Blog Profile / Ruby Inside
| URL : | http://www.rubyinside.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Programming / Web Development | |
| Posts on Regator: | 528 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2 | |
| Archived Since: | June 30, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
How to Build a “Spy Camera” App for an Android Phone with Ruby and Sinatra
It's been a great year for Ruby on Android, but no one knows it. You can start writing Ruby apps for Android devices TODAY. You don't need to install any SDK, you don't need to install some giant Eclipse IDE, and you certainly don't need to write any Java. Mike Leone
Rails 3.0 Released (And 22 Free Videos To Bring You Up To Speed)
Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare it’s finally here. We’ve brought the work of more than 1,600 contributors together to make everything better, faster, cleaner, and more beautiful. David Heinemeier Hansson
EuRuKo 2010: Summaries, Videos, and Photos from Europe’s Ruby Conference
EuRuKo is the brand of Europe's principal Ruby conference series and EuRuKo 2010 took place in late May. Why, then, am I posting about it in August? First, I'm a strong supporter of EuRuKo and promised to post a roundup of the event here. Show More Summary
home_run: Ruby’s Date and DateTime Classes, But 20-200x Faster
home_run is an implementation of ruby’s Date/DateTime classes in C, with much better performance (20-200x) than the version in the standard library, while being almost completely compatible. Jeremy Evans
Ruby 1.9.2 Released
Yuki (Yugui) Sonoda has just announced the release of the stable version of Ruby 1.9.2!
Building “skinny daemons” in Ruby
[W]e’ve been having a lot of fun writing a series of small, self-contained web apps.. When we’re building these kinds of applications, which are often meant as low-ceremony apps targeted at a very specific purpose, or as service utilities, a lot of the time we don’t want to go through the hassle associated with a “normal” web app. Dave Hrycyszyn
Mongomatic: A New Ruby MongoDB Library Hits The Scene
Back in June, I did a comparison of Mongoid and MongoMapper, the two best known MongoDB libraries for Ruby. Now, Ben Myles has brought another to the fore: Mongomatic.
Making A Code Coverage Tool for Ruby 1.9
Aaron Patterson (of Nokogiri fame) has written a post for the AT&T Interactive blog about writing a code coverage tool with Ruby 1.9:
Does Ruby Suffer From An Overabundance Of Choice?
In "So You Want To Be a Ruby Dev" Kevin W Gisi presents a tongue in cheek narrative of a new Ruby developer being guided through the choices they have to make. (It's being discussed on Hacker News too - some good comments there.)
Microsoft Tires of IronRuby; Jimmy Schementi Jumps Ship
In April, we wrote about IronRuby hitting 1.0 and Microsoft's "3 years with Ruby [paying] off." It's sad, then, to read today that program manager Jimmy Schementi is leaving Microsoft citing a rapidly decreasing interest in dynamic languages (other than JavaScript) at the software giant.
Lyle Johnson Retires from the FXRuby GUI Toolkit
Yesterday, Lyle Johnson of the FXRuby GUI toolkit project stood aside as the project's maintainer, effectively retiring the project:
“and” vs && and “or” vs || in Ruby
If you use Ruby long enough, you will discover the and and or operators. These appear at first glance to be synonyms for && and ||. You will then be tempted to use these English oprators in place of && and ||, for the sake of improved readability. Show More Summary
Michael Hartl’s Rails 3 Tutorial Book
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (a.k.a. railstutorial.org) by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build Rails apps. Michael has put together a great Rails 2.3 tutorial, releasing it all for free online chapter by chapter. Now, Michael's going three steps further:
Mailman – Like Sinatra for E-mail
Mailman is an incoming email processing microframework. You point it at a source of email, such as a POP3 account or a Maildir, and it will execute routes based on the messages that come in.