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Building an iPhone Web app in under 50 lines with Sinatra and iUI - A comprehensive walkthrough of developing an iPhone friendly Web application based on Sinatra. Even if developing an iPhone app doesn't interest you much, this tutorial is so well written that it could act as a good i...
RubyScript? (Or, running Ruby scripts in the browser) By Peter Cooper / April 17, 2007 Dion Almaer has a go at implementing a basic Ruby scripting system for Web pages (or, as I call it, "RubyScript"). If you want to play with it, there's a live demo available here . Despite the slown...
Scotland On Rails Presentations Now Online: 27 Awesome Videos By Matthew Lang / May 23, 2009 Did you miss the Scotland on Rails conference this year? No need to fret though, as Engine Yard are hosting videos of all the presentations made at this popular conference. With 27 presentatio...
If you haven't got tab-completion and syntax coloring in your irb , you owe it to yourself to follow these instructions right away (should work for Linux, OS X, and Cygwin users). First, install the Wirble gem: sudo gem install -y wirble Next, create or edit a file called .irbrc in yo...
Three months on from the 1.1 release, Rubinius 1.2 has hit the streets bringing together 242 commits from 10 developers. As well as the typical bugfixes and performance tweaks that come with any implementation update, 1.2 brings some underlying structural changes that set up the path ...
awesome_print is a Ruby tool that provides "pretty printing" support for your objects. It's a bit like p , pp or, if you prefer, puts obj.inspect , but with significantly improved, contextual, colored output. Its creator and maintainer is Michael Dvorkin of Fat Free CRM fame. Being ab...
There is a big difference between a quick hack and a well tested patch worthy of a pull request. In a perfect world everyone would have the time and knowledge to contribute back every change they need, but I accept that this is not often the case. This technique deliberately has a low...
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone except those who, well, could have written a similar book themselves. The short punchy chapters make it a delight to read and gives the option of reading it merely 10 minutes at a time before bed or similar. The short chapters also make i...