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…For a long while it seemed that the Flash hegemony is unbeatable in the market of online games. Then Apple announced that their (then) new mobile device – the iPhone – won’t support Flash because of performance issues. This forced game developers…
Continue Reading…Jim Weirich is Chief Scientist at Neo I’ve been familiar with Jim Weirich’s name for a while; among other things he wrote the “rake” tool which most of us use on a daily basis. Then I was lucky enough to see Jim…
Continue Reading…Three great tastes that taste great together You have an Exchange Server and you need an employee roster. You might be thinking, “We’ll just create a database for that.” Let’s really think about that. If you do, then you have two databases…
Continue Reading…OK people, SitePoint needs your input. The SitePoint network, from RubySource to JSPro, would be a lonely place without its readers — and we’d like to hear what you have to say about us. We’ve published a SitePoint Network Reader Survey, and if you have…
Continue Reading…Rails always comes up with some and creative new features, and Rails 4 is no exception. One of the new features in Rails 4 is Strong Parameters. The basic idea behind Strong Parameters is to move mass-assignment protection out of the model…
Continue Reading…Ruby on Rails is often promoted as an MVC web framework (but in reality, Rails is a Model 2-MVC framework, I will get back to this discussion shortly, though) for the creation of modern, industrial-strength web applications. Ruby on Rails was first…
Continue Reading…We see it all the time. “RESTful” this, “REST” protocol that, etc. However, a lot of us don’t really understand exactly what it means. We’ll fix exactly that gap in this article! State In computer science (and mathematics, to some extent), there…
Continue Reading…Testing is a Given I have played with a lot of testing frameworks. We Rubyists are forever obsessing about our testing. Be it testing like Usain Bolt or the TSA, either way, we be testing. And that is a very good thing.…
Continue Reading…Xavier won the Ruby Hero award in 2010 Xavier Noria (pronounced “sha – vee – aay” in Catalan) is very well known in the Ruby community. A self-employed Ruby developer from Barcelona, he’s also a member of the Rails core team and…
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