Thank you, Rails
It’s fashionable, or perhaps inevitable, for tech communities to trash their competition. The Emacs folks like to mock vi users; Windows folk look... more »
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CSS Mixins vs. multiple classes
A growing number of CSS meta-frameworks provide support for mixins. While CSS mixins provide a number of benefits, for me, they come with trade-offs.
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5
Oracle's defiance on the issue of MySQL could lead to a formal statement of objections by the EU. In other news, the W3C is meeting this week to... more »
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Building Our First Rails Application
Moving forward with our series, we'll build a basic Rails application that illustrates how easy Rails is to use and why the Rails user base continues... more »
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Git – Working on a User Story
We recently started using Git as our version control system at Rally. Switching to Git has been a learning experience for many of us. I would like to... more »
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A better acts_as_tree for Rails
A plugin that extends the class acts_as_tree with single query tree traversing.
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Programming Contest, Win a Motorola DROID and $1k in Cloud Credit!
The goal of this contest is to collaborate with your other contestants to build the “worst app server technology ever” (WASTE), and use it to complete... more »
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IronRuby 0.9.2
We have released IronRuby 0.9.2, the latest release on the way to the 1.0!! The thing I’m most excited of in this release is the presence of a MSI... more »
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Learn Ruby (Video Tutorial)
If you've wanted to learn Ruby, here's a video series to help you learn!
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Alex Miller - Inside the Strange Loop
Alex Miller summarizes his experience of organizing and putting on the one-of-a-kind Strange Loop 2009 developer conference.
Ruby and Rails Ecosystem White Paper
The Ruby and Rails Ecosystem is a very large and robust community of companies, entities and individuals. This paper is meant to be an educational... more »
Using Ruby on Rails for a Client Project
Depending on what your client needs, Ruby on Rails may or may not be a good technology choice.
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Running JRuby with Terracotta
At a certain point in time we decided to drive some java code with JRuby, in order to process information like log files more efficiently. The java... more »
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Slides: Hands on with Ruby and MongoDB
Slides from my MongoDB talk at the October meeting of Austin on Rails.
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Building & Deploying tiny Web-applications in Ruby using Sinatra
Entry level: Learn to build and deploy tiny web-applications using the Sinatra micro web framework.
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Issues faced by Ruby Beginners
Chris Strom recently had the privilege to supply the challenge for the second Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies. The challenge provoked 40+... more »
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Cross-platform development with JRuby and Swing
In addition to building Web and console applications with Ruby, you can write complex GUI desktop applications that run unmodified on multiple... more »
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Nginx & Comet: Low Latency Server Push
Nginx can be converted into a fully capable long-polling Comet server with a single plugin. Best of all, it is fully asynchronous, supports message... more »
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Using Eclipse to build Silverlight applications in Java, PHP and Ruby
As hard as it might be to believe, not everybody is using Visual Studio as their development platform. Then what if they want to develop a Silverlight... more »
IronRuby and IronPython for .NET 4.0 Beta 2
I’m pleased to announce the release of the IronRuby and IronPython CTPs for .NET 4.0 Beta 2. This is the third preview of IronRuby and IronPython... more »
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Solving Project Euler Problem #5 in Ruby
2520 is the smallest number that can be divided by each of the numbers from 1 to 10 without any remainder. What is the smallest number that is evenly... more »
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5 reasons to use a static site generator instead of Wordpress
When we sat down to build the Guestlist website, we thought we’d try using Jekyll, a “blog aware” static site generator written in Ruby. The basic... more »
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Continuous Integration and CruiseControl.rb
This is one way we keep track of our code quality. We keep track of our tests' status with continuous integration.
Learning ruby metaprogramming
Let's start learning Ruby Metaprogramming!
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