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How to Install Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0 on Ubuntu 10.10

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
For better or worse, Ubuntu has become one of the most popular Linux variants on which to deploy Ruby and Rails apps. It was used for 84% of the 2010 Rails...

The Heroku & IndexTank “Build A Search-Based Webapp” Holiday Challenge

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
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The Ruby Community’s Christmas Releases

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Christmas is a special time for Rubyists and not only for those of us taking the opportunity to get drunk and eat a lot. December 25 has been a popular...

Rubinius 1.2 Released: A Blog, Better Documentation and More of a Good Thing

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
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...

A Review of ‘The Rails 3 Way’ by Obie Fernandez

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
The Rails 3 Way is the much awaited, Rails 3-focused followup to The Rails Way, a popular Rails book (and, dare I say, bible) by Obie Fernandez. It features...

Cool.io: Node.js-style Event Driven Awesomeness for Rubyists

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Been missing esteemed rapper and author Coolio (real name Tony Arcieri) recently? He's been busy studying Ruby and building Cool.io (or GitHub repo), a...

Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
As 2010 comes to a close, I've dug through Ruby Inside archives to remind myself how far the Ruby scene has progressed over the year. Over the past couple...

MacRuby 0.8 Released (and 2 Forthcoming MacRuby Books)

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
MacRuby team lead and Apple employee Laurent Sansonetti has unveiled MacRuby 0.8, the latest release of the Ruby 1.9-compatible Mac-focused Ruby implementation...

PeepCode Releases The “Meet Rails 3″ Screencast Series

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ruby screencasting supremo Geoffrey Grosenbach has unveiled PeepCode's new Meet Rails 3 series. There are two parts so far, clocking in at 75 and 92 minutes...

How to Cure Net::HTTP’s Risky Default HTTPS Behavior

~1 year ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
James Golick, a prolific Canadian Rubyist, has declared war on Net:HTTP's default of not checking the validity of the certificate sent by an HTTP server...