Ruby

Tired of having no choice but to add aliases for localhost to /etc/hosts every time you work on a site that uses subdomains? Me too. That’s why I grabbed smackaho.st and made it a localhost wildcard, pointing *.smackaho.st at 127.0.0.1. If you’re a Rails developer, try visiting http://dontmakeme.smackaho.st:3000/.

I’ve moved my blog to Jekyll. I think this is the post where I’m supposed to apologize for falling off the blog wagon and promise to post more in the future, though truth be told I have few regrets and make no promises. My aged Drupal install had gotten to the point where I felt...

I want to take a moment to elaborate on what makes a well formed commit message. I think the best practices for commit message formatting is one of the little details that makes Git great. Understandably, some of the first commits to rails.git have messages of the really-long-line variety, and I want to expand on...

Today I devised a little script to generate Ruby examples showing code and output.

% rubydemo '[1,2,3].inject {|m,o|m+o}'
[1,2,3].inject {|m,o|m+o} #=> 6
% rubydemo 1/0
1/0 #=> #<ZeroDivisionError: divided by 0>

Here’s the script I used for generation. (It could have been one line if I didn’t care so much about exception formatting.)

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
print ARGV.