If you’ve never had to do some hacking or monkey patching, then odds are you haven’t written or deployed a JRuby standalone or web application. Ok, that’s a bit dramatic but over the past year, while working with JRuby, I’ve had to…
Continue Reading…If you’ve ever written an application that had to be responsive while also performing some slow or long running tasks, then you’ve probably read about using background jobs. In the wonderful world of Ruby there are quite a few options for handling…
Continue Reading…If you’ve ever developed something using Ruby then you know it’s a blast to use. It flows well, reads well, and has lots of cool ways to get things done. Beyond the day-to-day APIs you might be used to, there lies a…
Continue Reading…Today makes our first post in a new ongoing series called Ruby Colored Glasses. This series aims to briefly study items outside the Ruby community that are interesting. These items may have influenced or been influenced by Ruby. Here at Rubysource, we…
Continue Reading…Have you ever wondered what it meant to “mixin” functionality into your classes? Have you seen include and extend used in Ruby code and wondered what was going on? If so, then you’ve come to the right place. Mixins can offer a…
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