Ruby Tutorials

We answer take a look at the Code Insight feature from RubyMine to help answer the question: "what does RubyMine do that a text editor can't?"

Fred Heath discusses the many different many-to-many associations and how to handle each with ActiveRecord.

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Viktoria Kotsurenko explains seven very useful design patterns and how they can be applied to MVC components in Rails to make your app more maintainable.

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski offers a clean example of good metaprogramming in Ruby.

David Bush dives into the internals of how hashes work in Ruby, including a neat experiment to drive home the point.

Paul Goetze explains how to use JRuby to create a machine learning algorithm using Ruby.

Ardian Haxha builds a Twitter client GUI using Ruby, Shoes, and the Twitter API.

Glenn Goodrich shows that, although there are many ways to create a Hash in Ruby, they are all just a bit of child's play.

William Kennedy uses a simple example of making integers into Roman numerals to show off Ruby metaprogramming.

Vahob Rasti uses Dropzone.js to equip a Rails application with multiple file, asynchronous upload.

David Bush shows you some basic and advanced techniques with Byebug, the definitive debugger for Ruby 2.0. 

Glenn Goodrich takes another deep dive into the world of Bundler, this time focusing on the utilities that ship with Bundler. 

Glenn Goodrich takes a deep dive into the Gemfile, the core of Bundler's excellent dependency management ecosystem.

Jesus Castello walks through the basics of cryptography using examples in Ruby. This is an excellent primer on crypto.

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We've talked a bit about interviewing with Ruby and the basic tools of the game. In this article, we will consider some full problem walkthroughs.

Dhaivat Pandya covers linked lists and hash tables from the Ruby interviewee's point of view. Get ready for Ruby interviews with this post.

Robert Qualls looks at the Adapter Design pattern in various popular Ruby gems, following it up with an example implementation.

Benjamin Tan Wei Hao shows you are different kind of testing called "property-based testing". Generate 100s or 1000s or iterations for your tests.

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.

Robert Qualls explores typesetting and hackable PDFs in Ruby. Learn how to quickly typeset and generate PDFs for some simple document needs.

A. Hasan applies Ruby to the medical domain, creating and viewing medical images. See how to encode and decode images, and use Tk to view them.

Kingsley Silas walks through a real Rails setup with RSpec. Learn some of the first best practices to kick start your Rails testing with RSpec.

I'll get you prepped and ready to go so you can build a card game using Ruby 2.0. You're on your way towards having ruby ticked off your your to-do list.

Fred Heath zeroes in on several anti-patterns that are commonly perpetrated by Ruby Rookies. Fred also shows how to solve them.

A.Hasan walks through counting the frequency of words in a large text file with Ruby. This technique is useful skill to have in your Ruby tool belt.

We are going to discuss Singleton methods, including callbacks to observe method changes and the differences between removing and undefining methods.

Eigenclasses are probably one of the most mysterious and crucial parts of the Ruby object model. In this video I will reveal the mystery of eigenclasses.

The first video of "Metaprogramming in Ruby" series. I will demonstrate how to implement dynamic methods making your code more elegant and concise.