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nubyonrails.com is a personal blog at nubyonrails.com about programming and web. Since 2007, 18 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN comments link this Rails blog as a reference for Rails developer tooling: gem vendoring, sparklines, uptime monitoring, editors and CSS graphs. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-08-14
- 5 Minutes of Emacs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-12-06
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of developing rails apps way back in the day before RVM gemsets or bundler came along. You'd vendor all the gems (& specific version for your app) into `vendor/gems` ala http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/12/22/freeze-other-gems...
Comment linking /articles/2005/12/22/freeze-other-gems-to-rails-lib-directory
on “Reproducible Builds in Go”Submitted Five Features from Mercurial That Would Make Git Suck Less as a story · 37 points
HN discussionJoel's book is a great introduction and a must read if you haven't taken a look before. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.... Jakob Neilson's site is a treasure trove of usability information. http://www.useit.com/ 37 Signals will often write blog posts outlining particular design decisions in their products. http://www.37signals.com/svn/ For a more specific topic, I have been researching t…
Comment linking /articles/get-rhythm-in-your-baseline
on “Ask news YC: Your best sources to learn about design & usability”Submitted Ask Your Doctor About mod_rails as a story · 16 points
HN discussionGeoffrey Grosenbach has a Ruby library for generating Sparklines: http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2005/07/28/sparklines-graph-... And, as usual, Why the Lucky Stiff has a wacky minimalist one: http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/sparklinesForMinimalists....
Comment linking /articles/2005/07/28/sparklines-graph-library-for-ruby
on “Sparklines: theory and practice”Submitted 5 Minutes of Emacs as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSome people seem to be investigating Emacs, from the world that had Textmate become popular! http://nubyonrails.com/articles/emacs-emacs I've personally jumped to Vim. Mostly beacuse I do some sysadmin and now it's much less annoying editing config files, but also so I can jump from OS X and still be able to work.
Comment linking /articles/emacs-emacs
on “Be Patient For TextMate 2”Submitted Dynamic CSS as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI use two different scripts: 1. dwatch http://nubyonrails.com/articles/2006/03/29/surviving-rails-1... 2. a PHP script that accesses a URL on the other server; if the server does not respond as expected, it sends me a SMS and emails the server admin
Comment linking /articles/2006/03/29/surviving-rails-1-1-with-server-monitoring
on “Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server/site uptime?”Submitted Massive List of Rails Development Tips as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThey are flash graphs that are XML-driven. We pondered CSS graphs (there's a great Rails helper for 'em here: http://nubyonrails.com/pages/css_graphs), but ultimately went with flash because there was a bit less code and they were a touch prettier. I still waffle on that particular decision.
Comment linking /pages/css_graphs),
on “Web Biz: How to have 4,000 Users Waiting When You Launch”Submitted Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improve Your Technical Slides as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Overview of Rails hosting options from a Rails dev as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned from Three Years of PeepCode as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Graphing Engine for Ruby as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beanstalk Messaging Queue as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Future of Web Apps Conference Review as a story · 1 points
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