Pat Shaughnessy's 'Ruby Under a Microscope' Now Available
It's a great time for indie books in the Ruby world lately and this is no exception. Pat's book is a truly deep dive into Ruby's internals with lots of diagrams and lucid explanations to help you along the way.
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…Xavier Noria (a Ruby Hero and Rails core contributor) faces Pat Shaughnessy for an interview about how he got started with Ruby and Rails, what's coming in Rails 4.0, and more.
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Ruby Microframeworks: Camping and …
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…into Engine Yard logs .
* Alex Sexton looks at how CDNs affect frontend performance .
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* And finally, an infographic that shows the stunning growth of OMGPOP's Draw Something application.
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Last week I had a great chat with Pat Shaughnessy about The Cucumber Book which has been published as an interview on RubySource . Pat really managed to get to the heart of my opinions about how to use Cucumber effectively, so if you're too busy to read the book, this will give you a good summary of my latest thinking on topics such as:
- why Cucumber is pointless unless you involve the whole team
- imperative vs declarative style, and why it matters
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…dependencies, making small changes, bundling, raking, committing.
At the end of the road I had a good series of commits spelling out exactly what was needed to get to my goal of a fully updated rails 3.2.2 environment.
If you run bundle outdated and all you see is: Outdated gems included in the bundle: * sprockets (2.4.0 > 2.1.2)
Then you are doing it right!
Have a cookie!
Read more about what's new with bundler 1.1 from Pat Shaughnessy.
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…and getting geared up for some fantastic events.
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Pat Shaughnessy shares another excerpt from his Ruby Under a Microscope book that digs deep into the world of blocks, lambdas, procs, and bindings and how they relate to closures.
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The latest excerpt from Pat Shaughnessy's forthcoming ' Ruby Under A Microscope' book. This time he looks at how MRI Ruby implements and stores objects and classes internally.
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Prolific Ruby blogger Pat Shaughnessy has been working on a new e-book about Ruby language and MRI internals. It's not finished yet but he's sharing a single preview chapter for free right now. Enjoy.
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…framework for executing feature documentation written in plain text in your BDD process. Pat Shaughnessy sits down with Matt Wynne, co-author of The Cucumber Book, to talk about the ideas behind Cucumber and its design.
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