Capistrano Version 3 - 7 reasons to be excited about deployment
In the Ruby world, Capistrano has been the de-facto standard for deploying applications since it’s release in 2006. This summer however, it’s time to get excited about deployment again - version three is on the edge of a beta release and this feels like the perfect time to share some of the features about which I’m most excited.
Contributing to Open Source projects with give
Vim - My .vimrc Highlights
Moving from TextMate to Vim is probably the most significant change I’ve made to my daily development over the last year - and I’m amazed by how much difference it’s made. A few weeks back though a blog post convinced me to go one step further - I took a deep breath and deleted my entire vim install.
Google fish - a tiny gem for Google Translate API V2
As Google Translate API v2 has now launched, I looked around for a gem we could quickly plug in and was surprised to find only the google-api-ruby-client - which for our needs seemed to come with a lot of dead weight. Given we only require a very limited feature set, I decided to build a tiny gem to meet just that need.