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Mongomatic: A New Ruby MongoDB Library Hits The Scene

25 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Back in June, I did a comparison of Mongoid and MongoMapper, the two best known MongoDB libraries for Ruby. Now, Ben Myles has brought another to the fore...

SunnyConf: Arizona’s First Ruby Conference (September 25, 2010)

25 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
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Making A Code Coverage Tool for Ruby 1.9

26 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Aaron Patterson (of Nokogiri fame) has written a post for the AT&T Interactive blog about writing a code coverage tool with Ruby 1.9:...

Does Ruby Suffer From An Overabundance Of Choice?

28 days ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
In "So You Want To Be a Ruby Dev" Kevin W Gisi presents a tongue in cheek narrative of a new Ruby developer being guided through the choices they have...

Microsoft Tires of IronRuby; Jimmy Schementi Jumps Ship

~1 month 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

~1 month 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:...

“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...

RubyConf 2010 Registration Just Opened – Be Quick

~1 month ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
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Michael Hartl’s Rails 3 Tutorial Book

~1 month ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example (a.k.a. railstutorial.org) by Michael Hartl has become a must read for developers learning how to build...

Mailman – Like Sinatra for E-mail

~1 month ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Mailman is an incoming email processing microframework. You point it at a source of email, such as a POP3 account or a Maildir, and it will execute routes...