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Mission
To break the language barrier and help promote the work of Spain-based Ruby(±Rails) developers by spreading the word about projects, gems, plugins, articles or other material created by its members, in the hope that they may find usefulness outside of the Spanish community.
Javier Ramírez
Javier Ramírez
Blog: formatinternet.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/supercoco9
Github: github.com/javier
Projects: MailerTwitterable
projects
MailerTwitterable by Javier Ramírez
github.com/javier/mailer_twitterable
ActionMailer add-on to send twitts whenever a mail is delivered. Only selected ActionMailers will be twittered (depends on twitter gem). Work under progress
blog posts
Happy 4th birthday ASPgems published about 1 month ago by Javier Ramírez
Four years ago I thought I was at the top of my career. The company I had co-founded was starting to look much like a nine to five job and I decided to resign and accept a great position as a post-sales engineer in FatWire, where I would have the chance to improve their content [...]
SEO for developers published 4 months ago by Javier Ramírez
As a web developer, my work involves much more than just coding; many times I find myself covering topics such as user experience, scalability, reliability of the system, or metrics and analytics to track the acceptance of a site.
SEO is left many times on the hands of the marketing team, but there are many technical [...]
Slides and video for my talk “La herramienta de desarrollo definitiva” in conferencia rails 2009 published 5 months ago by Javier Ramírez
I just realized I still hadn’t published in my blog the slides and video of my talk “La herramienta de desarrollo definitiva” in conferencia rails 2009, back in november.
My talk was a reflection about web development and the relative importance of the development tools. I was defending the idea of the individual with good practices [...]
Links for 2010-02-17 [del.icio.us] published 5 months ago by Javier Ramírez
http://www.parkerfox.co.uk/labs/pixelperfect
Taps for Easy Database Transfers
Re: soap4r via https (ssl)
Links for 2010-02-16 [del.icio.us] published 5 months ago by Javier Ramírez
FFFFOUND! | design work life - Part 2
FFFFOUND! | Raymond Biesinger - Illustrators & Artists Agents – Debut Art
FFFFOUND! | New DOOMDRIPS art print titled "DEFCON:DOOM" is now up at htt... on Twitpic
FFFFOUND! | this isn't happiness.™ Peter Nidzgorski, tumblr
FFFFOUND! | unione sarda : bomboland
FFFFOUND! | Raymond Biesinger - Illustrators & Artists Agents –...
IE cache for Ajax requests published 6 months ago by Javier Ramírez
A few days ago I ran into an issue that is now obvious but took me a while to figure out. I was programming a chat client and everything was working fine in Firefox and Chrome, but when I tested it on IE (6 and 8) things were not looking so good.
This chat is following [...]
Eclipse buttons not working on Ubuntu Karmic Koala published 7 months ago by Javier Ramírez
Lately I was experiencing a strange behavior when working with Eclipse/RadRails. Some of the buttons didn’t work anymore. I could click on them, but they’d just appear as selected, without performing any actions. I had to use the enter key to actually click on the button.
Since I had run an update some days ago, I [...]
Pasting code into vi published 9 months ago by Javier Ramírez
Every time I try to paste a big chunk of code into vi, it gets all messed up because of the autoindent. Each line gets indented taking the previous one as a reference, so when I try to paste something like..
global $wp_query;
parse_str($args, $r);
if (!isset($r['current'])) [...]
Ruby on Rails on unofficial Chrome OS published 10 months ago by Javier Ramírez
update: I thought this Chrome OS distribution was THE google distro. I was wrong. It’s just someone who used SUSE Studio to make a customized version of Open SUSE around the Chromium theme. With the site being on a google site and the code on a google code repository, I thought this was it, but [...]
Ruby on Rails in Google Chrome OS published 10 months ago by Javier Ramírez
Chrome OS is by now just a bit more than a curiosity. You can go and download it, but be warned, all you are going to get is an Open Suse distribution with Chromium installed and a blue theme with a cute logo.
Starting the virtual from VirtualBox is easy. You create a new virtual media [...]
Multiple rubygems versions, GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH published 10 months ago by Javier Ramírez
Installing rubygems is failrly easy and it’s great to have a package manager so you can forget about manually installing and upgrading the components you use. After installing a gem, you can require it from any ruby script and use it hassle-free. Well, given your ruby interpreter can find it.
When you install rubygems, a lot [...]
Video of my talk “Jruby On Rails” at the Sun Open Communities Forum published 11 months ago by Javier Ramírez
I just knew the video of my talk about JRuby on Rails at the Sun Open communities Forum is already online. Funny how a google alert let me know this video has been published even before the official web page of the event was updated.
The talk is in Spanish and the slides I used [...]
it’s not the framework, it’s you published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
I’m getting tired already of the hype about Ruby on Rails and how it is better than any other framework past, present or future.
Sure Rails is a cute piece of software, and Ruby is a gorgeous language (supposing you are into programming languages, that is), but if you take a critical look at Rails, you [...]
it’s the end of the e-world as we know it published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
Five years
I’ve been working for companies that didn’t last for so long. I’ve never been working in a company for so long come to think of it ;). I’ve had best friends that didn’t last for so long either and I’ve seen plenty of marriages finishing much earlier than that.
