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The Dark Ages of programming languages

over 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
We seem to be living in the dark ages of programming languages. I'm not saying this to bash everything; I'm actually being totally objective right now....

Dynamically adding instance methods for fun and profit

over 5 years ago by skwp on skwpspace.
Here’s an easy way to dynamically add methods to instances of an object for fun and profit. In this case, I had a collection of ‘taggings’...

What's New in Edge Rails: Around Filters are Here

over 5 years ago by Ryan Daigle on Ryan's Scraps.
I’ve mentioned the Meantime filter plugin by Roman Le Negrate in the past as a very useful little utility – apparently the core team agrees...

The difference between Kernel#` and Kernel#system

over 5 years ago by Ola Bini on Ola Bini on Java, Lisp, Ruby and AI.
Today I had a fun learning experience. It cost me several hours of work, so I will post a small notice about it here so Google can make other developers...

rubyonrails.fi is running

over 5 years ago by jarkko on jlaine.net - Home.
Finally, rubyonrails.fi has seen the light of day. It’s still pretty rudimentary, sporting the default Mephisto theme, but already has its first articles...

Directories, Sources, and Ruby

over 5 years ago by Alexander Panek on panicroom.
I was fiddling around with the server administration scripts again yesterday, and stumbled over Ruby's lack of a decent "ls"/"dir" (non-recursive source...

How To Deploy your first rails app to Dreamhost using Capistrano in Windows

over 5 years ago by TAD on RubyNoob.
Credit: This tutorial owes its existence to the wonderful Dreamhost/Capistrano wiki article. The primary thrust of this tutorial will be to help you...

Ruby on Windows: A Note for Microsoft

over 5 years ago by Austin Ziegler on halostatue.
Good evening. I have finally sat down to try to pull together the issues related to building Ruby with Visual Studio 8. I apologize for the lengthy delay...

vi mode in rails console

over 5 years ago by skwp on skwpspace.
Have you ever been frustrated by the poor command line editing in the rails console? It turns out you can easily turn on vi mode editing in the irb shell...

Using RedBox for modal dialogs

over 5 years ago by Brandon Keepers on opensoul.org.
When I first saw Lightbox, my first thought (ok, second thought; my first was “This is awesome!”) was: “This would be a great technique...