Category Archives: Ruby

Useful code snippets in Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

The Rubyist: March 2009 Edition

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of March 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog. Ruby 2009 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment Ruby script to generate weekly Twitter links Advancing the Ruby 1.9 Adoption Memory footprint of objects [...]

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The Rubyist: February 2009 Edition

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of February 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog. Ruby An interview with _why the lucky stiff Ruby VMs: A Comparison The State of Ruby 1.9 Support in IDEs tinyrb – a tiny ruby vm Ruby [...]

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The Rubyist: January Edition

Here is a recap of the top Ruby-related links for the month of January 2009. Links for The Rubyist are provided by A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure, a tumblelog. Ruby Ruby Gem for Twitter API ActiveRecord Without Rails .NET Coder should give Ruby a try! Automating Data Visualization with Ruby and Graphviz HAML Brings Seaside Awesome [...]

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The Rails Mythbuster

Everybody has an opinion on the most opinionated web application framework, Ruby on Rails. Some developers have spread a campaign of misinformation and FUD but this has not stopped the momentum or monumental growth in Rails adoption. But after five years of active development and pissing off committee full of astronaut architects DHH busts some [...]

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ActiveRecord: Ruby on Rails Optional

Ruby on Rail is made up of a variety of code modules packaged as Ruby Gems. For example, Rails is composed of gems such as ActionController, ActionView, ActionRecord, and few other gems. It might sound surprising at first, but you can use ActiveRecord without the other Rails components. ActiveRecord is an Object Relational Mapper (ORM), [...]

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Twitter Ruby Gem

I been playing around with writing my own Twitter bot and client to backup my tweet feed and other natural language processing experiments. The good thing is that there are a ton of Twitter libraries in a wide variety of programming languages. At first I picked up a Java library, Twitter4J, but then quickly opted [...]

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