Shinmun, a small and beautiful blog engine
Shinmun is a tiny blog engine in Ruby in about 250 lines of code. It supports RSS feeds, category listing and listing by date.
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Better window management with ElScreen
GNU Emacs - multiple window setups in one frame
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Asynchronous Database Access in Ruby
Benchmarks of the latest MySQLPlus, EM/MySQL and DBSlayer libraries for asynchronous database access in Ruby - with surprising and promising results!
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One day of TDD, and other thoughts on testing
Reflections on spending one day doing TDD. Then other thoughts about how testing has changed my developer habits.
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Non-Blocking Database Adapters: MySQL, Postgres supported now - which DBs are next?
Besides Postgres, NeverBlock now also supports MySQL through the new MySQLPlus adapter. InfoQ talked to two of the developers of MySQLPlus and... more »
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Scripting tips & tricks , part 3
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This article discusses writing cool DSL's in Perl/Ruby ! Check it out !
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Charles Nutter: The Elephant
I was just having a conversation with a friend, a Rubyist whose opinion I respect, who clued me in that he really hates when JRuby users use Java... more »
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Rails plugin for 99translations updated.
99translations Ruby on Rails integration plugin is updated to support Rails 2.2 i18n.
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Making Rails 12x faster with NeverBlock
What if you suddenly had the ability to serve mutliple concurrent requests in a single Rails instance? What if you had the ability to multiplex IO... more »
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Nicely formatted JSON on the command line
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You have a URL that outputs JSON, and you want to quickly see its contents from the shell, but nicely formatted, not the raw output wget spits; just... more »
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Patch3 for NetBeans IDE 6.1 Now Available
I would like to inform you that a new patch for NetBeans IDE 6.1 is now available on the Update Center.
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REST With Rails Part 1
In this first part I will show you how to build RESTful services using Rails. REST is an architectural style modeled after the Web. Basically, it... more »
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Ruby on V8
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Google Chrome looks cool, ok… But what is even cooler for me is V8, the super JavaScript VM. JavaScript is a dynamic language, just like Ruby. You... more »
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An Introduction To Fibers
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You know Thread, but have you heard of his red haired step child? Fiber? Fibers are a new and a note worthy addition to Ruby that appeared with 1.9.... more »
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Automating PowerPoint with Ruby
PowerPoint exposes a full-featured object model for automating, so there's virtually nothing that you can't do with PowerPoint via Ruby code.
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Flexible Rails Application - Beginnings of a Flex/Flash Social Networking Site
Using Ruboss, the new Flex on Rails web framework, you can now build an Enterprise Flex Application that connects to any database using Ruby on Rails.... more »
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Scripting tips & tricks , part 2
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The saga continues with basic web scraping in Ruby/Perl .
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Day project learning Ruby Shoes and making a tiny IM client
Inspired by two posts _Why’s ’so create’ and GitHub’s Start a Side Project I decided that I needed to do a quick side project. After our demo day we... more »
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Unexpected JRuby overload resolution
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Had an interesting bug using Hibernate from JRuby today. Totally unexpected actually. Interestingly, it actually exposed a problem with dynamic... more »
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Scripting tips & tricks , part 1
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This is the first of a series dedicated to scripting languages ( mostly perl & ruby ) .The first one is about ruby's method_missing and perl's... more »
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Getting Started With A Templating System (Ruby on Rails)
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Since we’re using Ruby on Rails, we’re don’t have to select a templating system, there’s one already built into Rails itself. It offers many different... more »
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Announcing Ribs 0.0.1
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Ribs is a library for JRuby, that allows you to persist Ruby objects using Hibernate. Some time ago I wrote about ActiveHibernate. I have now decided... more »
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Juggernaut
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The Juggernaut plugin for Ruby on Rails aims to revolutionize your Rails app by letting the server initiate a connection and push data to the client.... more »
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Async I/O to fix Ruby's green threads: Creators of NeverBlock and Revactor interviewed
Ruby 1.9's Fibers and non-blocking I/O are getting more attention - we talked to Mohammad A. Ali of the NeverBlock (Async PostgreSQL and MySQL drivers... more »
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Ruby Hoedown - What Isn't a Cloud
Robert Dempsey has an excellent talk up on Confreaks where he looks at the Ruby language accessing Cloud computing. As Robert knows, Standard... more »
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