040 RR Text Editors and IDE's
This week the Ruby Rogues have an all out, knock-down drag-out battle royale over editors and IDEs.
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UK Government Implements Open Source Stack with MongoDB, Puppet, and More
A major government site in the UK has shifted to essentially a completely open source stack. Can this lead to more governments saving... more »
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Local Directory vs. Local Guide
Kin's work with CityGrid places led him to the conclusion that user-centered local direction provides search mechanisms for finding local... more »
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My five favorite “hidden” features in Rails 3.2
Rails 3.2 is out with great features on spotlight: faster development reloading, faster router and explain queries. However, every Rails... more »
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A Quick Introduction to Ruby on Rails
Time to Ruby dooby do! It can take a lot of time, and be quite boring, to learn a new programming language. A .Net developer will jump up... more »
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Grape API Mounted on RACK with Static Pages
This method is most useful for building a service with documentation. The author is using the next version of Grape (frontier branch and... more »
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The Monty Hall Problem and why you don't understand probability
A deceptively simple problem that has fooled even nobel prize physicists. It doesn't get any more counterintuitive than this. The only... more »
Vim for Rails developers: browse Ruby, RSpec and Rails docs quickly
In this post I just want to bring to your attention a little plugin I extracted from my vimfiles. We all need to read some API docs... more »
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JRuby 1.6.6 released
All the details of the last JRuby release from the 1.6x series
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Is Muhammed Ali Truly the Greatest? Neography's Answer
He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, but is Muhammad Ali truly the greatest? Greater than the Beatles? Greater than... more »
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Agorithm of the Week: Data Compression with Relative Encoding
Relative encoding is another data compression algorithm. While run-length encoding, bitmap encoding and diagram and pattern substitution... more »
Getting started with Ruby and Neo4j | Web Builder Zone
Getting started with Ruby and Neo4j is very easy. Follow these steps and you’ll be up and running in no time.
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Writing an API Wrapper in Ruby with TDD
Sooner or later, all developers are required to interact with an API. The most difficult part is always related to reliably testing the... more »
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Parsing Large XML Documents in Ruby
Today I was given a fairly large XML file (roughly 32 Mb) that I needed to parse in order to see if there was a match between a... more »
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Read This Before Installing Rails 3.2
This is a guide for developers using the starter apps from the Rails Apps repository. Others may find it helpful as well.
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Beginning Ember.js on Rails: Part 2
As promised in Part 1 of this series, this post will show how the example app uses our ultra-simple Ember REST library to query a... more »
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JRuby at Square: A Report
Xavier Shay, Platform Engineer at Square Inc, is going to give you a brief history of JRuby at Square. Xavier will talk about how the... more »
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Ruby On Rails 3.2 Hits New Track Times
The development team behind the Ruby on Rails open source web application development framework has released its 3.2 version with a key... more »
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Setting the Database Free with ActiveRecord’s Connection API
This article provides an introduction to the low-level ActiveRecord Connection API, which you can use to bypass ActiveRecord “models” and... more »
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24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development
One of the nicer things about developing on the Ruby platform is the sheer amount of meticulously categorized, highly reusable code... more »
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Serving Compressed Rails Assets from S3 via Cloudfront
We’d rather not serve static assets from Heroku because it requires checking them into source control. And we’d rather not add a web... more »
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FREE Online Course: Programming for the Web with Ruby
Satish Talim recommends this FREE online Ruby Course as an introduction to the programming language. He provides a registration key, as... more »
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Lisp in 32 lines of Ruby
And the LISP ecosystem has been enriched — much like manure to the garden.
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Couchbase Client for .NET, Java, Ruby, and C
Today I have a series of videos from Couchbase on how to get "up and running" with with Couchbase Client.
