Creating service apps with Rails at tonight’s Ruby meetup
This is another brief reminder that I’ll be giving a preview of my RailsConf talk at tonight’s Ruby meetup. The meetup starts at 7 PM at Red Hat headquarters. Hope to see you there!
Category Archives: Ruby
Preview my RailsConf talk at this month’s Ruby meetup
For those who live in the RTP area, I’ll be giving a preview of my RailsConf talk at the Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade meetup on April 17th. We meet at Red Hat headquarters on NCSU’s Centennial Campus at 7:00 PM. I’ll be talking about Teascript, homesteading, and building niche web apps … Continue reading
RubyConf in the southeast
The Ruby community in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina has been growing by leaps and bounds lately, in large part due to the fantastic job Nathaniel Talbott has been doing with the local Ruby Brigade. Another sign of the growing interest in Ruby and Rails in the … Continue reading
Overriding existing Rake tasks
I added some long-running integration tests to a Rails application today and quickly began getting irritated that issuing the rake command runs all tests… unit, functional, AND integration. Since I run rake quite frequently, any sizable delay can quickly get annoying. The task that gets executed by rake is the … Continue reading
Selecting matching key/value pairs from a hash
I ran into a situation today where I needed to pull out all key/value pairs from a hash that matched the keys in a pre-existing array. This is what I initially came up with: hash = { :foo => “foo”, :bar => “bar”, :bat => “bat” } hash.symbolize_keys.reject { |k, … Continue reading
AppleScript via Ruby
Nice to see Ruby getting some attention on a non-Ruby blog.
Andy Hunt crashes raleigh.rb tonight
Andy Hunt will be speaking at the Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade meetup tonight. It’s sure to be a good show, so grab a fellow geek and head on down to Red Hat headquarters at 7 PM. Signs will direct you to the correct room. Also, if you want an even bigger … Continue reading
Mind blowing Ruby
I’ve been writing Ruby code for over four years now. I’ve been getting paid to do so for about two years. Prior to that, the bacon I brought home came mainly through the careful crafting of lines of Java, PHP, and C# code. Matz spoiled the party for me in … Continue reading
Introduction to rcov, code coverage for Ruby
Do you routinely test your code? Are you using rcov to run code coverage reports for your tests? If you aren’t, you should be. rcov is a code coverage tool for Ruby that is available as a Gem or a Rails plugin. It can generate text or HTML reports outlining … Continue reading
RubyConf 2006: Day 3
The last day of RubyConf is now almost over. It was a seriously great conference. As I mentioned previously, I’ve never been to a RubyConf before so I didn’t know what to expect. I’m glad I went. It was great hanging out with some seriously smart people. Several of the … Continue reading