…you'll find posts on new trends and technologies, code snippets, industry news, and a lot of Ruby-related goodness.
We are constantly exploring the marketing aspects of the web, and this is the home of our ruminations. Posts in this section will illustrate ways to capitalize on new methods to market your website or yourself on the web.
Are you a MetaFan? One of the best parts of a company blog are the conversations that spark up between …
…Codeulate all sell Ruby-related screencasts; Rubyists selling Ruby-related ebooks include Jeremy McAnally , former Rails Activist Mike Gunderloy , Marc-André Cournoyer , the husband-and-wife team of Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy , and, if you go back as far as 2006, DHH himself, and 37Signals as a whole (who made $ 120,000 in one month selling a PDF off their blog, and in the process sparked a debate with Tim O'Reilly …
- Giles Bowkett: Internet Marketing Video, Version 2
- Rails Inside: Baltimore Welcomes RailsConf With Open Arms
- Transcending Frontiers: The Frontier Group sponsors the Ruby Summer of Code
- Zen and the Art of Programming: Upgrading to Rails 3
- Giles Bowkett: Help Wanted: Rails Volunteer Work
- RailsBridge News: Do One Thing for Rails 3 on January 16th and 17th
…Ryan Norbauer is selling his RubyRags.com , Ruby-related clothing site. In the last 2 years, it's taken in about $16K and fulfilment, etc, is handled by a third party. There's more information relating to the sale.
Phashion: A " Perceptual Hash" Library Wrapper
Phashion is a Ruby wrapper around the open source pHash library that provides "perceptual hashing" functionality. What's a perceptual hash? Well: …
- the evolving ultrasaurus: jruby on google app engine
- SKORKS: Merging Ruby Hashes And Bang Method Usage
- Riding Rails - home: Rails and the Enterprise
- casperfabricius.com: The culture of development communities: Ruby vs. .NET
- Adventures with Ruby: Qu'est-ce que c'est Rubyesque?
- No Strings Attached: Grepping with Ruby
…attendees — presenters and audiences — to socialize in an informal environment and talk anything, Ruby-related or otherwise, with their peers.
Free pizza and soda! It may sound silly, but is surprisingly effective. Our meetings start at 7pm, which means many attendees come straight from work and are hungry. Prior to the first presentation, the boxes of piping-hot Domino's pizza and cold soda at the back of the room serve as a place for attendees to congregate and chat, instead of …
- format internet:: Speaking at EuRuKo 2009
- RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: Fair Distribution (#6)
…link . Tickets are $ 5, and all proceeds after expenses will benefit a Ruby-related charity or project (if you would like to suggest a charity please email mike@subelsky.com).
We're looking for a wide range of talks, which you can propose here . Not all of the talks will be Rails-specific but all will be of interest to Rails developers. (One ideal talk would be a version of Geoffrey Grosenbach's recent What Pythonistas Think of Ruby post). You …
- igvita.com: Distributed Ruby with the MagLev VM
- Home - Leading Ruby on Rails Development and Consulting firm in India - Vinsol: Why RailsConf at Las Vegas is a great opportunity for the community ?
- Journal: Solving PO translation conflicts
- Edd Dumbill's Weblog: Behind the Times: Speaking about Chef at RailsConf
- Developing with Style: Whats new in Cake 1.2: Routing and Config
- Locomotivation: Mulling Over Our Ruby on Rails Full Text Search Options
Marsee Henon and Heather Fox who make all the Ruby-related books available to RubyLearning.
Note: In case I have missed out someone then I am completely responsible!
Who are you thankful for?
Who in the Ruby community are you thankful for this year? Why not drop a comment here and send a tweet to let them know?
Hat Tip : Wynn Netherland
- RubyFlow - Search for jruby: [ANN] Do YOU want to learn JRuby using Google Wave?
- has_many :bugs, :through => :rails - Home: Railssummit Slides
Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies
RPCFN: Ruby**Fun (#4)
By Michael Kohl
About Michael Kohl
Michael Kohl ( Twitter / blog ) in his day job, works as an IT systems engineer in Vienna, Austria. He fell in love with Ruby in 2003 or so, maintained various Ruby-related packages for Gentoo Linux from 2004-2006 and started being an assistant teacher for RubyLearning.org in early 2009. Besides all things Ruby his interests include …
- RubyLearning Blog: Aleksey Gureiev Winner RPCFN #4
- RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: Mazes (#5)
…raised as to why one of our developers, David , always seems to be wearing Ruby-related shirts. The answer is because we Rubyists put on a lot (and I mean a lot ) of regional Ruby conferences. The Python crowd, it seems, only have PyCon and DjangoCon , the latter of which Labs member James is headed to next week.
So we Rubyists love to organize ourselves and get together, that's certain. …
- Heroku: Europe Here We Come
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Learning Ruby
- oldmoe: Ruby Strikes Back
- Litany Against Fear: Ruby: Fragile or Agile? Notes
- Ruby Best Practices: "And your Mom, too." Ruby-talk best practices.
- Viget Extend : The Development Lab: Coming Soon: The NoSQL Series
…also good place to toss out ideas, conjecture about the future of Ruby, and have general Ruby-related discussions.
There are, however, right and wrong ways to go about this. The canonical source for what is termed " Netiquette" is Internet Engineering Task Force RFC 1855 .
You should read it. However, it's somewhat lengthy, and some aspects dated. Here, I'd like to focus on a few key items as they relate to Ruby and ruby-talk.
RFC 1855 in a Nutshell …
- Programblings: Do not learn Ruby
- Headius: Stand and Be Counted
- oldmoe: Ruby Strikes Back
- Practical Ruby: A Ruby Metaprogramming Introduction
- zerosum dirt(nap) - Home: Serious Bizness
- Developing with Style: 10 Reasons why Ruby is better than PHP - Reason #2
…past couple months:
Kenai added git support
We realized that we'd get more Rubyists contributing if we had a mirror on Github
We became more comfortable with Git
Ultimately, the move to Git mostly came down to politics: Rubyists like Git better, and we're a Ruby-related project. Had we been Jython, we'd probably have chosen Mercurial.
Enjoy!
- without_scope - Home: Gitacular!
- blog.mhartl | Michael Hartl's tech blog: Mass assignment in Rails applications
- Litany Against Fear: Professional Ruby Conference Notes
- Rails on the Run - Home: Googlecharts featured on Github
- Junior developer: Browsing git repositories on RubyForge
- Developing with Style: CakePHP plugins that love Git