Given that Dan once ran RubySource and I’d already put a face to the name at one RORO meeting a couple of weeks earlier, it was stellar to actually get to know him better over the weekend.... Read More
Ruby on Rails Tutorials & Articles
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about splitting out work to be done into threads to improve performance of a URL checker. A commenter noted that the parallel gem could be used to achieve the... Read More
One of the great things to come out of RC9 was Swizzle. Authored by Nick Partridge it uses Haskell, Sinatra, and Javascript to get the game running. Perhaps I’m not quite the wordsmith that I’d... Read More
RailsCamp9 formed what was about 72 of the fastest hours of my life. I’ve made it back across the border from New South Wales into Queensland, I can hear the fairly constant roar of planes taking... Read More
The first time I saw Ryan Bigg at RailsCamp, he was wearing a Superman outfit, because he was just announced as a Ruby Hero. The second time I saw him, he was dressed formally, which was confusing... Read More
I had the pleasure of meeting the illustrious Kirill on the first night of RailsCamp. He told me that he’s quite prolific and everyone knows him, he was absolutely correct. He’s quite a... Read More
Today started much like the days that came before it, though I made it to breakfast, which has a pretty ambitious deadline of 8am. I wish I had some more great photos to share, but the fact of the... Read More
Here’s a quick look at some of the sessions happening at Lake Ainsworth today. Rails Talks Today I’m currently sitting in Ruby for Noobs Part II. It is very detailed, it’s great! World's... Read More
Make your mark in the brave new world of Ruby on Rails! In this action-packed adventure, Patrick provides rock-solid foundations in object oriented programming principles, and a detailed explanation... Read More
Ruby on Rails can be tricky for developers coming from other platforms—not only do you need to learn a new language, but a whole new set of best practices as well. Darcy runs through the top 10... Read More
Google's Social Graph API gives developers access to a wealth of public social data mined from the Web. In this tutorial, Louis extends a Ruby on Rails user registration form to query the API and... Read More
Want to create a customized blog, without having to deal with the complexity of WordPress? Introducing Jekyll, a web site creation engine with a sophisticated templating system that's dead simple to... Read More
We've all heard the arguments that Rails doesn't scale, it's hard to deploy or that it will explode in your hands at any given moment. For those of us that use Rails on a daily basis, we know that... Read More
It isn't particularly surprising that timezone support is a pretty important component of web applications, as the web really is a global medium. If you are building an application that has to deal... Read More
