Category Archives: Ruby

Useful code snippets in Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

The Rubyist: July 2009 Edition

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of July 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog. Ruby The Great Ruby IDE Smackdown of ’09 Three Years of Real-World Ruby Python vs Ruby Python’s Beards and Ruby’s “Cool” Guys The Ruby Programming Language An [...]

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The Rubyist: May 2009 Edition

Ruby – I was really excited to play with _Why’s latest project, Bloopsaphone. Bloopsaphone allows you to program 8-bit sounds… Early 8-bit Sounds from _why’s Bloopsaphone What It’s Like Being A Ruby Rock Star The Ruby Toolbox Fixing Threads in Ruby 1.8: A 2-10x performance boost Engine Yard Has Taken Over Ruby 1.8.6 Maintenance Ruby [...]

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Being a Better Rails Developer

If you search for ways to become a better developer you will find nearly 70 million results. After reading as many of those results as possible and still learn something, I boiled down all the advice to the following general axioms. Read Everything Learn Fast, Learn Everything Practice What You Know Try New Things Strive [...]

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RailsConf 2009 Presentations

If you missed RailsConf 2009 earlier in the month, Blip.TV has a few of the RailsConf presentations online so that you can catch up. Here are some of the highlights from RailsConf 2009. David Heinemeier Hansson – Rails 3 …and the real secret to high productivity. Robert Martin – What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, [...]

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The Rubyist: April 2009 Edition

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of April 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog. Ruby – Earlier in the month the hot topic in the Ruby community involved Twitter and their use of Scala for some back-end processes. Just suggesting that [...]

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Google App Engine for Java

Google App Engine was originally released, in Google beta, a year ago. Google App Engine originally had programming support for the Python programming language, but today, on the one year anniversary of its beta release Google has added Java support. Building Java support into Google App Engine means that they have built it for JRuby, [...]

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