Category: Ruby

I have over 15 years of proven experience at creating shipping products from scratch and managing teams of software developers. I’ve been developing web applications since the early days of Perl/CGI scripts in 1994, and I have kept my skills current the whole time. You can read all about it on LinkedIn. Until recently I was the CTO at Venue Driver, until the company was acquired by the Hakkasan Group. Now I'm the Executive Director of Technology there, and I'm responsible for a lot more systems and people.

Lately I use a lot of Ruby on Rails and Behavior Driven Design. And I'm really into DevOps. I love to use Rails, Sinatra, Cucumber, Rspec, Jasmine BDD, Capybara, CoffeeScript, Amazon EC2, Chef, MongoDB, Redis, Git, Objective C, iOS, and lots of other fun buzzwords. The latest mountain that I'm climbing is creating an enterprise data warehouse using a lot of Ruby, a little bit of Rails, and the Pentaho data integration and analysis tools.

Ryan Alyn Porter

Web and mobile software developer

Category: Ruby

2012

Introducing the link-checker Ruby gem

Quickly and painlessly check your web links with Ruby, Nokogiri and Anemone

Simple Redis caching in Ruby

A utility method for caching the result of any block of Ruby code.

Resizing thumbnails on demand with Paperclip and Rails

How to generate Paperclip attachment thumbnails on demand instead of in advance.

2010

Rapid Web Site Creation And Deployment With Appleseed

Create a Rails project, push it to GitHub, and deploy it to Heroku -- all with one command.

2009

Authorizing Users Between Web Sites with Open Sesame

Use a cryptographic hash to pass authenticated traffic between two web sites.

Generating Rails ERB Templates From Dreamweaver With Ginsu

Bring graphic designers into your agile process by generating Rails templates automatially.