RPCFN: The Game of Life (#11)
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies RPCFN: The Game of Life (#11) By Elise Huard About Elise Huard Elise Huard is based in Brussels, Belgium and is the owner of Jabberwocky, a solutions company mostly focused on Rails. She has worked with a few other technologies before falling in love with Rails and Ruby about 3...
RPCFN: Business Hours (#10)
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies RPCFN: Business Hours (#10) By Ryan Bates About Ryan Bates Ryan Bates has been involved in web development since 1998. In 2005 he started working professionally with Ruby and Rails and is now best known for his work on Railscasts, the free Ruby on Rails screencast series. Ryan has this...
RPCFN: Interactive Fiction (#9)
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Interactive Fiction (#9)
By Avdi Grimm
About Avdi Grimm
Avdi Grimm is a husband, father, software cultivator living in southern Pennsylvania, USA. He has been been working with the Ruby language for almost ten years, and is still finding new reasons to love it. He is the author of NullDB, Hammertime, AlterEgo, HookR...
A Free Course on Sinatra
A Free Course on Sinatra
To celebrate the release of Sinatra 1.0 RubyLearning announces the first-ever, free online “Introduction to Sinatra” course starting from 15th May 2010.
Sinatra – quickly create tiny web apps and services
What’s Sinatra?
Sinatra is a micro-framework for quickly creating tiny web-applications and small services in Ruby. It is not a Model-View-Controller (MVC) based...
RPCFN: XML Transformer (#8)
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: XML Transformer (#8)
By Jamie van Dyke
About Jamie van Dyke
Jamie van Dyke has been using Ruby and Rails since the beginning of 2005, has contributed significantly to the Rails documentation and code base, as well as running his own Rails business and being responsible for building Engine Yard’s European support team....
RPCFN: Broadsides (#7)
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Broadsides (#7)
By James Edward Gray II
About James Edward Gray II
James Edward Gray II was called into the principal’s office in high school for writing a black jack program on his calculator and beaming it to all the math students almost 20 years ago. He’s been tinkering with little code challenges...
RPCFN: Fair Distribution (#6)
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Fair Distribution (#6)
By John Trupiano
About John Trupiano
John Trupiano (twitter) is the co-founder of SmartLogic, the premiere Ruby development team in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an active member in the technology and business communities in the mid-Atlantic region. He is highly involved with the local Ruby user group (Bmore on...
RPCFN: Mazes (#5)
RubyLearning wishes all its readers and their friends and families a happy, healthy 2010. Thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement this year. It’s been a fun and rewarding year and we do appreciate all that you contribute to this site.
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Mazes (#5)
By Peter Cooper
About Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper (twitter) is...
Ruby eBook Sale Proceeds for HelpAge India – Will You Join Me?
Today when I logged onto my computer a Calendar notification popped up at me telling me that it has been 4 wonderful years of Ruby programming for me. Time flies when you’re having fun!
So how does one celebrate a Ruby birthday?
Ruby has given a lot to me. It’s helped me meet some great people, it’s...
Happynerds – Programming Links for Kids
Happynerds – Programming Links for Kids
A guest post by Michael Kohl.
For quite some time I was planning to create an online resource of programming tools for kids, because I think developing software is a beautiful and rewarding experience which is a perfect fit for children’s natural curiosity. Alas time is always short, so up until...
RPCFN: Ruby**Fun (#4)
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Ruby**Fun (#4)
By Michael Kohl
About Michael Kohl
Michael Kohl (Twitter / blog) in his day job, works as an IT systems engineer in Vienna, Austria. He fell in love with Ruby in 2003 or so, maintained various Ruby-related packages for Gentoo Linux from 2004-2006 and started being an assistant teacher for RubyLearning.org...
