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Fun with Ferret

over 5 years ago by kent on Data Noise.
I've been using Lucene for many years on many different projects. Thanks to Dave Balmain, this library is ported to Ruby and it seems to be even faster...

WS-*

over 5 years ago by kent on Data Noise.
I've been dealing with SOAP/WSDL a lot lately, and this is beside trying to play a role of ActionWebService maintainer. There are several points to mention...

TextMate and Quick Searches

~5 years ago by kent on Data Noise.
I've been using TextMate since probably the first public version. At least my license dialog shows October 6th 2004, Serial Number #60. And, oh boy, I've...

Entering fixtures with TextMate

~5 years ago by kent on Data Noise.
Probably the most boring task when writing test cases is entering new fixtures. With a little help from TextMate this process can be made more pleasantOpen...

ruby-debug version 0.8 has been released!

~5 years ago by kent on Data Noise.
This is mostly a maintenance release. The major change is that ruby-debug has been split in two parts: ruby-debug-base gem contains the debugger core...

ruby-debug 0.6.1 Released

over 5 years ago by kent on Data Noise.
ruby-debug 0.6.1 has been released! $ sudo gem install ruby-debug ruby-debug is a C extension that implements the fast Ruby debugger. Changes Significant...

Profiling with Shark

over 5 years ago by kent on Data Noise.
Lately I ran into an article talking about a new Ruby debugger called Cylon. Developers of Sapphiresteel IDE have achieved remarkable results. The article...

Ruby interface to libtransmission

over 5 years ago by kent on Data Noise.
One of my projects required a bittorrent integration. I've tried two available in Ruby options: rubytorrent is a pure Ruby bittorrent client. libtorrent-ruby...

Live Ruby process inspection

over 5 years ago by kent on Data Noise.
OK, this is totally insane. First Jamis Buck hit us with Inspecting a live Ruby process article where he demonstrated a number of very interesting technics...

Breakpoint extension breakage

over 5 years ago by kent on Data Noise.
Many Rails users enjoyed this little gem developed by Florian Groß. But as Mauricio Fernandez noted in his blog, this extension is broken with the brand...