Performance Testing Rails Applications — How To?
Performance Testing Rails Applications — How To? This guest post is by Gonçalo Silva, who is a full-time Ruby on Rails developer at escolinhas.pt and has participated in the Ruby Summer of Code 2010. He loves and contributes to many open-source projects, being a fan of Linux, Ruby and Android. He likes to call himself...
Top 3 Posts for July 2011 on RubyLearning
(Based on Google Analytics) In case you missed them, here’s the roundup of the Top 3 posts for July 2011 on RubyLearning. Enjoy! 1. Throw, Catch, Raise, Rescue… I’m so confused! Avdi Grimm explains the usage of Throw, Catch, Raise, Rescue in the Ruby programming language. One of the aspects of Ruby that often confuses...
How do I test my code with Minitest?
How do I test my code with Minitest? This guest post is by Steve Klabnik, who is a software craftsman, writer, and former startup CTO. Steve tries to keep his Ruby consulting hours down so that he can focus on maintaining Hackety Hack and being a core member of Team Shoes, as well as writing...
How do I test my code with Minitest?
How do I test my code with Minitest? This guest post is by Steve Klabnik, who is a software craftsman, writer, and former startup CTO. Steve tries to keep his Ruby consulting hours down so that he can focus on maintaining Hackety Hack and being a core member of Team Shoes, as well as writing...
Cryptography Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love AES
Cryptography Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love AES This guest post is by Phillip Gawlowski, who is living in the German wilderness of Oberberg near Cologne. Phillip spends his time writing Ruby as a hobby just for fun. He tries to make life a little easier for himself and for others when...
Throw, Catch, Raise, Rescue… I’m so confused!
Throw, Catch, Raise, Rescue… I’m so confused! This guest post is by Avdi Grimm, who is the author of “Exceptional Ruby“, an in-depth guide to exceptions and failure handling in Ruby. RubyLearning readers can get a $3 discount on the book by using code RUBYLEARN. Avdi has been hacking Ruby code for 10 years, and...
Throw, Catch, Raise, Rescue… I’m so confused!
Throw, Catch, Raise, Rescue… I’m so confused! This guest post is by Avdi Grimm, who is the author of “Exceptional Ruby“, an in-depth guide to exceptions and failure handling in Ruby. RubyLearning readers can get a $3 discount on the book by using code RUBYLEARN. Avdi has been hacking Ruby code for 10 years, and...
How do I smell Ruby code?
How do I smell Ruby code? Understanding the worst of code This guest post is by Timon Vonk, who is a self-employed Ruby enthusiast and standard nerd with an edge. He has worked with Ruby for several years, but is well-known with many other (programming) languages. Also likes martial arts, loud music, varying quantities of...
Interview: Michael Hartl, author of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (railstutorial.org)
RubyLearning participants talk to Michael Hartl the author of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (railstutorial.org). Satish Talim>> Welcome Michael and thanks for taking out time for RubyLearning. For the benefit of the readers of this blog could you please introduce yourself and tell us what you do for a living? Michael>> Happy to be here....
20+ Rubyists to Follow on Quora
What’s Quora? Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The most important thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question.” Robert Scoble, in his article “Is Quora the biggest blogging...
How do I make a command-line tool in Ruby?
How do I make a command-line tool in Ruby? This guest post is by Allen Wei, who works as Senior Ruby On Rails Engineer for Seravia, in Beijing. He is very enthusiastic about Ruby. He started using Ruby after several years of using Java, .NET and never came back to them. When he has some...
The 5 Most Popular Articles of 2010 on RubyLearning
(Based on Twitter Re-tweets) The year 2010 saw RubyLearning’s awesome guest authors write and share their knowledge with others. If you missed any of these useful articles then here’s the roundup of the 5 most popular articles of 2010 on RubyLearning. Enjoy! Do You Enjoy Your Code Quality? James M. Schorr gives real-world tips on...
