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This Week’s Ruby News: awesome_print 1.0, a new Sinatra book, and more

2 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Welcome to this week's Web-based syndication of Ruby Weekly - it's bumper sized this week. And a big congratulations to David Heinemeier Hansson, creator...

Last Week’s Top Ruby News: Rails 3.1.3, autoload deprecated, and conferences

2 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
It's a couple of days late but here are the main headlines from the last week of Ruby news. We have a couple of Rails releases, some event news, and the...

This Week’s Ruby News: RSpec 2.8.0 RC1, Minitest 2.8.0, and What’s New in Bundler 1.1?

3 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
After last week's bumper set of releases the Ruby world seems a lot quieter this week :-) (Even here. I've been hidden away teaching my Ruby Reloaded course...

Ruby’s Unary Operators and How to Define Their Functionality

3 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
In math, a unary operation is an operation with a single input. In Ruby, a unary operator is an operator which only takes a single 'argument' in the form...

The Ruby Standard Library To Be Converted to Gems for Ruby 2.0?

3 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
The Ruby standard library (a.k.a. stdlib) is a collection of Ruby libraries that, at one time or another, have been considered useful enough to include...

This Week’s Ruby News: Ruby 1.9.3p0, OmniAuth 1.0, MagLev 1.0 and More

3 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
The rapid descent of the weather towards winter is getting people to stay in and code and long may it continue given the quality of this week's releases...

Screencast: Coding Conway’s Game of Life in Ruby the TDD Way with RSpec

3 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Recently, there have been many screencasts of people coding things in real time. Yesterday, Ryan Bigg released a video of him implementing Conway's Game...

This Week’s Top Ruby News: JRuby 1.6.5, A New Prag Prog Book, Fast Specs, Rails Style Guide and More

3 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
This week brings us a new JRuby release, some Ruby 2.0 news (but you knew that already, right? ;-)) and a new BDD library that seems to have struck a chord...

Ruby 2.0 Release Schedule Announced: Roll on 2013!

3 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Today, Yusuke Endoh posted to the ruby-core mailing list noting that matz has admitted him as a Ruby 2.0 "release manager" and as part of his work, he...

Ruby 2.0 Implementation Work Begins: What is Ruby 2.0 and What’s New?

4 months ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
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