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...

WebSockets are an exciting new HTML5 technology which has finally begun to pick up enough browser, server and library support to support much wider adoption, potentially driving a move towards a signf...

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A few months ago, Ethan brought up a great rule for tackling a new project: Identify the hardest parts—the problems you don’t immediately know how you’ll solve—and make it a point to accomplis...

<article> <header> Infinite sequences in ruby </header> One feature of harmonia is tasks that recur on a schedule, e.g. every Thursday, or on the 30th day of each mont...

Inspired by a post from Software by Rob [1] and in turn this Pixlin [2] post from 2007, I decided to give Mechanical Turk a whirl to help me come up with a product name. I'm going to talk about my exp...

A list of good blog posts about the going-ons and state of the Rails Community, mid-January edition

What is AngularJS? AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript framework. View on github: https://github.com/angular/angular.js It extends HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly...

In the olden days with our racks of Dell servers we used to have the luxury of the iDRAC card - Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (I often wondered what the acronym meant!) - other manufacturer...

*warning: plot spoilers below*. Imagine yourself in the trenches of WWI. The next chapter you're in Ancient Egypt, then in Troy. A little while later you've gone through the land of the bugs, dark/twi...

Designing slides is a key part of making a presentation engaging. Having great, interesting content is obviously very important but the way it is presented can turn a lecture into entertainment. Let...

It’s been a little while that I have decided to always extract my gem binaries into my rails application “bin” path. That way, I always execute binaries by specifying the relative path. For exam...

Creating simple websites is not a challenge no more. Prior to modern CMS and PSD to HTML conversion services, people had to study programming, HTML and CSS. The table layout was widely spread and it w...

While tinkering recently on a hobby project, I kept having ‘freezing’ issues. Sure I tried to error handle the bah-jeezus out of it in order to fail gracefully instead of forever hanging, but for ...

I'm leaving here a curated compilation of interesting links where you will find information that is not very well known. There are pull requests, issues, commits, examples, posts, videos and more abou...

Ruby has, at its root, an Object. Methods available in Object are available to every class because every class in Ruby inherits from Object somewhere in its own class hierarchy. Of course, you can ove...