The Rambling Trie has reached its 0.4.2 version. This one includes the before mentioned changes for the trie instance to behave as an Enumerable.

• ruby
• trie
• rambling-trie
• gem
• rubygems
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• data-structure

As done with the jQuery Rambling Slider previously on this week, and as I promised on that post as well, the Rambling Trie now has its own homepage on ramblinglabs.com! Here's the link:

• ruby
• trie
• rambling-trie
• gem
• rubygems
• plugins-and-libraries
• new-site
• data-structure
• performance

Last week, I watched Ryan Bates' Syntax Highlighting RailsCast and wanted to apply what I had just learned right away, using pygments.

• ruby
• ruby-on-rails
• rails
• pygments
• pygments.rb
• pygmentize
• heroku
• syntax
• highlight
• syntax-highlighting

The jQuery Rambling Slider now has its own dedicated section here on ramblinglabs.com. Here's the link: jQuery Rambling Slider | A CoffeeScript improved version of the Nivo Slider

• jquery
• plugin
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• rambling-slider
• rambling
• slider
• image
• content
• nivo-slider
• new-site
• rambling-slider-rails
• rails

Version 0.1.0 of the rambling-slider-rails gem is here!
And it includes a major bug fix.

• rambling-slider-rails
• rambling-slider
• rails
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• nivo-slider
• rubygems
• ruby
• gem

Version 0.4.1 of the Rambling Trie is here. It has some minor performance improvements over previous versions, changes in file/directoy structure, as well as a new API entry point, other API methods and more documentation.

• ruby
• trie
• rambling-trie
• gem
• rubygems
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• data-structure
• performance

As I explained before on the Rails 3.1 - Adding custom 404 and 500 error pages post, sometimes you might want to have a custom way to handle your not found and internal server errors. In that case we wanted to show the error with a custom template.

• ruby
• rails
• 404
• 500
• exception_notification
• error-handling
• instructions

About three weeks ago, I had to use the jQuery Rambling Slider together with the Rails asset pipeline...
It was a headache and a total mess... Having to change all the references to the images on the CSS file, as well as the themes was not as smooth as I would like that to be.

• rambling-slider-rails
• rambling-slider
• rails
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• nivo-slider
• rubygems
• ruby
• gem

One thing that tends to happen with Git, is being careless with what you add to your repository.
I've seen this happen since I began using Git, a couple years ago, and it stays happening over and over again, for various reasons.

• git
• github
• bash
• rewriting
• history
• repository
• filter-branch
• instructions

The new version of the rambling-trie gem is out!
As I said on my previous post, the rambling-trie is an implementation of the Trie data structure in Ruby.

• ruby
• trie
• rambling-trie
• gem
• rubygems
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• data-structure
• performance

We're proud to announce that our first gem is here!

• ruby
• trie
• rambling-trie
• gem
• rubygems
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• data-structure

As I said in my last post, for our new site, we changed our blog engine from WordPress to the Postmarkdown gem. At the end of that post, I mentioned that we had to migrate the old posts from WordPress to Markdown.

• blog
• posts
• markdown
• upmark
• ruby
• rubygems
• instructions
• new-site

Another thing we added to our new site, uploaded back at the end of December, was the ability to write our blog posts in Markdown, which is a text-to-html tool that allows you to write formatted text without actually having to write all the corresponding HTML. Markdown is used for the project wiki pages on GitHub, and can also be used for the project's readme file.

• ruby
• rubygems
• ruby-on-rails
• rails
• blog
• posts
• postmarkdown
• markdown
• instructions
• opinions
• new-site

This week, I've been deploying one of my current Ruby on Rails projects to WebFaction.
For what we found, it's definitely one of the best options out there for shared hosting with Python and Ruby.

• ruby
• rails
• rails3-1
• flash
• swf
• assets
• instructions
• swf_fu

Version 0.3.1 of the jQuery Rambling Slider has been released!
You can download it from GitHub and test it out.

• jquery
• plugin
• plugins-and-libraries
• releases
• rambling-slider
• rambling
• slider
• image
• content
• nivo-slider

As you may know, we've been using HAML lately for our views.

• ruby
• rails
• rails3-1
• instructions
• generators
• erb
• haml

As I said when announcing the Rambling Labs new site, we've been learning a lot of stuff while building it.

• new-site
• error-handling
• bugs
• instructions
• error-404
• error-500
• rails
• ruby
• rails3-1

Another cool thing that we learned while building the new Rambling Labs site was HAML.
It's a markup language that is based on the premise that 'Markup should be beautiful', in their own words.

• html
• haml
• rails
• rails3-1
• views
• view-engine
• new-site
• new-look

One of the cool things I learned while building our new site was how to generate your site navigation menu without having to do the highlighting logic yourself.

• ruby
• rubygems
• gem
• rails
• rails3-1
• navigation
• simple-navigation
• new-site
• new-look

As you may have noticed, our logo, our favicon, and our site and blog have a new look.
We have added a pretty Home page, a cool Contact page and an informative About us page.
Also, the blog has moved from it's original location at the root of the ramblinglabs.com domain to ramblinglabs.com/blog. Every old blog post link and blog tag link has been taken care of and redirects to the new location.

• release
• new-site
• new-look
• ramblinglabs
• rambling