The Ruby community embraces open source like no other community. These days, any Ruby developer worth their salt is expected to have authored or contributed to an open source library. Git and Github have made sharing code easy and contributing simple. However,…
Continue Reading…Here at Rubysource we like to have somewhat timely articles, so there is no way we’re going to let the New Year come and go without an article on Ruby Resolutions (or, if you will (I won’t) Rubylutions) I realize it’s a…
Continue Reading…The rise of sophisticated web applications, such as GMail, has given birth to an army of javascript frameworks. These frameworks allow you to, basically, create a client-side application within your web application. Terms such as “MVC” and other design patterns, once saved…
Continue Reading…Ahhhh, the Dog Days of a Ruby Summer are upon us. This time of year it is so hot that I only venture out to obtain boxes off my porch containing new nerd books, nerd accessories, or delivery nerd food. I don’t…
Continue Reading…Another Happenings post??!?? Already?? Yes, it’s true. I wanted to mark the occasion of my going on vacation next week (to MONTANA! I am going to fish and wrestle bears and wear cowboy hats and deploy it all with capistrano…YEEEEHAAAAH) Ahem….sorry. I…
Continue Reading…It’s been awhile since we’ve had a Happenings post. There’s always a ton going on in Ruby, so we need to put some of these links out before they overwhelm us in a link avalanche. RubyMotion One of the biggest recent news…
Continue Reading…Recently, I had the need to investigate better methods of uploading pictures to our web application. The app is Rails-based and hosted on Heroku. Heroku, as I am sure many of you know, constrains its hosted applications with a read-only file system.…
Continue Reading…Hullo, and welcome to yet another Happenings in Ruby, the series that takes a look around the community and says “Hi, um, what’s going on?” Let’s get to it. A Black-Tie Affair Do you use Sinatra? Are you jealous of Rails programmers…
Continue Reading…In my last edition of Happenings in Ruby, a commenter pointed out that every one of my links was something about Rails. I didn’t realize it, of course, until it was shown to me. I am as guilty as anyone of propagating…
Continue Reading…The Loccasions application now allows most of the basic functionality that I wanted to produce. Now it’s time to examine what went right, what went wrong, and what the next iteration is.
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