Last Tuesday I spoke at the Boston Ruby Group about strengthening your JavaScript skills. I’ve put the slides online. Enjoy!
Archive for the ‘ruby’ Category
Sanely Updating Your Gems
May 27th, 2011
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If you followed my advice in the previous post, your Gemfile would look something like this:
source :rubygems gem 'rails', '3.0.3' gem 'devise', '1.1.5' gem 'redgreen', '1.2.2' gem 'capybara', '0.4.0'
There’s nothing wrong with this except that if you wanted to keep your gems up to date frequently it would be tedious to manually change all of these versions. Fortunately, we don’t always have to be this exact with the version numbers.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Managing Gem Versions
May 27th, 2011
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If the Ruby code you write never leaves your computer, then this article is not for you. But if you find yourself sharing Ruby code with others, or deploying your Ruby code to a web server, then you have a problem. And that problem is gem versions. Sooner or later, the version of a gem on your computer will not match the version of that gem on your production web server, and your cute little disruptive social media web app will fail in a steaming pile of 500 errors.
Introducing Tabulous: Tabs in Rails
March 2nd, 2011
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If you’re like me, most of the Rails applications you’ve written use tabbed navigation. And if you’re like me, you find that writing the code to handle tabs becomes increasingly more boring with each new application. So I wrote tabulous. Tabulous aims to solve this problem once and for all with a quick and easy way to set up and manage your tabs.
Rack::Plastic Helps You Write Rack Middleware
July 18th, 2010
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Back in November I participated in the CodeRack Rack middleware contest. Besides submitting entries that were stupid and downright dangerous I actually managed to create some middleware of value.
Rails 3 Online Conference Word Cloud
February 18th, 2010
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I used Wordle to create a word cloud from the chat transcript of the Exploring Rails 3 online conference.
Installing Rails 3 Beta with RVM and Ruby 1.8.7
February 7th, 2010
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Jeremy McAnally posted some great instructions on installing Rails 3 beta. When I tried to install Rails 3 it complained that my Ruby version needed to be at least 1.8.7. Fair enough, I only had 1.8.6, and it was about time I upgraded.
Getting Mugged by Nokogiri
December 8th, 2009
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Once you’ve gotten started with Nokogiri, you’ll expect everything to be as easy as the beginning, and then–BAM!–you’ll get sucker-punched.
Getting Started with Nokogiri
December 8th, 2009
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Nokogiri is a Ruby document parser that was released in October 2008. It’s great for reading, searching, editing, and otherwise mucking around with HTML (and XML).
