Ruby Best Practices - Full Book Now Available For Free!
The last few weeks have been a wild ride. Starting in January, I’ve been releasing a chapter at a time here on the RBP blog, and many of... more »
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Wireless Digital Picture Frame Dashboard Project
When Panic, a Mac software development firm with a strong flair for visual design, showed their scratch built digital dashboard I felt an... more »
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Better Ruby Through Functional Programming
Functional Programming is useful in many areas of development besides concurrency. In this follow up talk to the "Better Ruby Through... more »
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Scala in production at Twitter - interview with Twitter developers
About a year ago they started replacing some of the back-end Ruby services with applications running on the JVM and written in Scala. In... more »
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Embracing Collaboration with JRuby and JavaScript
As web developers, we live in an arranged marriage with JavaScript. What is a Rubyist to do? Use JavaScript as a compile target? Abstract... more »
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Making Ruby Fast: The Rubinius JIT
In order to execute Ruby code as fast as possible, Rubinius has the ability to compile Ruby code all the way down to machine code when it... more »
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Scripting a Multiplayer Game Server
This post briefly describes the script language support in Firebase. Now you can easily write multiplayer games in Ruby, Groovy, Python... more »
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What Standardization Will Mean For Ruby
The standardization of Ruby is making progress: after the announcement in 2008, a first draft of the standard has been published. What... more »
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How Ruby Taught Me To DRY Up My Code With Lambda Blocks
I’ve been working in Ruby for my Albacore project over the last 6 or 8 months, and taking every chance I can find to learn how to really... more »
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Is it just rails or contributing to any open source project leads to anger and frustration?
I am naught but a humble developer. Neither rails nor ruby occupies me professionally. All I wanted was rails with view inheritance (look... more »
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noSQL - Rails models with SOAP
A step by step guide to integrate SOAP into your Rails models by using Savon.
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Drawing the Mandelbrot set in Ruby and Haskell
Generating the wonderful Mandelbrot set in Ruby and Haskell - it's amazing how simple math can give birth to such a sophisticated shape.... more »
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JVM: JRuby's advantages over Clojure and Scala
Don't get me wrong, since using Clojure and Scala quite a lot over the last month, I very much like both languages. If I were to do a... more »
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50 of the Best Websites Developed Using Ruby on Rails
Whilst there are some well known success stories using Ruby on Rails out there, the sheer number and diversity of Rails apps is... more »
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Guest Post: What's IronRuby, and how do I put it on Rails?
IronRuby is Microsoft's implementation of the Ruby language we all know and love with the added bonus of interoperability with the .NET... more »
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Distributed Ruby: Mark Bates Sheds New Light
Sometimes Ruby code is too cool to run on just one computer at a time. In this interview with Hal Fulton, Mark Bates explains how he... more »
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MySQL and MongoDB working together in Kanbanery
An article explaining how MongoDB can be used side-by-side with MySQL, and how easy it is to use it with Ruby applications using MongoDB... more »
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Emerging Languages Face-off
Come join us and our panel of experts as we figure out the relative strengths and weaknesses of three emerging languages - Clojure,... more »
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Cucumber multi-session
Most of standard testing related tasks can be achieved in a simple way using the default steps from Cucumber. By assumption Cucumber is... more »
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Schema-Free MySQL vs NoSQL
There is no reason why we can't have a schema-free MySQL engine to compete with the NoSQL solutions. A look at what "schema-free" and... more »
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How to make rails migrations pretty
I have seen a lot of migrations, most of them was just doing what it had to do. But I found a nice way to make my migrations more... more »
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Dean Wampler on Programming Languages
with a discussion of functional programming, the use of Scala by programmers trained in Java and the differences between purely... more »
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7 of the Best Free Linux Configuration Management Tools
Configuration Management software enables administrators to automatically manage the entire configuration of one or multiple computers.
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How Ruby Manages Memory and Garbage Collection
Beautiful writeup of Ruby garbage collection
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Death by Duck-Typing - Ruby
Ruby is all about the duck-typing. Most of the time, I am too. But sometimes, it can lead to some very confusing and very nasty... more »
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