24 May 2013

The Ruby Reflector

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Ruby

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By Peter Cooper of Ruby Inside over 2 years ago.
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…directly from rules defined using standard Ruby syntax ( Treetop has its own Ruby- esque grammar language). Parslet's error messages are also significantly nicer than Treetop's when you inevitably run into trouble with your grammar as they're generated by Parslet itself and don't spring from Treetop's internally generated code.

So if you need to build a parser (or think you might ), check out Parslet - it has a great homepage with some useful documentation. …

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 2 days ago.
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UnQLite - Embeddable NoSQL database engine.

LicenseFinder - Help your lawyers figure out how your gems are licensed. This stuff is, by the way, an utter mess in the ruby community.

"Confident Ruby" now in Beta! - New ebook from Avdi Grimm.

ish. - Responsive HTML design tool that throws random viewports at your code so you can see how it copes (or doesn't).

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By Adam of Transcending Frontiers over 2 years ago.
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…convention this weekend! @ CaseyF is the # Ruby # Rails guru behind @ Ravelry

Thanks to the following participants:

xfitzyx , davidahood , maybegenius , mariestroughter , jdunbar100 , karlbright , mariovisic , gnoll110 , tfg_dan , ByrneNick , keithpitt , MarkKithcart , davidjrice , imagemechanics , elithrar …

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By Adam of Transcending Frontiers over 2 years ago.
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…Locomotive? http://www.locomotivecms.com/ Awesome # ruby # rails CMS in early development.

@ davidahood : Just jumping in to # newwebfrontier twitter party from Melbourne ( Aust.) using tweetchat.com

@ hillaryhopper : @ xfitzyx Well @ dribbble is a great resource and brings the web design community together. Also gives me a lot of clients.

@ jammbox : just a quickie. Discovr is now # …

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By Chris Kelly of New Relic 3 days ago.
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We're hanging out in Denver this week and wanted to say ‘hi.' We'll be at Galvanize on Thursday from 2 - 6 pm where you can come and chat about all things New Relic, Ruby and Game of Thrones. Stop by to check out Galvanize, hang out with us or just grab a t-shirt. See you there!

Where: Galvanize - 1062 Delaware St Denver, CO

When: Thursday, May 23 from 2 - 6 pm

The post Denver ‘ Office Hours' on Thursday at Galvanize appeared …

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By Matt Swasey of Viget.com Blogs almost 4 years ago.
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The idea for Hackday was simple: provide a free-of-charge, guided discussion on Ruby- and Rails-related topics that was open to the community. Our first topic, ' Refactoring Rails Controllers,' was chosen in response to conversations that had taken place during previous Hacknight events.

At Viget we get to work with Ruby and Rails everyday with other developers doing the same thing. This generates tremendous growth within each of us in the development lab. However, there …

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…see why this occurs, we need to take a look at how objects work in JavaScript. Unlike Ruby, JavaScript has no concept of classes. Instead it constructs its objects using prototypes. If you're writing your code in CoffeeScript, you can almost always ignore this fact, and write your code as if you were in Ruby or Python. In this case, however, CoffeeScript is making our problem less apparent, so let's take a look at what this code looks like using plain JavaScript. function …

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By Matt Reider of Engine Yard Developer Blog over 2 years ago.
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Tweet the following: Learn # Ruby on # Rails with @ engineyard http://bit.ly/02ror # Ride4Ruby [distance] [your gist] Extra credit. Obviously, the distance your bike will be traveling is farther than the distance between the start and end points. Share Ruby code for calculating the shortest distance between all points, for an extra special prize, which will be announced next week after we look through the submissions.

Ready. Set. Go!

Note: Submissions are closed at midnight tomorrow …

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By Satish Talim of RubyLearning Blog 3 days ago.
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…of numerous technologies. The course topics would hopefully help those that have some knowledge of Ruby programming to get started with web programming (this does not cover Ruby on Rails).

Who's It For?

Anyone with some knowledge of Ruby programming .

Dates

The course starts on Saturday, 29th June 2013 and runs for 2 weeks.

Is the course really free?

A lot of effort and time goes into building such a course and we would really love that you pay at least US$ 15 for the …

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By Khan of Engine Yard Developer Blog over 2 years ago.
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Ruby Forum Ruby on Rails in StackOverflow RailsBridge RubyFlow Ruby Meetups IRC freenode channels: # ruby, # rubyonrails

If you want to take a class to learn more about Ruby on Rails, check out the next Zero to Rails 3 Class offered virtually January 24 to January 27, 2011.

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