Do you want to know how much outgoing traffic there is from your S3 bucket? Maybe your account cost has increased and you need to know what is generating all…
This week I released the neo4j-cypher ruby gem version 1.0.0. Cypher queries can now be written in Ruby instead of as a long string. The DSL uses common Ruby conventions…
New to Capistrano? Read my previous and more introductory blog post on Capistrano - Remote builds with Capistrano. Are you using Capistrano and are confused why the user environment, the…
Capistrano is a very nice open source tool for executing commands on one or multiple remote servers via SSH. Capistrano is written in Ruby and uses a rake-like DSL for…
I’m am looking forward to Øredev 2011 more than I have looked forward to any of the previous ones. The reason for this is that Øredev has finally become a…
Another good Ruby book is out, Rails Anti-Patterns. The book is loaded with good tips on everything from following the Law of Demeter to cleaning up your views with the…
Based on the book Exceptional Ruby by Avdi Grimm, I have developed a strategy for how I should deal with exceptions in Ruby. Being a very dynamic language, Ruby allows…
I am sure everybody has heard about Cucumber ( https://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber) – a tool for Behaviour Driver Development where you describe software behavior in natural language that your customer can understand.…
José Valim is one of the newest members of the Rails core team. Apart from this he has also developed some good gems, Devise, Responders, and SimpleForm, that I use…
Every second, the human brain is bombarded with information, the conscious part of the brain is only able to handle a tiny percentage of this. The rest is handled by…
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds. --Bob Marley, Redemption Song There are a number of reasons to love Ruby and I will share some…
One of the great things about Ruby is the community. When something is not working out as well as it could, someone figures out a way to improve it. It…
If you ask a Ruby programmer why he is using Ruby, you will probably get several answers like: It is dynamic. I allows me too keep my code DRY. I…
Do you remember the time before 9/11 when you could arrive to the airport 10 minutes before the plane's departure and just walk on to the plane. Now, you have…
I recently was contacted to implement an ASP.NET MVC application and I saw this as a great opportunity to compare it with Rails3. What immediately strikes you when you start…