Living on the world we live, [...]
sudo: rake: command not found published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
I hate it when it happens, don’t you?
And it’s not only rake, but some other utilities too.
Bottom line is, in Ubuntu sudo is by default set to use a secure path. You can change the secure path if you are compiling from source, but we are talking Ubuntu here, the windows for the rest of [...]
My slides for “Jruby on Rails: Ruby on Rails sobre la JVM” published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
It was interesting to be at the Sun Open Communities Forum and meet people I used to work with (or even teach to) as back in time as in 1996.
It was also interesting to have the opportunity to introduce Ruby and Ruby on Rails to Java developers and show them how they could use [...]
Speaking about JRuby on Rails at the Sun Open Communities Forum published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
I’ve been invited to speak about JRuby on Rails at the Sun Open Communities Forum. This event is the evolution of the former editions of OpenJavaDay/OpenSolarisDay, revamped to include more Open Source communities.
Apart from the predictable “all-things-java” sessions, this year there are some interesting labs and talks about MySQL Scalability, REST, AJAX, the cloud, [...]
install nokogiri and libxml on ubuntu published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
a quick one..
the scenario:
you want to install nokogiri on ubuntu but you cannot get the gem to install because of unmet dependencies
the solution:
sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
sudo gem install nokogiri
the end
EuRuKo 2009 (Barcelona’s Edition) published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
What a fantastic weekend it was.
I met interesting people, I learnt a bunch of new tricks, I had fun in the talks (and out of them too!), and it didn’t rain so we could hang out of the citilab building between sessions. win, win, win.
As you know I was a part of the organization, [...]
Cucumber, Selenium, Webrat, and Windows published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
I spent last Saturday hacking around with some really smart people in Madrid. It’s not widely known than in Spain there’s a thriving Ruby on Rails community -my guess would be a language thing- but if you take a look at some of the Rails patches, Hackfest winners or the official Rails documentation project, you [...]
Speaking at EuRuKo 2009 published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
It’s only two weeks for EuRuKo 2009, the most important Ruby conference in Europe.
As you probably know, EuRuKo is a grassroots itinerant conference, entirely organized by -and for- Ruby developers. This year, the conference will be held in Barcelona, and I have the honor of being a -tiny- part of the organization as a [...]
Parallel Assignment in Ruby and the conditional ternary operator published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
You already know how parallel assignment in Ruby works
irb(main):001:0> a,b=1,2
=> [1, 2]
irb(main):002:0> p a
1
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> p b
2
=> niland you also know how the conditional operator (the only ternary operator in Ruby) works.
irb(main):004:0> false ? a : b
=> 2so maybe you are thinking of putting that together and, given a “wadusable...
Upgrading to RadRails 1.2.1 published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
Aptana RadRails 1.2 is out there. If you are lucky enough, your Aptana installation will prompt you to upgrade and everything will go just fine.
In case your installation is a bit too old, or if you installed everything manually and when checking for updates Aptana says there’s nothing new, you can still install the latest [...]
Scotland on Rails 2009 published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
De vuelta de la conferencia Scotland on Rails me vuelvo con unas cuantas cosas aprendidas/confirmadas
a) Lo de menos son las charlas (aunque sigue siendo importante que, si las hay, sean interesantes). Lo que importa es el ambiente que se genera alrededor . Creo que el futuro de los eventos de desarrollo va por menos charlas, [...]
Rails Hot Or Not. The Movie published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
Una vez pasada la resaca de la conferencia Rails, y a punto de entrar en la resaca navideña, ya están subidos los videos de la conferencia rails 2008
Aunque pierde mucho enlatada, os dejo por aquí el video de la sesión Rails Hot Or Not
Y para que no se diga, también dejo la presentación que utilicé, [...]
instalando Google Native Client published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
Mientras buscaba información de otra cosa, me he cruzado con este post donde explican un poco de qué va native client el nuevo invento de google
La instalación parece fácil. Descomprimir un fichero y probar directamente algún ejemplo desde línea de comandos, y después de eso ejecutar un script para instalar native code como plugin de [...]
Entrevista en infoq sobre Aptana RadRails published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
Hace unos meses, Rob Bazinet, uno de los editores de InfoQ se puso en contacto conmigo para hacerme una entrevista con motivo de la publicación de mi libro sobre RadRails.
Un ratico después, aquí está el resultado
searchwords: aptana radrails, javier ramirez, book, interview
Actualizando rubygems a la versión 1.3.1 published about 1 year ago by Javier Ramírez
Hace un rato iba a instalar la última versión de merb, pero para instalar necesitaba tener al menos la versión 1.3.0 de rubygems, así que le he hecho el clásico
>gem update --system
con el siguiente resultado:
Updating RubyGems
Updating rubygems-update
Successfully installed rubygems-update-1.3.1
ERROR: While executing gem ... (NameError)
undefined local variable or method `remote_gems...
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