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A Natural Language Date/Time Parser for Ruby: chronic

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Chronic is a natural language date/time parser written in pure Ruby. require 'chronic' Time.now #=> Sun Aug 27 23:18:25 PDT 2006 #--- ...

Leonard Richardson on Ruby Libraries

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Pat Eyler has a short interview with the author of Ruby Cookbook, Leonard Richardson, who touches on the ability of great Ruby libraries which change the...

Prototype Carousel Class for Ruby on Rails

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Sébastien Gruhier of Carquefou, France, a new Rails convert (after 13 years of C++/Java) has provided a handy Prototype/Scriptaculous Carousel component...

The New Ruby-Lang.org

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
A new design for ruby-lang.org is coming, and it’s very Web 2.0. Sweet. _why’s Blog ArticleNew SiteOld Site...

Rails No-Nos Now

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Kevin Clark of San Diego has posted an article describing several deprecated features of Rails–thing you should fix now or they’ll break later...

Ruby on Rails Plugin: CriteriaQuery

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
You’ll like this code: Person.query.name_like('name').join('address').city_like('city') … and CriteriaQuery brings it to you (via Max Muermann...

Beware of "Assumed Logged In" Attacks

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Brian Ellin of Portland, Oregon, warns us of “assumed logged in” attacks, which are cross-site attacks in which another site carefully crafts...

Modal Information Boxes: RedBoxPlugin for Ruby on Rails

over 5 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Craig Ambrose, an Aussie from Melbourne, has announced the RedBox Plugin for Ruby on Rails. He writes, I’ve written a little plugin to use for...

Ruby on Rails Forums in about 500 LOC: Beast

almost 6 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Josh Goebel and Rick Olsen are working on Beast, a “small, light-weight forum in Rails with a scary name and a goal of around 500 lines of code...

Bruce Tate on Rails Migrations

almost 6 years ago by Daniel Butler on Yup Dot Com.
Bruce Tate, a Java book author and Ruby on Rails advocate, discusses the advantages of Ruby on Rails database migration strategy, and concludes: The...