…rubylearning.org Thanks a lot Victor and Satish and all the other Rubyists who gave us today's Ruby."
What's Ruby?
According to http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ - "Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. Ruby's elegant syntax is natural to read and easy to write."
Yukihiro Matsumoto , the creator of Ruby, in an interview says -
I believe people want to express themselves when …
- Mike Clark: See You At RubyConf!
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Learn Ruby, Rails, and more in Boston through Skillshare
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1073
- Matthew Bass: RubyConf 2012 recap
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Phusion Passenger 4.0 beta 1 is here
- Headius: Refining Ruby
…you can see, it gives the parameters passed in more meaning during the method invocation. Now most Rubyists won't call methods with "magic numbers/strings" and you can achieve the same thing in < Ruby 2.0 by accepting a hash but I think this is a nice little addition.
Next I'd like to discuss generating and organizing views. MVC in iOS is a little different from MVC in Ruby on Rails, in that views are a little more tightly coupled to the controller. View elements …
- Signal vs. Noise: Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion
- Merbist: MacRuby on iOS - RubyMotion review
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #987
- Global Nerdy: Mobile Development News Roundup for Tuesday, May 22, 2012
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Laurent Sansonetti of RubyMotion fame to speak at BubbleConf 2012
- Fingertips: Functional View and Controller testing with RubyMotion
The land of Vegemite, drop bears, and the Thunderdome is bursting at the seams with Rubyists. And they descended upon Melbourne, Australia last week to take part in the inaugural RubyConf AU . The three-day conference included in-depth workshops, hilarious keynotes and insightful sessions covering the wide spectrum of software development with Ruby. In fact, Australia loves Ruby so much that they named a koala after it.
Corey Haines kicked off the conference with …
- Freelancing Gods: Funconf
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: More Affordable International Data
- SKORKS: Even Boring Form Data Can Be Interesting (For A Developer)
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Engine Yard Cloud in Australia - Solving the Speed of Light Problem
- Jerrett Taylor: BC Single Transferable Vote (BC-STV)
- Global Nerdy: Mobile Developer News Roundup: The Amazing iOS 6 Maps, iPhone 5 Lines, Why You Should be an iOS Developer and the iOS 6 Feast
…Rails 4 beta , which is threadsafe by default, it's becoming increasingly clear that Rubyists care about concurrency.
Unicorn gives us the ability to take multiple requests at a time, but it is by no means the only option when it comes to concurrent Rack servers. Another popular alternative is Puma which uses threads instead of forking processes. Puma does however require that your code is threadsafe .
If you've never run a concurrent server in production, …
- Mislav's blog: Understanding binstubs
- Mike Perham: 12 Gems of Christmas #11 - statsd-ruby
- Trevor Turk: Weekly Digest, 10-12-09
- Phusion Corporate Blog: The Road to Passenger 3: Technology Preview 3 - Closing the gap between development and production & rethinking the word "easy"
- Codeshooter's Weblog: Deployment Recipes - Deploying, monitoring and securing your Rails application to a clean Ubuntu 10.04 install using Nginx and U
- Diego Carrion: Summary of new features in Inploy
Lots of new releases to report this morning. I guess this is what Rubyists do on the weekend.
Ruby 2.0.0-p0 is released - The big one, the first stable Ruby 2.0 release. Pretty safe to say Ruby 1.8 is dead now.
RubyGems 2.0.0 Released - You probably want to switch if you're moving to Ruby 2.0. Don't forget to grab a prerelease copy of Bundler 1.3.0 at the same time.
rdoc 4.0.0 - Supporting the display of pages (such as readme files) and Markdown formatting.
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Rails Rumble Dates, Active Admin 0.5, Protected Methods in Ruby 2.0
- Katz Got Your Tongue?: August Tokaido Update
- Headius: Refining Ruby
- 4 Lines of Code: Fundamental attribution error of programming
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Why Rails 4 Live Streaming is a big deal
- New Relic: Recap of RubyConf 2012
…features: a collection of techniques and tricks known as metaprogramming . Once the domain of expert Rubyists, metaprogramming is now accessible to programmers of all levels - from beginner to expert.
Paolo goes on to say the following in a recent interview :
I realized that metaprogramming sits at the very heart of the language, and when you understand metaprogramming , that's the moment you start "thinking in Ruby".
Who's It For?
You need some background …
- Viget.com Blogs: (re)-Introducing simple_importer
…JavaScript culture at large. These seem, to me, to be the major complaints which prominent Rubyists have leveled against JavaScript. I consider both these complaints legitimate, but in the year 2013, I have to call it both provincial and backwards to continue remaining ignorant of these solutions. Criticizing Node.js, without understanding the many ways you can use it, does not seem to me to constitute any useful kind of conversation.
If you're snobbish about JavaScript, I can understand. …
- Andrzej on Software: Is CoffeeScript better than Ruby?
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 377 - Least necessary person
- Ruby Inside: The Mega Ruby News and Release Roundup for May 2012
- New Relic: Community News: Reflections on RailsConf and More
- Global Nerdy: FizzBuzz Still Works
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #910
…gave a talk about designing for web applications, Andre Arko showed how Rubyists use Rubygems to take advantage of other people's code, Jina Bolton presented Sass 101, and Julie Ann Horvath proved that hacking design directly in the browser is way better than using Photoshop. If learning Ruby and Rails wasn't enough for information overload, then surely this whirlwind tour through the rest of the application stack would have done it. But …
- Plataformatec Blog: Eager loading for greater good
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1033
- Heroku: Sunsetting the Argent Aspen Stack
- Ruby Inside: This Week in Ruby: Rubinius 2.0-rc1, Rake 10, Refactoring video, Passenger 4.0 supports JRuby, and more
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This Week in Open Source
- Giles Bowkett: A Simple Protocol For "You Are Not Your Code"
…Tanner [ Salt Lake City, Utah]
Last but not least..
Come Speak at O'Reilly Fluent 2013
OK, it's slightly offtopic but I'm the co-chair for O'Reilly's JavaScript, HTML5 and browser technology event and I know many Rubyists are also involved in these areas. Our CFP is open until December 10 and we have lots of awesome stuff lined up.
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #1008
- Riding Rails - home: Rails Has Great Documentation
- Transcending Frontiers: Guest Series: Peter Cooper - Capybara-WebKit: Bringing WebKit to your integration tests
- Viget.com Blogs: Rails Admin Interface Generators
- A Rubyist Railstastic Adventure: Introducing the Rails API Project
- Giles Bowkett: Underpromoting Information Products For Fun And Profit
Ready to roll this week up and put it in the closet.
dmca - GitHub's archive of DMCA takedown notices.
Announcing HashiCorp - Commercial support for Vagrant.
Refinements and nested methods - The more this addition to Ruby 2.0 gets discussed, the more it strikes me as a Bad Idea. It's complicated, it has edge cases even the designers don't understand, and it appears to be trying to fix a problem that doesn't really bother most rubyists.
- WyeWorks Blog - The Team's Voice: Ruby Refinements landed in trunk