Ruby

Ruby language fundamentals, quirks, and ecosystem tools beyond the Rails framework.

Building a Pluggable Adapter Architecture in Ruby

How to design a gem with zero hard dependencies and user-selectable backends.

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Testing a Ruby Gem Across Multiple Adapter Combinations

Using Appraisal to test every combination of optional dependencies.

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Document Conversion on Heroku

Getting LibreOffice and ImageMagick working for PDF conversion on Heroku.

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Introducing DocPDF

A Ruby gem for document-to-PDF conversion and watermarking, with zero hard dependencies.

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Jekyll Presentation at Ruby AZ

A presentation on the Jekyll static site generator from a recent Phoenix Ruby meetup.

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Arizona's First Ruby Conference - SunnyConf 2010

SunnyConf 2010 is Arizona's first Ruby conference. With a great lineup of speakers, lightning talks and hacking, you won't want to miss it!

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Honeypot Captchas for Rails

A simple, unobtrusive way to try to combat automated form spam.

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Fixing Multipart Uploads in Rack for Ruby 1.9

Patch your Rack installation after seeing an 'invalid byte sequence in US-ASCII' error.

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Using Named Scopes in a Rails Plugin

After extracting common functionality with named scopes into a Rails plugin, I was seeing some strange behavior. I describe the cause and solution.

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Error after upgrading SliceHost

Fixing the INLINEDIR/HOME TemplateError that appears after a SliceHost upgrade

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TwitterBot Gem Released

Announcing a Ruby gem for accessing Twitter via XMPP, plus the TwitterProps app built on it

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GoRuCo 2008 Wrap-up

Highlights from the Gotham Ruby Conference, including story-driven development and code quality talks

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GoRuCo 2008

Heading to New York for the Gotham Ruby Conference

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The Tip of the Ruby #1

Understanding the difference between or and || operator precedence in Ruby

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Ruby Time Limitations

Ruby's Time class has platform-dependent minimum values -- use Date or DateTime instead

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