November 19, 2008 – 3:19 pm
This post is a follow up to Ruby beanstalkd basics, I will try to make the example code little more interesting and useful. I am calling this is a Ruby beanstalkd intermediate write up, it sets up a few workers and distributes and receives results simultaneously. In this example the code resembles real code a [...]
October 3, 2008 – 10:25 am
I collected all of the Ruby tools posts I made this week into a single roundup. You can quickly jump to any tool that interests you or read my reviews start to finish. If you just want to read a individual section here are the previous posts Ruby Code Quality Tools, Ruby Test Quality Tools, [...]
October 1, 2008 – 10:04 pm
This is the third post in my series of Ruby tools articles. This time I look at Ruby code quality tools. Rubyists like Ruby because the code can look so nice, simple, and sometimes beautiful. Unfortunately not all code is so great, in fact often the code I write doesn’t look good. Fortunately while a [...]
September 30, 2008 – 9:57 am
This is the second post in my series of Ruby tools articles. This time I am focused on Ruby test quality tools. Devver is always really interested in testing, and obviously the quality of a project’s tests is important. We are always looking at ways to add even more value to the investment teams put [...]
September 28, 2008 – 2:35 pm
I have been interested in all of the tools that exist for Ruby developers. I give you the first of a series of posts where I will be looking at some of the more interesting Ruby tools.
Recently a few different Rail performance tools / web services have been released. They are leaps and bounds better [...]
September 4, 2008 – 3:19 pm
I am am a big believer in software testing. I normally have created tests after writing my code and mostly to ensure that regressions of functionality don’t occur when the code is changed. As I have become more comfortable with testing, and the changes it requires such as writing testable code, I have found even [...]
August 29, 2008 – 6:29 pm
Inspired by two posts _Why’s ’so create’ and GitHub’s Start a Side Project I decided that I needed to do a quick side project. After our demo day we were taking the weekend easy and I had some extra time on Sunday. I decided that I should find a really quick project something I could [...]
When I first started working with Ruby I used RadRails (which still has the best integrated test runner I have used). Various problems and crashes with RadRails along with exciting features being added to Ruby NetBeans enticed me to switch. I enjoyed NetBeans and some of its features, but the weight of my IDE began slowing [...]
When you are working with projects in the command line all day, it can be really annoying to have to remember the exact location of everything. Often when programming against a gem in Ruby, it can be really useful to read over the documentation. Adding a couple lines to your .bash_profile can make loading up [...]
We have been trying to work with some different Ruby technologies lately. We are moving to RSpec from Test::Unit, because we believe it has several advantages. It also seems all the cool projects are moving to RSpec: Rubinius, Typo, Mephisto, and of course Merb.
In learning these two technologies together, I have found a few resources [...]
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