Robert is a voracious reader, Ruby aficionado, and other big words. He is currently looking for interesting projects to work on and can be found at his website.
Robert's articles
Improve Your Ruby with the Adapter Design Pattern
By Robert Qualls,
Robert Qualls looks at the Adapter Design pattern in various popular Ruby gems, following it up with an example implementation.
Projects That Are Making Blazing Fast Ruby a Reality
By Robert Qualls,
Robert Qualls looks at 2 projects that could lift Ruby in to the upper echelon of fast languages. No, really. Fast Ruby could be a thing, soon.
Hackable PDF Typesetting in Ruby with Prawn
By Robert Qualls,
Robert Qualls explores typesetting and hackable PDFs in Ruby. Learn how to quickly typeset and generate PDFs for some simple document needs.
Ruby Can Be Faster with a Bit of Rust
By Robert Qualls,
Robert Qualls introduces Rust to Rubyists, showing how to write a dynamic library to allow Ruby to consume Rust, making Ruby faster when it's done right.
Fun and Practical Alfred Workflows in Ruby
By Robert Qualls,
Robert Qualls walks through some practical Alfred workflows using Ruby. Create a calendar event, convert some currency, and learn how much fun Alfred can be
Holy Hacking, Batman! Create Alfred Workflows in Ruby
By Robert Qualls,
Robert Qualls takes a look at creating workflows in Alfred with Ruby. Alfred brings great utility to the Mac, and extending it with Ruby brings more.
Loading Code with Ruby
By Robert Qualls,
Robert Qualls dives into the Ruby load path, including how ‘require’ works, how ‘load’ works, and how to make sure your code always gets loaded.
Decoupling with Lotus
By Robert Qualls,
Robert Qualls explores Lotus, a Ruby web framework that aims to make MVC more object-oriented. No monkey patching, for the win!
The Ruby Ecosystem for New Rubyists
By Robert Qualls,
Ruby is more than just a language. It has a universe of tools and processes supporting the creation of the complex software it makes. This can be overwhelming to newcomers, so I've put together an article that will hopefully make things a little more clear.
More Common Trip-ups for New Rubyists
By Robert Qualls,
Robert Qualls looks at more common items in Ruby that can trip up programmers new at the language.
Common Trip-ups for New Rubyists, Part I
By Robert Qualls,
GUI Applications with Shoes
By Robert Qualls,
Parsing with the Parslet Gem
By Robert Qualls,
Forking and IPC in Ruby, Part II
By Robert Qualls,
Forking and IPC in Ruby, Part I
By Robert Qualls,
A Guide to Ruby Collections IV: Tips and Tricks
By Robert Qualls,
A Guide to Ruby Collections III: Enumerable and Enumerator
By Robert Qualls,
A Guide to Ruby Collections, II: Hashes, Sets, and Ranges
By Robert Qualls,
A Guide to Ruby Collections, Part I: Arrays
By Robert Qualls,
A Tour Through Random Ruby
By Robert Qualls,
Winewatcher – Desktop Notifications in Ruby
By Robert Qualls,
Seeking Lovecraft, Part 1: An introduction to NLP and the Treat Gem
By Robert Qualls,