Latest Story

Sep 3, 2010: Twitter for iPad and Other Craziness

2010/09/03
By noelrap
Sep 3, 2010: Twitter for iPad and Other Craziness

Book Status RSpec chapter edits complete, a dozen or so errata squashed, and hopefully we’ll get beta 7 out. I suspect it’ll be after Labor Day, though. I’m pleased with how this one turned out. The RSpec chapter is a challenge — I’m literally squeezing a book’s worth of content into a chapter, but I
Read more »

How to Build a “Spy Camera” App for an Android Phone with Ruby and Sinatra

2010/09/02
By Peter Cooper
How to Build a “Spy Camera” App for an Android Phone with Ruby and Sinatra

It's been a great year for Ruby on Android, but no one knows it. You can start writing Ruby apps for Android devices TODAY. You don't need to install any SDK, you don't need to install some giant Eclipse IDE, and you certainly don't need to write any Java.

Mike Leone


Read more »

Programming Challenge for Newbies in Clojure and Python too?

2010/09/01
By Satish Talim
Programming Challenge for Newbies in Clojure and Python too?

Programming Challenge for Newbies in Clojure and Python too? RubyLearning has been conducting the monthly Ruby Programming Challenge for Newbies for over a year now and so far 12 challenges have been completed. The 13th challenge is in progress. All this was possible due to the extensive support we got from Rubyists across the world.
Read more »

Announcing RailsDeveloper

2010/09/01
By Robby Russell
Announcing RailsDeveloper

Earlier today… our team at Planet Argon launched a new site for the Ruby on Rails community. If you have a few spare minutes, I’d love it if you’d to head over and read the announcement on RailsDeveloper.Enjoy!
Read more »

Prag Guide to Svn; Agile Flashes and Schrodinger’s cat

2010/09/01
By Andrew Hunt

Pragmatic Guide to Subversion now in beta, new issue #15 of PragPub magazine.


Read more »

The Ruby Show #131: Rails 3

The Ruby Show #131: Rails 3

In this episode, Jason and Dan bring you up to speed on the recently released rails 3.
Read more »

Enterprise Social Apps

2010/08/31
By Heroku
Enterprise Social Apps

With over 80,000 applications on Heroku, we are frequently asked what type of apps people are building. While there’s a wide range, one of the areas I’ve been most excited about is social apps. We have thousands of social applications aro...
Read more »

August 31, 2010: Bundled Mockingjays

2010/08/31
By noelrap
August 31, 2010: Bundled Mockingjays

Book Status Editing the RSpec chapter, which I expect to be done today, it’s all done except for a couple of hard questions from the editor which last-night me decided to leave for this-morning me, so that last-night me could finish Mockingjay. Thanks, last-night me! A Bundler Question I’m not sure whether this is a
Read more »

RPCFN: Economics 101 (#13)

2010/08/31
By Satish Talim
RPCFN: Economics 101 (#13)

Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies RPCFN: Economics 101 (#13) By Dr. Bruce Scharlau About Dr. Bruce Scharlau In Dr. Bruce’s own words: “I’ve been using and teaching Ruby since trying out the cookbook example in the summer of 2006. As soon as I saw how much easier it all was with Ruby and Rails, I
Read more »

Appreciate Rails 3 with charity

2010/08/30
By David

Rails 3.0 is a gift from all of us who’ve worked on it to anyone who wants to build something. If you like our gift, please show it by donating to the Rails 3.0 release charity: Charity:Water. We’ve started a campaign to raise $100,000...
Read more »

RubyDoc.info: Good Looking, Up-To-Date Ruby Documentation

2010/08/30
By Peter Cooper
RubyDoc.info: Good Looking, Up-To-Date Ruby Documentation


Read more »

27 Video Presentations from RubyKaigi 2010

2010/08/30
By Peter Cooper
27 Video Presentations from RubyKaigi 2010


Read more »

Aug 30, 2010: Rails 3 has landed

2010/08/30
By noelrap
Aug 30, 2010: Rails 3 has landed

Top Story As you probably know, both Rails 3 and Bundler went final over the weekend. The Rails 3 release notes are up, as well as extensive coverage on the Rails Guides page. I’ll also mention Jeremy McAnally’s Rails 3 Upgrade handbookhttp, and Gregg Pollack’s list of great Rails 3 documentation sources. And, just for
Read more »

Episode 229: Polling for Changes

2010/08/30
By Ryan Bates

If you have frequently changing data on the server side, it's helpful to automatically display this to the user as well. Here I show how to accomplish this with polling in jQuery.
Read more »

Rails 3.0 Released (And 22 Free Videos To Bring You Up To Speed)

2010/08/29
By Peter Cooper
Rails 3.0 Released (And 22 Free Videos To Bring You Up To Speed)

Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare it’s finally here. We’ve brought the work of more than 1,600 contributors together to make everything better, faster, cleaner, and more beautiful.

David Heinemeier Hansson


Read more »

Building an Object Mapper: Override-able Accessors

2010/08/29
By John Nunemaker
Building an Object Mapper: Override-able Accessors

In which I explain how to make your attribute accessors override-able from scratch or by using ActiveModel.


Read more »