3 New Date and Time Libraries for Rubyists
In the UK there's a cliché that goes: "You wait hours for a bus, and then three come along at once!" So it went with these three Ruby date and time libraries. They all made an appearance on RubyFlow last week and are all useful in their own ways,...
Building A Well Formed Number Handling Class From Scratch
Over on the Ruby Best Practices blog, 
Robert Klemme walks through the process of building a new numeric class from scratch in Ruby - taking into account all the gotchas and considerations that pop up along the way. Robert's task is harder and more involved...
Ruby Quicktips: A Tumblelog of Quick Ruby Tips
Ruby Quicktips is a Tumblr-powered tumblelog (think of a blog but in bite-sized chunks) by Daniel Pietzsch that presents a growing array of Ruby related tips and interesting code snippets. Daniel seems keen for you to contribute, and you can do so on its submissions page. There's...
Ruby Version Manager: Easily Use Multiple Ruby Versions At Once
Ruby Version Manager GitHub repo (a.k.a. RVM) makes it ridiculously easy to install and switch between multiple Ruby versions on OS X and Linux. Over the last 24 hours, I've been playing with RVM and talking to creator Wayne Seguin and have been blown away...
Turbocharge Your Ruby Testing with Parallel Specs
In Make Your Test Suite UNCOMFORTABLY FAST! (called "the best blog post ever written" by one commenter) Jason Morrison of Thoughtbot demonstrates how to use Michael Grosser's Parallel Specs project to speed up your Ruby tests.
Parallel Specs provides a set of Rake tasks to run...
