Luca Guidi

For all of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, **Click to Globalize** is a Rails plugin for in-place translations.

There are many dark corners and hidden features in a big framework like **Rails**.

I created a patch for run engine’s migrations ~ I created a patch for run engine’s migrations, it adds two Rake tasks: db:migrate:engines db:migrate:engines:down The first one allows to run all the migrations stored in the db/migrate directory of each plu…

Sam Stephenson has recently released a Javascript preprocessor called Sprockets.

Getting started with CachedModels from Luca Guidi on Vimeo.

In the previous article I showed how to take the advantage of Javascript for page caching.

Rails offer a multi-level view caching based on: page, action and fragment.

I’m back and I wanna share those simple snippets with you: ~ class Hash def deep_has_key?

Yesterday I confessed how messed up was CachedModels 0.0.2.

Since I began to work as professional developer I learned a lot of stuff, but, first of all I learned to be honest with customers and with the Community.

CachedModels hit 0.0.2.

I’ve just released a new version of Sashimi (0.2.1), it fixes a bug for Ubuntu.

cached_models provides to your models a transparent approach to use Rails internal cache mechanism.

Ruby’s Time has a bug: when try to serialize an timezoned time, then unserialize it back, the result will use the server local time, instead of use the original time zone. >> utc = Time.now.utc => Fri Aug 29 09:07:37 UTC 2008 >> marshaled = Marshal.dump u…

Click to Globalize is ready for Rails 2.1!

Sashimi has just hit 0.2.0!

Here a getting started tutorial for Sashimi.

I just released a new version of Sashimi, with tiny fixes and a new home!

I’m proud to announce my presence as speaker at the RailsConf Europe 2008 with a speech on Click to Globalize.

I took inspiration from the Pratik Naik post, and realized a more simplistic version of its Rails single file app.

Did you ever used class methods inside your instance methods?

I’ve recently discovered the very interesting Steven Levithan post about the JavaScript’s trim function of the String class.

On yesterday I announced Sashimi and now it’s already time of tasteful updates.

I have a really, really bad memory: each time I need to install a Rails plugin, I Google to find the repository, then try to download the code.

Acts As Resource is ready for the imminent Rails 2.1!

Click to Globalize has been rewritten, in order to use all instance methods of the JavaScript class, instead of class methods.

You know how tests are fundamental for a well-developed project, for this reason we should create step-by-step a net of test cases.

Bit.Fall by Julius Popp.

Hello, I’m still alive and I want to share a useful JavaScript class: Resizeable.js.

SAX is an event-driven parser for XML.

The video tutorial for Click to Globalize is now available in high resolution: Click To Globalize: Getting Started.

MondoPOP is a permanent expo of Pop toys, located in Rome.

I’m writing this post as contribution to the Campagna Anti-IF (Anti-IF Campaign).

Often our model objects leaning toward to be confused or noisy, due to validations DSLs.

I met Subsonica during a dj-set in Rome.

JRuby e DSL View more presentations from jodosha.

I have finished to work on Click To Globalize, to made it Rails 2.0 compatible.

As you already know, Rails 2.0 it’s shipped with updated version of Prototype and Scriptaculous.

Acts As Resource is ready for Rails 2.0!!

As I previously announced Ruby on Rails 2.0 was released.

Ruby on Rails 2.0 will be released in the next hours!!

Subsonica is one of my favourite band.

In the last week-end I was at the Pop Art!

Would you use both ActiveRecord and ActiveResource in one class?

This snippet shows how to read a file and puts all the lines into an array. f = *open('file.txt').map {|l| l.rstrip} # => ["Hi, from the", "txt file."]

I’ll be at the Rome JavaDay 07 as speaker, with a presentation on JRuby and DSL.

Just a quick snippet to modify template contents before ActionView render them via ERB.

This is a guide to install Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on Parallels 3.0 and Leopard.

Sunday I went to a Stanley Kubrik exhibition in Rome.

Rails To Italy 07 conference has just started, stay tuned.