Attended an information sharing session this morning. One problem stood up. The person conducting the session is a bad presenter, not very fluent in English, and speaks with very heavy accent. Most of...

Send to Kindle Programming the Web with Ruby Registrations are now open for RubyLearning’s “Pay if you like”, online course on “Programming the Web with Ruby“. The first batch had over 2000 ...

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This is the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2013-05-19 19:58:50 GMTWhat do `def +@` and `def -@` mean? - [10/1]How is...

From the second we are born we are collecting a wealth of knowledge about the world. This knowledge is accumulated and interrelated inside our brains and it represents what we know. If we could export...

Vi siete mai chiesti se vi sono delle cose che fanno davvero la differenza? Se vi sono cose che possono avere un impatto davvero positivo nella vostra vita? Delle cose che vale la pena fare? Spesso ...

So lately I haven’t been doing much rails, which has lead to a distinct silence on this site as far as new developments go. The truth is, my career has changed a bit and I find myself more and more ...

As you may already know Sinatra is a great Ruby framework for building small web apps and APIs. Although it's very different to Ruby on Rails, there are sometimes cases where the choice of which frame...

What’s the problem? As a developer, you’ll work on hundreds of different projects in your career. The biggest pain in the ass when changing projects is having to get started in a new development e...

On April 29, I gave a talk entitled “Humanity on Rails” at RailsConf 2013 in Portland, OR. The talk was a brief introduction to the philosophy of technology, targeted toward the Ruby and Rails dev...

Sometimes we would like to dump all the MySQL databases. MySQL provides an easy solution to this problem: However this will dump stuff into one file. How to dump all databses into separate files? Well...

Welcome to this week’s roundup of Ruby news, articles, videos, and more, cobbled together from my e-mail newsletter, Ruby Weekly. Sorry these roundups have been missing for a couple of months, I've ...

This post originally appeared on the DevMynd blog. The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information...

The reason it's been so quiet around here this month is that I've been crazy busy in my main hobby due to our major event for the year (run by our local group). Rowany Festival is the largest Mediev...

A few months ago we invited the Ruby on Rails community to participate in our hosting survey. We’ve since published the results and created an infographic. To learn more, check out the Rails Hos...

home rdoc bugs RDoc produces HTML and command-line documentation for Ruby projects. RDoc includes the +rdoc+ and +ri+ tools for generating and displaying documentation from the command-line. Cha...

I spent a long week grappling with text encoding. Please enjoy the fruit of my labors: A programmer walks into a coffee shop.Programmer: “Do you serve cortados here?”Barista: “No—wrong c...