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How to Get A Mac-esque Rails Development Environment on Windows

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ben Kittrell has written a guide to creating a Mac-esque Rails / Ruby development environment on Windows. As he says: I like Windows and I love Vista. ...

My book, "Beginning Ruby", published today!

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside. [Linked from: Ruby on Rails Podcast, Ruby on Rails Podcast, Ruby on Rails Podcast]
My book, "Beginning Ruby", was released today and is ready to buy (and read!) immediately in print and e-book forms. Beginning Ruby is a complete beginner...

CruiseControl.rb: Continuous Integration for Ruby (and Rails)

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
CruiseControl.rb is a continuous integration tool written in, and for, Ruby. It makes it easy to set up automated builds of your software and to find out...

New release of Hobo: The rapid Web application builder for Rails

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Just over two months ago I posted about a new rapid Web application development framework for Rails called Hobo. The team have now let me know they've got...

reclambda: A recursive lambda function

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Hampton Catlin, with a little inspiration from Nathan Weizenbaum, has come up with a few cute ways to create recursive lambdas (that is, anonymous functions...

Presentation: Why Ruby On Rails?

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
"Why Ruby On Rails?" was a presentation made by Gregg Pollack at the Orlando Ruby Users Group on March 15, and now you can watch it online. Gregg is a great...

Build Offline Rails Applications with Joyent Slingshot

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Joyent Slingshot is a new technology developed by Joyent and Magnetk that provides a Windows and OS X client for specially designed Rails applications....

Build a Feed Reader in 26 Lines of Ruby

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Ever thought that parsing feeds was a complex task? Not in Ruby! Using the Feed Normalizer library (a wrapper for other feed processing libraries), Ilya...

7 Cool New Ruby Snippets

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
I've stumbled across several great snippets of Ruby code on the Web in the past few weeks, and rather than bore you with a post on each one, here's a whole...

Haml 1.5 Released

almost 5 years ago by Peter Cooper on Ruby Inside.
Back in September 2006, I posted about a new markup language for Rails templates called Haml. For those who missed it, Haml is a high-level, semantic language...