rbenv is a new lightweight Ruby version management tool built by Sam Stephenson (of 37signals and Prototype.js fame).
The established leader in the Ruby version management scene is RVM but rbenv is an interesting alternative if you want...
rbenv: A Simple, New Ruby Version Management Tool
Watchr – More Than An Automated Test Runner
Watchr is a development tool that monitors a directory tree and triggers a user defined action (in Ruby) whenever an observed file is modified. Its most typical use is continuous testing, and as such it is a more flexible alternative...
Watchr – More Than An Automated Test Runner
Watchr is a development tool that monitors a directory tree and triggers a user defined action (in Ruby) whenever an observed file is modified. Its most typical use is continuous testing, and as such it is a more flexible alternative...
RubyGems 1.5.0 Released: Now Supports Ruby 1.9.2
Ryan Davis has announced the release of RubyGems 1.5.0. It comes just a month after the release of 1.4 which, notoriously, didn't work with Ruby 1.9.2. These problems have now all been ironed out and Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 users alike can safely upgrade (fingers crossed).
RubyGems is...
Rails Ready: Ruby and Rails on Ubuntu in One Line
Rails Ready is essentially just a shell script but one you might find useful if you're running Ubuntu (or - update - CentOS) and want to get the installation process done and over as quickly as possible. It follows on rather nicely to our last post: Ruby Installer: Ruby and Rails on Windows...
Parslet – A Simple PEG Parser Framework for Ruby
Parslet is a new "simple parser framework" for Ruby built by Kaspar Schiess. It follows the PEG (parsing expression grammar) style of parsing and its primary goals are to be simple, testable, and to have extensive and powerful error reporting features (something that...
RubyMine 3.0 Released: An Improved Ruby and Rails 3.0 IDE
JetBrains (of IntelliJ IDEA fame) has today released RubyMine 3.0, the latest version of its cross-platform Ruby and Rails IDE. It follows on almost 18 months to the day from RubyMine 1.0. Back then we noted that the public reception of RubyMine was strong...
The 3 Step Guide to Slick Local Documentation for all your Ruby Gems
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about RubyDoc.info, a "good looking, up-to-date Ruby documentation" site powered by YARD. Well, as of YARD 0.6 you can get the same greatness that RubyDoc.info provides applied to your local machine's collection of gems in just a few steps. Try it out - you won't regret...
Pusher: WebSocket-powered Realtime Browser Push Service for Rubyists
Pusher is a new Web service from New Bamboo that makes it easy to push data to users of your web applications "live", outside of the request response cycle. They've embraced Web Sockets technology and built a REST API to which you can post events. Its flexible...
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,...
Visually Inspect Ruby Object Models with DrX
When you want to inspect your objects in Ruby, Object#inspect, p, or awesome_print are all valuable. You're stuck with plain-text, though, and primarily designed to look at object data rather than object models. If you want to drill down into parent classes, see object and class relationships, etc, then,...
