NeverBlock. co-routines for ruby. requires ruby 1.9.
NeverBlock. co-routines for ruby. requires ruby 1.9.
Hadoop: When grownups do open source | The Register. that’s probably the best thing i’ve ever read about programming.
Frankie Goes To Facebook. 1 gem install, 18 lines of ruby, 2 lines of config, a couple clicks on facebook, and i have an authenticated hello world app.
rubyfringejazz.muxtape.com. Nick Sieger did a talk at rubyfringe about the evolution of jazz and how it relates to ruby. this is the muxtape of what he played.
zerosum dirt(nap) - Clone Pastie with Sinatra & DataMapper 0.9. i’m very eager to try and make some simple app with sinatra and datamapper.
Astrails - Being Lazy with Ruby. lazy evals for expensive calls in ruby.
James on Software: Gems I’ve Known and Loved #1: Expectations. interesting ruby testing framework.
ToDo’s On Your Desktop // RailsTips.org by John Nunemaker. some interesting tools i’ve never heard of (todoist and geektool).
Ruby Timeout Errors aren’t Standard Errors. so you have to explicitly catch Timeout:Error. I was wondering why this was happening. Time for a monkeypatch!
Rails Garden » Object-Oriented Approach to Blank Checking/Defaulting. i do those blank? ternary ifs all the time.
Codefluency: Migrating to Ruby 1.9. a list of what’s probably the big gotchas. and hash will now preserve insertion order. random.
GitHub RubyGems. github now has a ruby gem server. gem install anyone’s branch of just about anything. very cool.
Couldn’t Be At MountainWest RubyConf? Watch The Presentations Now!. some decent looking talks lined-up.
Scout - Web Monitoring and Reporting Software. host monitoring solution that uses ruby.
try() method for ruby “@person ? @person.name : nil” vs “@person.try(:name)”. nice simple idea
Adapting Ambitiously — err.the_blog. this might actually be useful for all the SOAP mapping i do.
Rethink: Announcing RubyFringe. unspace is running it’s own ruby conference. “Deep nerd tech with punk rock spirit.” i shall definitely be in attendance.
Rubiverse::Podcast.new(”Zed Shaw on Leaving Ruby”). tech communities are way too self consumed.
Nimble Method: Guerrilla’s Guide to Optimizing Rails Applications. in case you really care about rails perf.
Nimble Method: Garbage Collection is Why Ruby on Rails is Slow: Patches to Improve Performance 5x. for some types of ActiveRecord methods. hopefully this will get into core soon enough.
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