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Book Review: DSLs in Boo

19 days ago by Andrew Glover on The Disco Blog.
While I don’t spend a lot of time on the .NET platform anymore, I’m still a big fan of Boo. Having cut my teeth on Python many years ago, I’ve always...

MegaMythen: play with the Greek Gods

20 days ago by joost on Space Babies.
Late last year I have built the back-end for a very slick online game called MegaMythen. In this game you can play with the ancient Greek Gods and travel...

Great Lakes Ruby Bash

20 days ago by John Nunemaker on RailsTips.org - Home.
In which I mention a conference you should definitely go to....

Rails 3 Generators: The Old Faithful

21 days ago by Ben Scofield, Technology Director on Viget Extend : The Development Lab.
I figured it would be best to start the tour of Rails 3 generators with those that are most commonly used. Assuming I'm representative of most Rails developers...

Harmony: JavaScript And A DOM Environment In Ruby

21 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Harmony, from Martin Aumont, is a new Ruby DSL for executing JavaScript and DOM-using code from within Ruby apps. Why's that cool? Well, it enables you...

Data Serialization RPC with Avro & Ruby

22 days ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
Any programmer or project worth their salt needs to invent their own serialization, and if they are serious, an RPC framework - or, at least, that is what...

Improved validations in Rails 3

22 days ago by on omgbloglol.
Quite sorry about not getting another post up sooner; I’ve been very busy lately with a few different things (some of which shall be revealed very soon...

Ruby Tuesdays: RBP Chapter 4

22 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...

Moving to a safer password solution

23 days ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
In an application we wrote back in 2004 I found MD5 hashed passwords. We decided this was too weak for modern standards so we wanted to switch to bcrypt...

Episode 201: Bundler

23 days ago by Ryan Bates on Railscasts.
Bundler is the way to manage gem dependencies in Rails 3.0. Learn how to install gems and lock them down in this episode....