What is Enterprise Software Enterprise software has been being bashed for years. “Why is that?” How come building software for large organizations has become synonymous with boredom? Some people say it’s boring because it is not rewarding. It’s hard to stay excited…
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…Redis is a key-value store that stands out from others, like memcached, in that it has built-in support for data structures like lists, sets, and hashes, and that it can persist data to disk. As such, it is quite useful as both…
Continue Reading…Sinatra: Up and Running was published at the end of last year by O’Reilly Press and is the first book to be written exclusively about Sinatra. It is written by Alan Harris and Konstantin Haase. Konstantin is the current maintainer of Sinatra…
Continue Reading…I’ve always considered Cucumber to be just another tool in my developer’s toolkit of testing tools. Like RSpec, Test::Unit or MiniTest::Spec I thought of Cucumber as just another way to test my code: I would use RSpec for my unit tests, and…
Continue Reading…Why Jekyll? As a Rubyist you’ll often see example code that starts like rails new blog and it is tempting. Many of us have gone down that rabbit hole because, as a programmer, it feels right to start from scratch and have…
Continue Reading…Deleting a Location. In the first part, we built an application that lists locations in English and Spanish. In the second part, we added the ability to create locations in English and Spanish. In the third part, we added the ability to…
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…JRuby has been in the news a lot recently: just a couple of weeks ago JRuby 1.6.7 was released, JRubyConf is coming up soon, and over the past several months there’s been a lot of buzz about the upcoming JRuby 1.7 release…
Continue Reading…Editing A Location. In the first part, we built an application that lists locations in English and Spanish. In the second part, we added the ability to create new locations in English and Spanish. In this part we will edit a location,…
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