Monthly Archives: December 2009

Quick tip: Use APIdock to hunt down missing methods

Published: December 22nd, 2009
From time to time, we all to have step into older projects and add features. Suddenly that old standby method you’d come to love is giving you a method_missing. How do you go about finding out which version of Rails introduced it so you can upgrade or monkey patch? APIdock has your back.

The Twitter gem now supports Tumblr

Published: December 18th, 2009
On the heels of the announcement that Tumblr now supports the Twitter API, we’re happy to say the Twitter gem now supports Tumblr!

Use JavaScript to put GitHub info on your site

Published: December 15th, 2009
In case you missed it, Adam and I launched a new blog and are six episodes into a new podcast where we bring you what’s fresh and new in open source software. Our goal is to scour the depths of GitHub (and other sources) to highlight the cool new and newly released open source projects. [...]

Speed up your API development, sniff your network calls on OSX with HTTPScoop

Published: December 7th, 2009
HTTPScoop from Tuffcode is a neat way to see what network calls are going on from all the applications in OS X. It’s perfect for debugging API calls or creating fixtures for API wrapper tests.

Add a retweet button to your Rails app easily with the Backtweets helper

Published: December 2nd, 2009
On this blog, I use the excellent Socialize plugin to easily add social sharing buttons to each post. For Twitter, I chose to configure Socialize to use Backtweets for displaying tweet counts mainly because it’s more configurable than the TweetMeme widget. When I needed a Backtweets widget for a client Rails application, I whipped up [...]