Ruby Metaprogramming. A study & exercise based tutorial on ruby metaprogramming. Seems like a nice idea, and well produced.
Ruby Metaprogramming. A study & exercise based tutorial on ruby metaprogramming. Seems like a nice idea, and well produced.
This Book Is Made (Of Rabbits And Lemonade). The ruby programmer, artist, musician & surrealist _whytheluckystiff appears to have deleted his entire online presence. To play him out, here's a beautiful song he wrote.
HTTParty by John Nunemaker. Seeing the name of this ruby gem popping up all over. Wrap HTTParty in a class for an incredibly short, quick-start web service API library (and the examples included look they cover all my current requirements. Sold!)
MacRuby. A new competitor for the RubyCocoa bridge, directly from Apple. Tighter integration leading to better performance, and named arguments allowing for more natural translations of method names. Looks genuinely useful.
Textpow + Ultraviolet: TextMate Powered Syntax Highlighting. Looks like this is what I've been looking for in terms of a ruby-based equivalent to python's pygments. Shame it's not so self-contained though: Texmate bundles + Oniguruma + Textpow + Ultraviolet + a dollop of glue code in Rails. Whew!
Thin - yet another web server. Combines the Mongrel parser, Event Machine & chneukirchen's Rack. Looks interesting, but could be misleading. The performance graph has no numbers and an unmarked axis, and a comment at Ruby Inside suggests it needs a bit more work. One to keep an eye on.
Softies on Rails: Freezing Your Rails Application. I haven't needed this so far but it crossed my mind today that version conflicts are likely to become and issue for me fairly soon. This looks like a good walkthrough for when they do.
JRuby: An Introduction. There's been plenty of mentions of the potential for speed gains, but here's a short walk through what's possible when Java and Ruby are on good speaking terms.
Practical Ruby Gems. Digression in the comments of this /. book review on "what's wrong with Ruby", wonder if these complaints are still valid?
Slash7 with Amy Hoy - Secrets of the Rails Console Ninjas. Nice clear roundup of things you can do with script/console
Rails Envy: Ruby on Rails Rake Tutorial (aka. How rake turned me into an alcoholic). Basic tutorial on using Rake, with a sprinkling of historical background.
Erubis. Faster, auto-sanitizing implementation of eRuby, usable with Rails via ActionView::Base::registertemplatehandler.
worldofresources.pdf (application/pdf Object). DHH on mapping POST, GET, PUT, DELETE to CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE. Slides from the rubyconf2006 presentation.
David Heinemeier Hansson RailsConf 2006 Keynote Address. DHH on mapping POST, GET, PUT, DELETE to CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE. Video of the rubyconf2006 presentation.
Ruby Hacking Guide. The nuts and bolts of how the Ruby language is cobbled together
eigenclass - Changes in Ruby 1.9. Examples and explanation for the coming changes in Ruby.
Ruby Quiz. Good incentive to learn some raw ruby without the rails attached
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