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There I was, sitting at my desk looking over the upcoming article schedule for Rubysource, when I realized I had inadvertently published TWO articles on Wednesday. The immediate consequence of my... Read More

We’ve finally arrived at the moment of the map. For the last several articles in the Loccasions series , I have promised things like “in the next post we will deal with the map” and “I will... Read More
You have built an awesome application. You need to get it out there. Let’s face it, deployments should be easy, repeatable and if it doesn’t work out, you should be able to roll back to the last... Read More

Ruby golf is the art of writing code that uses as few characters as possible. The idea originates in the world of Perl (where it is, unsurprisingly, known as Perl Golf). As a language, Perl is well... Read More
Here are some of the best posts on RubySource in the month of October, in case you missed them.Read More
You see gems everywhere in the Ruby world. They are the backbone of just about every Ruby app out there. I’ll admit that I was a bit intimidated the first time I tried to create a gem, but I soon... Read More
Our last post flushed out the Events model and created a very basic home page. Hopefully, by the end of this post, we will be able to add, modify, and delete events from our user home page. CRUDdy... Read More
Common question for .NET developers deciding to venture into Ruby are: Where do I start? What should I learn first: Ruby or Rails? What do I need installed? What are the best resources to get startedRead More
If you’ve ever developed something using Ruby then you know it’s a blast to use. It flows well, reads well, and has lots of cool ways to get things done. Beyond the day-to-day APIs you might be... Read More
In the last article we had a whistle stop tour of blocks. How they are defined, what purposes they serve and the differences between various Ruby versions. It was all very academic. Read More
Ruby is an opinionated language, and it has an opinionated community. This is a great thing. It keeps the language clean, understandable, and fun. Ruby can be antagonistic when it comes to a... Read More
In our last post, we ended with very basic authentication working. However, we are faking out the events_path in our sign_in spec, which is where we’ll start. A successful sign-in redirects to the... Read More
In the last post in our series on Switching from .NET to Ruby, we looked at Classes . Classes were a real in depth topic since there’s a large number of class differences between .NET and Ruby.... Read More
Last week, Heroku announced a new partnership with Facebook that integrates the hosting platform, removing the burden of entry to app development. RubySource Editor Glenn Goodrich explains.Read More




