http://rubyunderground.org Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:19:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en While the tagline of RubySpec is actually "The Standard You Trust" it might as well be "Monkeypatch with Confidence". Here's the backstory: Building TorqueBox, I ultimately wanted to be able to run a Ruby application from within a simple zip bundle of the app.  And handling everything that expects to be living ... http://rubyunderground.org/2009/12/rubyspec-monkeypatch-with-confidence/ To test TorqueBox, I'm always building little applications. My latest little application involved uploading a user avatar image, which my app, using Paperclip, would shuffle to Amazon S3. Form uploads are cool, but AJAXy Flash uploads are cooler.  So I grabbed SWFUpload from the conveniently-named sfwupload.org. Integrating it into my application was a ... http://rubyunderground.org/2009/11/swfupload-rails-rest-and-sessions/