Sinatra Up and Running is a new book published by O'Reilly and written by Alan Harris and Konstantin Hasse that covers the popular Sinatra web application DSL in a brisk 103 pages, acting as a tutorial to newcomers and a handy...
A Lagom Review of O’Reilly’s ‘Sinatra Up and Running’
Ludum Dare for Rubyists: An Online 48 Hour Game Coding Competition
Ludum Dare is an online accelerated game development event that focuses on regular 48 hour competitions. Think Rails Rumble but for games! It's been around since 2002 but has had a big publicity boost recently due to the participation of Notch, the creator of the mind-bogglingly popular indie game Minecraft.
The next Ludum Dare...
Ludum Dare for Rubyists: An Online 48 Hour Game Coding Competition
Ludum Dare is an online accelerated game development event that focuses on regular 48 hour competitions. Think Rails Rumble but for games! It's been around since 2002 but has had a big publicity boost recently due to the participation of Notch, the creator of the mind-bogglingly popular indie game Minecraft.
Ruby News and Releases in 2011: A Retrospective
2011 is drawing to a close and I have been reminded of a post I made about a year ago: Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby. 2010 was a stunning year with the release of Ruby 1.9.2, MacRuby 0.5, Sinatra 1.0, Rubinius 1.0, and DataMapper 1.0!
This year, MagLev, Capybara,...
This Week’s Ruby News: awesome_print 1.0, a new Sinatra book, and more
Welcome to this week's Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly - it's bumper sized this week. And a big congratulations to David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, as he got married recently!
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This Week’s Ruby News: awesome_print 1.0, a new Sinatra book, and more
Welcome to this week's Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly - it's bumper sized this week. And a big congratulations to David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, as he got married recently!
Headlines
Sinatra: Up and Running (New Book from O'Reilly) A new book...
Last Week’s Top Ruby News: Rails 3.1.3, autoload deprecated, and conferences
It's a couple of days late but here are the main headlines from the last week of Ruby news. We have a couple of Rails releases, some event news, and the usual gaggle of great articles and jobs.
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Rails 3.1.3 Released (Very Quickly After 3.1.2)...
Last Week’s Top Ruby News: Rails 3.1.3, autoload deprecated, and conferences
It's a couple of days late but here are the main headlines from the last week of Ruby news. We have a couple of Rails releases, some event news, and the usual gaggle of great articles and jobs.
Headlines
Rails 3.1.3 Released (Very Quickly After 3.1.2) This release mainly contains fixes for regressions that popped up in...
This Week’s Ruby News: RSpec 2.8.0 RC1, Minitest 2.8.0, and What’s New in Bundler 1.1?
After last week's bumper set of releases the Ruby world seems a lot quieter this week :-) (Even here. I've been hidden away teaching my Ruby Reloaded course!)
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RSpec 2.8.0 RC1 Released
The next significant release of RSpec is afoot and its first release candidate is now out. Key improvements come to configuration...
This Week’s Ruby News: RSpec 2.8.0 RC1, Minitest 2.8.0, and What’s New in Bundler 1.1?
After last week's bumper set of releases the Ruby world seems a lot quieter this week :-) (Even here. I've been hidden away teaching my Ruby Reloaded course!)
Headlines
RSpec 2.8.0 RC1 Released The next significant release of RSpec is afoot and its first release candidate is now out. Key improvements come to configuration (and...
Ruby’s Unary Operators and How to Define Their Functionality
In math, a unary operation is an operation with a single input. In Ruby, a unary operator is an operator which only takes a single 'argument' in the form of a receiver. For example, the - on -5 or...
The Ruby Standard Library To Be Converted to Gems for Ruby 2.0?
The Ruby standard library (a.k.a. stdlib) is a collection of Ruby libraries that, at one time or another, have been considered useful enough to include with the MRI Ruby implementation by standard. Due to the popularity of these libraries, other...
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