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Chipmunk Gem, version 6.1.3.0.rc1

16 days ago by Shawn Anderson on Atomic Spin.
Chipmunk is a simple, lightweight, fast, and portable 2D rigid body physics library written in C.I’ve recently helped update the Ruby chipmunk gem...

Emacs Lisp: Toggle Between a Clojure String and Keyword

19 days ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
When I was doing a fair bit of Ruby I often used the TextMate's shortcut (Ctrl+:) to convert a Ruby String to a Symbol or a Ruby Symbol to a String. It...

Year Five

22 days ago by Jay Fields on Jay Fields Thoughts.
The average lifespan for a software engineering job is 4 years. Okay, I've never actually seen proof (or contradiction), but that's the general feeling...

Ruby at GitHub

22 days ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
Here is the video and slides for my recent talk “Ruby at GitHub”....

Introducing The Real Talk Podcast

23 days ago by James Golick on James on Software - Home.
[Joe Damato] and I have released the inaugural episode of our new, highly technical podcast realtalk.io. We will be doing frequent technical deep dives...

Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby

27 days ago by O'Reilly Media, Inc. on O'Reilly Ruby.
If you know basic high-school math, you can quickly learn and apply the core concepts of computer science with this concise, hands-on book. Led by a team...

Using Bundler with JRuby Complete

28 days ago by Patrick Bacon on Atomic Spin.
I am currently working on a project using JRuby for a server-side component. One of the team’s deployment goals has been to avoid relying on the production...

Using Bundler with JRuby Complete

28 days ago by Patrick Bacon on Atomic Spin.
I am currently working on a project using JRuby for a server-side component. One of the team’s deployment goals has been to avoid relying on the production...

Ruby Programming 42nd Batch: Registrations now open

28 days ago by Satish Talim on RubyLearning Blog.
Send to Kindle Registrations are now open for RubyLearning’s popular Ruby programming course. This is an intensive, online course for beginners that...

Episode 131: Profiling Ruby

28 days ago by pogodan on sd.rb podcast.
Greg Price was frustrated by how long it takes Ruby 1.9.3 apps to launch, so he decided to dive in and fix things. By using general techniques for profiling...