Ruby

My Cub Scouts say they want to do more camping, fishing, whittling, and science. Gonna be a fun summer. Sortbox - "Like e-mail filters, for your Dropbox". Looks interesting, though I'm always wary of trusting yet another company with access to my da...

What? Time for computers again instead of hikes and sleeping in a hammock? Oh well. Five Common Rails Mistakes - Welll….good tips here, but I don't think Rails is a "one size fits all" system. Some things that are mistakes in large systems are jus...

What? Time for computers again instead of hikes and sleeping in a hammock? Oh well. Five Common Rails Mistakes - Welll….good tips here, but I don't think Rails is a "one size fits all" system. Some things that are mistakes in large systems are jus...

Off for another weekend in the woods. RubyMotion - "Unlock the power of Ruby for iOS" That is, you can build native iPad apps in Ruby. This is huge news. Here are a couple of early reviews. Pragmatic has a free screencast as well. RubyMotionSample...

This is going to be another of those "ten pounds of stuff in a five pound sack" says. OpenSSL Errors and Rails – Certificate Verify Failed – Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError - An extensive discussion of what's going on, along with workarounds. An...

This is going to be another of those "ten pounds of stuff in a five pound sack" says. OpenSSL Errors and Rails – Certificate Verify Failed – Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError - An extensive discussion of what's going on, along with workarounds. An...

Sometimes it feels like life is just rushing by. Power of graylog2 web interface - A quick look at the sort of information you can extract from this log aggregator. ruby HTTP client performance shootout redux - One for the benchmarking wonks, toget...

13 days in a row of Scouting events. I must be nuts. Secure Shell - Implemented as a Chrome extension. Just in case you have Chrome installed on a platform without a terminal emulator, I guess. Doppio - And while we're on the topic of things that a...

13 days in a row of Scouting events. I must be nuts. Secure Shell - Implemented as a Chrome extension. Just in case you have Chrome installed on a platform without a terminal emulator, I guess. Doppio - And while we're on the topic of things that a...

Cleaning out the browser tabs after another busy weekend. Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary - Agile meets Ambrose Bierce to form an instant classic. Concerned about Code Reuse? - An introduction to ActiveSupport::Concern, an underused tool. SSL_c...

Cleaning out the browser tabs after another busy weekend. Cynical Agile and Scrum Dictionary - Agile meets Ambrose Bierce to form an instant classic. Concerned about Code Reuse? - An introduction to ActiveSupport::Concern, an underused tool. SSL_c...

About to push another week into the dustbin of history. A sneak preview of Phusion Passenger 3.2, part 2 - Passenger is still out there, and the next release is out in pre-release. It's got notably lower memory requirements for one thing. TotalSpac...