I hang out in #nwrug on Freenode, the IRC channel of a Ruby user group here in the UK, and floated the idea of doing a PostgreSQL (a.k.a. Postgres) installation tutorial for Ruby Inside. Coincidentally, it turned out 37signals sysadmin
How to Install and Use Postgres On OS X For Ruby and Rails Development
How to Install and Use Postgres On OS X For Ruby and Rails Development
I hang out in #nwrug on Freenode, the IRC channel of a Ruby user group here in the UK, and floated the idea of doing a PostgreSQL (a.k.a. Postgres) installation tutorial for Ruby Inside. Coincidentally, it turned out 37signals sysadmin
Interesting Ruby Tidbits #32: DataMapper, Screencasts, IP Addresses, Euruko 2010 and more
The latest installment of my series of roundup posts, covering some of my latest findings in the world of all things Ruby. Why two "tidbits" posts in a row? Well, I'm radically redesigning/reworking Ruby Inside to be more interesting, both to you and me. This coupled with work on my...
Interesting Ruby and Rails Tidbits #31
The latest installment of our series of roundup posts, covering some of our latest findings in the world of all things Ruby (or not). These items wouldn't make it in as separate posts, but they should be of enough interest to Rubyists generally to make it a worthwhile browse for...
Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #30
The latest installment of our series of roundup posts, covering some of our latest findings in the world of all things Ruby. These items wouldn't make it in as separate posts, but they should be of enough interest to Rubyists generally to make it a worthwhile browse for most readers.
How To Find Ruby User Groups
Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share ideas, and, often, to have some fun. If you're lacking for inspiration or want to get to know some Rubyists within certain parts of the...
How Ruby Manages Memory and Garbage Collection
Garbage Collection and the Ruby Heap is a presentation given by Joe Damato and Aman Gupta at the recent LA Ruby Conference. You only get the slides for now (all 70 of them!), but they're very detailed and can almost work as a standalone concise e-book...
5 Chapters of O’Reilly’s Ruby Best Practices – Free!
Ruby Best Practices is a book by Gregory Brown (and published by O'Reilly) that looks into the "Ruby way" of doing things in the Ruby language and, specifically, why Rubyists tend to write Ruby the way they do. It's an engaging book and we took a look...
Sick of Rails 3.0 yet or still enjoying your Friendly: Easy Schemaless “NoSQL” Data Storage with MySQL in Ruby
Friendly is a new Ruby ORM (a la ActiveRecord) that lets you easily use NoSQL ideas on regular database engines, such as MySQL. Developer James Golick has written a blog post introducing Friendly that goes into detail on how it works - with code...
Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don’t Need Separate Posts #29
Welcome to the latest installment in the series of compilation posts summarizing some of my latest findings in the world of all things Ruby. Let's tackle those links..
Thinking Functionally In Ruby – A Great Presentation by Tom Stuart
Thinking Functionally in Ruby is a talk that British Ruby developer Tom Stuart gave at a recent London Ruby Users Group meeting. In it he covers what functional programming is, why it's a "pretty neat idea," and how to adopt functional programming principles in Ruby. Skills...
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