What is Messaging As the Ruby community matures and our applications grow, we seek new ways to manage complexity, reduce coupling, and improve scalability. Though REST services are a good solution for a broad spectrum of problems, the temporal coupling is getting…
Continue Reading… My company has a web application in US format that we have modified for use by our UK affiliate. However our current need to amend it further and add some functions is leading us down the path of a total re-write. But…
Continue Reading… Exit, Stage Left. Every time you enter an irb session, boot a ruby script, or run a test runner you’re starting up a process. This goes for anything on your system, not just Ruby code. For instance, the same is true for…
Continue Reading… You have built an awesome application. You need to get it out there. Let’s face it, deployments should be easy, repeatable and if it doesn’t work out, you should be able to roll back to the last known good state. If you…
Continue Reading… Ruby and TDD are inseparable. The language lends itself to test driven development to the point that it ships with the Test::Unit library as standard. We all know that we ‘should’ test and that the process will yield more robust, better quality…
Continue Reading… In our first (of hopefully many) screencast, we look at Pik, which is a Ruby Version Manager for Windows. Show Notes Pik on Github RubyInstaller for Windows Google Group Post about version 0.3.0
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