More then half a year has passed since Wiselinks-0.1 has been released. A lot of work has been done since that. From one hundred lines of code CoffeeScript plugin Wiselinks became a Swiss Army knife for browser state management.

For those, who don’t know anything about Wiselinks: it makes following links and submitting forms in your web application faster. You may find it similar to Turbolinks or Pjax, but Wiselinks works as a whitelist rather than blacklist.

Facts:

• about 360 stargazers on GitHub;
• more then 30 issues (features and bugs) closed (not much, but don’t forget that Wiselinks is a about 350 lines of code);
• Wiselinks is known in Los Angeles, and in Geneva, and in Asturias and of course in Russia and other countries of CIS;
• some people think that Wiselinks is really cool and others too;
• Wiselinks is used in a rather big projects: LienLog and LienMarket;
• History.js added link to Wiselinks to its documentation;
• Turbolinks didn’t do the same without any real reason.

Wiselinks-1.0.0 is out, what was done for this release?

We fixed all problems with URL encoding in all browsers (even in IE, which is not a browser, but the pain for us).

History.js was updated to 1.8, and with release we got ability to drop rather ugly _suid parameter in HTML4 browsers. So instead of this in IE:

http://192.168.0.2:3000/#./catalog?&_suid=1373486813312051452925907933

you will get:

http://192.168.0.2:3000/#./catalog

Looks good yes? Wiselinks has grown to stable and wide spread solution, it has maintainers, community and goals for future.

Thank you!

Last week was full of new releases. On monday Attrio reached 0.2 version and this release was already mentioned on RubyFlow. And on holidays Wiselinks was updated to 0.6 and I want to show you a short list of changes, fixes and upgrades.

Do you remember my previous post about Yandex::Webmaster gem? In the end of the post there was an example of typed attributes in plain Ruby class. I said that we plan to extract this functionality from Yandex::Webmaster into a separate gem and we’ve done it today!

I’ve just released Yandex::Webmaster-0.2.0 gem. Yandex::Webmaster is an object orientated wrapper for Yandex Webmaster API. Here are some links for you to find out more about Webmaster and its API:

• Webmaster home page http://webmaster.yandex.com
• API Reference http://api.yandex.com/webmaster/

What to know more about gem and also get some bonus?

For different reasons (mainly NDA) I cannot write real project names in this post. To make all things clear, let’s say that we have one project called FooLog (Rails 3.2) and we have to create new project called FooMarket (Rails 3.2 too) that uses data and ROI algorithms from FooLog.

As it usually happens at the beginning of the development, FooMarket seemed to us a very simple project with a pair of controllers and five or eight models. We wanted to add simple API to FooLog and authorise FooMarket to load data from FooLog through this API (with OAuth for example). After a couple of conference Skype-calls with our customers we understood that we are doing something bigger then two controllers and five models and I said – “OMG! We are trying to create another FooLog here! Why we cannot just add another section to FooLog and call it FooMarket?”. The answer was: “Because of marketing. FooLog and FooMarket are two different investment projects and should work separately”.

One week ago ruby-2.0.0-rc2 has been released, so I decided that the time has come to benchmark it again. This release will be compared to ruby-2.0.0-preview1 that I used in my first shooutout and to ruby-1.9.3-p385 that also was tagged not so long ago.

For some reason geocoder gem don’t have support of ipgeobase.ru out of the box.

You may don’t know this, but ipgeobase.ru is leading ip-geocoding service in Russia and Ukraine. Its accuracy of coordinates detection for Russian ip-addresses is much higher then in the freegeoip.net. For example, I live in Tver and my home ip-address is 213.5.102.43; freegeoip tells me that I am in Moscow, ipgeobase tells me that I am in Tver, about 150 kilometres difference!

That’s why I decided to add support of ipgeobase to geocoder.

Part 1: Introduction and Filters

How ofter do you use Presenter Patter in your Rails applications? I do it when I have really complex views and want to move all logic from template file to some Ruby class. Usually this can be done when you have listing of items with paginations, per page selector sorting and filter for these items. In this post I want to show you my approach for such situations.

We in JetRockets widely use Factory Girl as a fixture replacement for our tests. A couple of days ago I replaced Test::Unit with RSpec for our wiselinks gem. I wanted to emulate situation when controller is processing wiselinks and non-wiselinks requests. To do this I had to create instance of ActionDispatch::Request inside of my specs and Factory Girl helped me a lot with this.

Today I discovered Celluloid. To be short, with Celluloid multithreading in Ruby is getting easy and understandable, it helps you to combine concurrency with object oriented programming.