Rails

I recently launched a website that among other things displays "tweets" (status messages on Twitter) from a predefined set of Twitter users. In this article I'll show you how you can create a stateful Twibot bot with a custom handler to put tweets in your database using ActiveRecord from a Rails application.

Full article Collecting tweets with Twibot and ActiveRecord.

Over the past few days I've been adding some bits and pieces that has really pimped by development environment into a slightly more productive one, and certainly a more enjoyable one.

Full article Pimp my development environment!.

Liquid is a "safe, customer facing template language for flexible web apps". It's limited capabilities makes it the perfect email templating tool when you'd like designers and content producers to be able to edit and create email templates.

Full article Liquid email templates in Rails.

I've finally gotten around to checking out mod_rails. As it turns out, it was every bit as simple and impressing as I had suspected. Here's how I set up a multi-staging environment using mod_rails and Capistrano.

Full article Multi-staging environment for Rails using Capistrano and mod_rails.