Posts Tagged ‘ Miscellaneous ’

EuRuKo 2010: Summaries, Videos, and Photos from Europe’s Ruby Conference

2010/08/28
By Peter Cooper
EuRuKo 2010: Summaries, Videos, and Photos from Europe’s Ruby Conference

EuRuKo is the brand of Europe's principal Ruby conference series and EuRuKo 2010 took place in late May. Why, then, am I posting about it in August? First, I'm a strong supporter of EuRuKo and promised to post a roundup of the event here. Secondly, it turns out it took a while for...
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home_run: Ruby’s Date and DateTime Classes, But 20-200x Faster

2010/08/23
By Peter Cooper
home_run: Ruby’s Date and DateTime Classes, But 20-200x Faster

home_run is an implementation of ruby’s Date/DateTime classes in C, with much better performance (20-200x) than the version in the standard library, while being almost completely compatible.

Jeremy Evans


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Building “skinny daemons” in Ruby

2010/08/17
By Peter Cooper
Building “skinny daemons” in Ruby

e’ve been having a lot of fun writing a series of small, self-contained web apps .. When we’re building these kinds of applications, which are often meant as low-ceremony apps targeted at a very specific purpose, or as service utilities, a lot of the time we don’t want to go through the hassle associated...
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Mongomatic: A New Ruby MongoDB Library Hits The Scene

2010/08/14
By Peter Cooper
Mongomatic: A New Ruby MongoDB Library Hits The Scene

Back in June, I did a comparison of Mongoid and MongoMapper, the two best known MongoDB libraries for Ruby. Now, Ben Myles has brought another to the fore: Mongomatic.


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Making A Code Coverage Tool for Ruby 1.9

2010/08/13
By Peter Cooper
Making A Code Coverage Tool for Ruby 1.9

Aaron Patterson (of Nokogiri fame) has written a post for the AT&T Interactive blog about writing a code coverage tool with Ruby 1.9:


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Microsoft Tires of IronRuby; Jimmy Schementi Jumps Ship

2010/08/06
By Peter Cooper
Microsoft Tires of IronRuby; Jimmy Schementi Jumps Ship

In April, we wrote about IronRuby hitting 1.0 and Microsoft's "3 years with Ruby off." It's sad, then, to read today that program manager Jimmy Schementi is leaving Microsoft citing a rapidly decreasing interest in dynamic languages (other than JavaScript) at the software giant.


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Lyle Johnson Retires from the FXRuby GUI Toolkit

2010/08/05
By Peter Cooper
Lyle Johnson Retires from the FXRuby GUI Toolkit

Yesterday, Lyle Johnson of the FXRuby GUI toolkit project stood aside as the project's maintainer, effectively retiring the project:


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“and” vs && and “or” vs || in Ruby

2010/08/02
By Peter Cooper
“and” vs && and “or” vs || in Ruby

If you use Ruby long enough, you will discover the and and or operators. These appear at first glance to be synonyms for && and ||. You will then be tempted to use these English oprators in place of && and ||, for the sake of improved readability. Assuming you yield to that temptation,...
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