some weird corner of ruby, …

Happy whyday!

ART && CODE Symposium: Hackety Hack, why the lucky stiff from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

One of why’s talks: ART && CODE Symposium: Hackety Hack, why the lucky stiff from STUDIO for Creative Inquiry on Vimeo.

via Coworking Cologne

Yeah.. and what is railslove really doing? The short answer is: coding, thinking about really hot applications and having a lot of fun to work with our team.

But now we’re trying something new: Railslove Research (short: RR). So we started a small independent blog, where we want to find out, how to do apis more usable and flexible for developers. Just visit our blog: http://arrrpi.posterous.com (and of course we’re building a sexy application around that…)

Es wird sich zu der Nutzung von Amazons Web Services wie EC2, S3 und anderen gemeinsam ausgetauscht. Nach zwei, drei kurzen Vorträgen zu Beginn des Treffens ist dann im Anschluss viel Platz zur regen Diskussion und fürs Networking.

Mehr Informationen findet man bei Xing

Via Coworking Cologne

Wir freuen uns auch auf zahlreichen Besuch ab Anfang Mai.

Testing CSV download is exactly the same apart from that we do not need to turn the PDF to text, simply because…it isn’t a PDF…

(From RedWritesHere)

gem install rack bundler tzinfo i18n rack rack-test rack-mount erubis mail thor

gem install rails --prerelease

We’re posting more and more stuff on our tumble blog “Railslove around the world”.

On the tumble we’re publishing all the good stuff we discover on the web, mostly ruby and web develoment related. So make sure to keep an eye on it. ;)

Must-reads

Actually all of these links are “must-reads” but for those of you with little time. Read at least these:

• official Rails 3 relase notes
• Live Coding Rails 3 upgrade a free peepcode
• Exploring Rails 3 - A Free Two Hour Online Conference
• The Path to Rails 3 - Intorduction - A very awesome introduction to the big picture of Rails 3. read it!
• Rails and Merb Merge: Rails Core (Part 4 of 6)
• Rails 3 Upgrade plugin - checks your code and gives you hints to make it Rails 3 compatible (first announcment)
• Greenfielding new apps with the Rails 3 beta

Router

• Rails 3 Router: Rack it up!
• Revamped routes in Rails 3
• Generic Actions in Rails 3

ActiveRecord / ActiveModel

• Active Record Query Interface 3.0
• Rails 3.0’s ActiveModel: How To Give Ruby Classes Some ActiveRecord Magic
• ActiveModel: Make Any Ruby Object Feel Like ActiveRecord
• Arel source code and readme
• Why Arel
• validates :rails_3, :awesome => true great post about the new validations in Rails 3

ActionMailer

• New ActionMailer API in Rails 3

Views / JavaScript

• Rails 3 XSS protection (german)
• SafeBuffers and Rails 3
• jQuery with Rails 3

Controller

• Render options in Rails 3
• Three reasons to love ActionController::Responder
• Default RESTful Rendering
• Cleaner RESTful Controllers w/ respond_with

Rack

• The CodeRack Contest
• 21 Rack Middlewares To Turbocharge Your Ruby Webapps
• Rails on Rack(not Rails 3 specific)

Gem, Plugins, Dependencies

• Bundler 0.9 - heading towards 1.0
• Bundler is the new hotness: deploying rails apps with bundler and capistrano
• Is your plugin ready for Rails 3?

Generators

• Making generators for Rails 3 with Thor
• Customizing generators in Rails 3
• Discovering Rails 3 generators

I18n

• Rails 3 I18n changes

Other great reading

• Rails now seems to act like a grown up
• Build Sinatra on Rails 3
• My five favorite things about Rails 3
• Better Ruby idioms- read this for plugin development
• Rails 3 ready plugins
• Rails 3 and Passenger
• Extending Rails 3 Talk by @wycats at pivotallabs
• Mail gem Version 2 Rails 3 is now using the new mail gem. This is a great writeup about new features in version 2

General Rails

• My Five Favorite Things About Rails 3
• Rails Module in Rails 3
• Is Rails 3 a game changer?

I’ll update this list with upcoming Rails 3 resources.

update:

1. Added link to I18n changes (thanks @ Carlos)

Wir treffen uns wie immer in unserem Büro:

Gothaer Allee 2
50969 Köln
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Wer für die weiteren DevHouses Themenvorschläge hat, oder was präsentieren möchte, der ist jederzeit eingeladen das hier anzukündigen.

Weitere Infos gibt es natürlich auch auf Twitter und Twitter

Wir freuen uns auf zahlreichen Besuch!

We already made ourselves a first christmas present two weeks ago: the new website of Kuhn, Kammann & Kuhn - a Cologne-based business communication agency. Well, more precisely: the guys from Kuhn, Kammann & Kuhn made theirselves a first christmas present, but nevertheless it's also a great pleasure for us to see this jewel (ruby!) of a website working and growing in public.

Back in october, when Wendelin from KKK asked us to build their new agency website, we thought "well, usually we're building complex web apps, rarely corporate websites", but then their way to deal with both editorial and aggregated social media content in a constantly changing grid layout foo¹ grabbed our attention. And now, after eight days of exciting agile cooperation and several feature iterations, it's done - and online.

What's so special about this website?

On the one hand it's this mix of a tag-based navigation and a flexible grid of content objects. No more static sitemaps! Tags basically work as content filters, but it's not done at this point here: Every content object has its lifetime and is constantly fading until it isn't visible anymore. In addition to the tags and visibilities of an object, every collection of content objects is a well prepared composition of different content types, which gets slightly shuffled to look nicer without loosing the chronology of its items. Finally all objects are positioned and animated by a piece of JavaScript, which handles any combination of small and large boxes.

Hands on Superfeedr

Beside their editorial content, the KKK people want to aggregate a bunch of Twitter-Accounts and Weblogs constantly. Because we don't like the hassle with grabbing and parsing a growing number of feeds, we're using the Superfeedr API for the first time in this project. There's a handy (but incomplete) Rails plugin on Github you might want to use to subscribe and unsubscribe to feeds, but the HTTP POST notification parsing part isn't covered. So Feedzirra helped us to get down to the beef. After two weeks of running the app with Superfeedr we're not missing one feed entry, but the time period between publishing a tweet and Superfeedr's POST notification is often longer than the promised 15 minutes - yet. We'll see, seems like a painless feed grabbing solution anyway, if real-time doesn't mean instant delivery in your biz.

Enjoy surfing the new website of Kuhn, Kammann & Kuhn!

¹ It’s hard to find the right words. You have to see feel it…

As you might know, we three, Tim, Michael and I, started Railslove two years ago. However, in our project we work with many other great web developers who deserve to get mentioned. So, to give you a better insight into our network, we’re going to reveal the “Railslove Family” over the next few weeks.

Yours,
Jan, Tim and Michael

(Photo by El_Enigma)

Bis Freitag, wir freuen uns!

Update: Wir schlagen Freitag ca. 19 Uhr vor.

One more thing: Ich habe heute meine Objectified DVD erhalten. Wenn Ihr Lust habt, könnten wir im Anschluss noch den Film gucken. Dauer: 75 Min. Für einen Beamer sorge ich (hoffentlich klappt das).