An introduction to Ruby 1.9 Fibers
An introduction to Ruby1.9 Fibers, how they work and how values can be passed from/to them
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101 Reasons Why PostgreSQL is a better fit for Rails than MySQL
Explaining why PostgreSQL is a better fit for Rails than MySQL
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JDBC Connection Pooling for Rails on Glassfish
In Light Engineering (LED), we’re known to be multilingual – depending on the project, we’ve been known to speak Perl, Python, Java, C++, Javascript... more »
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GemPlugins: A Brief Introduction to the Future of Rails Plugins
The new Gem Dependencies of Rails 2.1 give developers an easier-than-ever ability to keep track of and maintain the various library dependencies... more »
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The Ruby Programming Language - Part1
tries to highlight imp points from the book.
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Obie Fernandez "Do The Hustle" - how programmers can sell, negotiate, and deal with clients without headaches
Obie Fernandez shares his experience successfully selling consulting services for both Thoughtworks and Hashrocket to help you with the following... more »
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Comparing and Manipulating Strings in Ruby
In this second part of a three-part series focusing on strings in Ruby, you will learn how to test two strings to see if they are the same, and more.... more »
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Passenger Brings Rails Apps to Apache
For many years, Apache has been the de facto standard for Web site and application deployment. The open-source Web server, which was originally... more »
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Ruby on Rails 2.2 to be Thread Safe
The actual thread safety won’t really matter much to most people, but it’ll surely look nice on your enterprisey check list of Features Your Framework... more »
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Shoes Tutorial
An introduction to Shoes. Code and graphical pairs. Here is an example of a quick shoes app: Shoes.app { button "PUSH!" }
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Josh Peek officially joins the Rails core
Josh has been working on a Google Summer of Code project to bring thread safety to Rails and is just about ready to wrap it up. Rails 2.2 will be... more »
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Erlang Introduction (For the Ruby Guy) part 3
In Erlang your world revolves around processes. Not to be confused with OS processes. Here we are talking about highly light weight threads that can... more »
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Q/A: What Thread-safe Rails Means
There's been a little bit of buzz about David Heinemeier Hansson's announcement that Josh Peek has joined Rails core and is about to wrap up his GSoC... more »
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Telling a good story - Rspec stories from the trenches
A collection of lessons and guidelines for writing Rspec Stories. With story examples taken from real systems and how they have been improved as I... more »
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Getting Started With NetBeans Ruby 6.5
Now that I have most of the online help done for NetBeans Ruby 6.5, I can start updating the tutorials. I have already started getting comments... more »
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Easy Ruby development, the Eclipse way
Explore the additional functions and improvements that Aptana RadRails brings to the Ruby developer. Using Eclipse's ubiquitous and common platform... more »
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Where is the Net::SSH bug
Yesterday I spent several hours trying to find the problem with our implementation of OpenSSL Cipher, that caused the Net::SSH gem to fail miserable... more »
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The single assignment cargo cult
Erlang programmers are awfully vocal about the idea of single assignment: unlike virtually every other language on the planet where you are free to... more »
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Ruby: Underuse of Modules
I've been using modules instead of accessing the metaclass directly. "Just in case someone wants to redefine behavior" isn't really a good enough... more »
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Ruby on Erlang
The thought that entered my head and has not left is this: if Ruby can run on top of the Java Virtual Machine and take advantage of all the power of... more »
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JRuby now supports JSR-45 (Debugging Support for Other Languages)
Today while speaking with Charles Nutter today, he mentioned that JRuby now supports JSR-45.
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Javascript makes me see Red
Just to prove that Canadians don’t have a monopoly on coolness, check out Jesse Sielaff’s Red library. Red is like sass for javascript files. Rather... more »
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Ruby
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ruby. It's recommended that you upgrade to the latest versions.
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Concurrent Ruby?
Erlang does a couple of things differently. The most obvious one, which makes it so scalable, is the message-passing -- Erlang uses "processes"... more »
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