Another Opinion on Rails
I’ve been coding in Ruby for a long time, and I love the language. It has all the object-oriented power of Smalltalk, the functional power of Lisp,... more »
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19
Big announcements at the Devoxx and PDC conferences. At Devoxx Mark Reinhold said that Java 7 would be getting closures. At the Microsoft PDC... more »
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Jack Cough : Scala Over Ruby - His Debate Ends - Mine Meanders Conclusion-ward
Jack Cough on Software: Scala over Ruby - My Debate Ends: This article struck a chord with me today. I spent most of today flipping back and... more »
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11 Things to Consider Before Deploying Your Rails Application
We prefer to follow a checklist while deploying any rails application to production server. This list is certainly not exhaustive and we are looking... more »
Metaprogramming in Ruby: It’s All About the Self
After writing my last post on Rails plugin idioms, I realized that Ruby metaprogramming, at its core, is actually quite simple. It comes down to... more »
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What makes a good API wrapper?
A look into approaches and considerations when designing a wrapper for a RESTful API. Ruby examples provided, but concepts apply to programming in... more »
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A 'When Rails Fails' Follow-up
Response to "massive" feedback on the post When Rails Fails.
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When Rails Fails
For the past years there has been a lot of hype around Ruby on Rails. It’s a modern web framework built on the dynamically typed Ruby language. It... more »
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Refactoring: Introduce Local Extension in Ruby
I was recently reading Martin Fowler's Refactoring. While I was reading Introduce Local Extension (p. 164) all I could think of was how simple it is... more »
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Ruby Mastery: The Most Important Chapter You Can Read on Ruby
There are a decent number of books out there on Ruby. In my mind I consider Chapter 11 of The Ruby Way, 2nd Edition the most important chapter you can... more »
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Rubyists: Meet Underscore.js, your new favorite Javascript library
I wish jQuery were as powerful when traversing raw JavaScript objects as it is traversing the DOM. Well it seems I have two wishes left for the first... more »
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JRuby Roundup: JRuby 1.4 Final Released, New Windows Native Launcher, HPricot 0.8.2
Info on the latest activities in JRuby-land.
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The Ruby revolution is over
According to wikipedia, a revolution (from the latin revolutio, “a turn around”) is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that... more »
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Sass up your WordPress themes with Compass
I’m a Rubyist. But I’m also a pragmatic front-end developer. Although I can reluctantly lay Ruby aside when I extend WordPress, I really miss my... more »
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Scala, Groovy, Jruby, Clojure - Comparision
Comparison of Scala, Groovy, JRuby and Clojure
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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
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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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