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SimplyStored and CouchDB

11 days ago by Jonathan on BlogFish - Blog.
Yesterday I gave a presentation about CouchDB and SimplyStored, our convenience Ruby library, at the Ruby User Group Berlin. There is a recording of...

Of Procs, Blocks, and Dancing Angels

11 days ago by on Talk Like A Duck.
Angel Dance © Ina Centaur Recently, Yehuda Katz wrote an article in reaction to a Pythonista's criticism of Ruby and in particular...

Rails test data not getting rolled back

12 days ago by tomcopeland on Junior developer.
Here begins a MySQL new bee tale of woe. I was working on a Rails app, writing tests, all was well. Then a co-worker told me the tests were failing for...

Three ways to increase New Relic RPM’s usefulness

13 days ago by katipo authors on Katipo Developers Blog.
Three recent and little known features of New Relic RPM which help increase usefulness....

Destructuring extravaganza

13 days ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
A few months back I added support for destructuring assignment and tuples to Ioke. Since Ioke’s assignment is just a regular method call, this was actually...

John Gruber agrees with me about "look and feel" protection

13 days ago by Josh Goebel on Pastie << self.
I have a warm fuzzy feeling inside. In comments recently regarding Apple's lawsuit against HTC John Gruber closes with: I can’t speak to the hardware...

In-depth JRuby Q&A: What Makes JRuby Tick in 2010?

13 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
JRuby is undoubtedly the most mature of the alternative Ruby implementations. Supporting Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1 (mostly!) and JIT compilation, JRuby is already...

Fake Multiple Table Inheritance

13 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
For many years now a pattern has emerged in my Rails websites. Most models will have Title, Description, Online at, Offline at, Is visible, Url and Image_file_name...

Rails 3 Generators: Scaffolding

13 days ago by Ben Scofield, Technology Director on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
Scaffolding in Rails has always been a little controversial. Originally, it was responsible for a lot of Rails’s wow factor – DHH’s blog in fifteen...

Ruby Tuesdays: RBP Chapter 6

14 days ago by Gregory Brown on Ruby Best Practices.
If you’re reading this blog, you probably know that the Ruby Best Practices book exists. Even if you haven’t read it, you might have a sense for the...