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Securing Memcache in 2 Minutes

27 days ago by David Bock on On the Path.
A couple of weeks ago I was setting up a few servers for a new client. Part of that setup was an instance of memcache, and I took a few minutes to show...

Microsoft Tires of IronRuby; Jimmy Schementi Jumps Ship

27 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
In April, we wrote about IronRuby hitting 1.0 and Microsoft's "3 years with Ruby [paying] off." It's sad, then, to read today that program manager Jimmy...

Lyle Johnson Retires from the FXRuby GUI Toolkit

28 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Yesterday, Lyle Johnson of the FXRuby GUI toolkit project stood aside as the project's maintainer, effectively retiring the project:...

Rails 3 Internals: Railtie & Creating Plugins

~1 month ago by Ilya Grigorik on igvita.com.
With the official Rails 3 release on the horizon, all of the edge features we have been hearing about for over a year are about to become the new standard...

Moving On

~1 month ago by Lyle on Lovable Lyle.
When Jamis Buck wrote last year about ceasing development on Capistrano, his post really struck a chord with me. If this post reminds you of that one, it...

Clojure for Beginners Course – 2nd Batch Announced

~1 month ago by Satish Talim on RubyLearning Blog.
Introducing an intensive, online course for beginners that helps you get started with Clojure programming. What’s Clojure? According to Wikipedia: �...

Delayed Job dying silently

~1 month ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’ve just completed migrating a client site from BackgrounDRb to delayed_job (which is a huge relief on several levels). I had hoped to complete the process...

Ruby and Rails 2010

~1 month ago by Manfred Stienstra on Fingertips.
If you were looking for a good reason to visit Amsterdam, now is your chance. On the 21st and 22nd of October the Ruby and Rails conference is taking place...

In only a few hours, I was able to write a small, easily customizable proxy server that caches...

~1 month ago by on xml-blog.
In only a few hours, I was able to write a small, easily customizable proxy server that caches responses to help me develop while disconnected from our...

“and” vs && and “or” vs || in Ruby

~1 month ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
If you use Ruby long enough, you will discover the and and or operators. These appear at first glance to be synonyms for && and ||. You will then be tempted...