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Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features.
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A collection of lessons and guidelines for writing Rspec Stories. With story examples taken from real systems and how they have been improved as I gained more experience. While there is lots of...
This article is the first of two that demonstrates how a Ruby on Rails application can be deployed inside of WAS V6.1, and how to integrate WAS existing features with Ruby on Rails applications. This...
A quick overview of a few reasons that make Ruby an interesting programming language to learn.
This third article from the DB2 and Ruby on Rails series shows you how testing works in a DB2 on Rails environment, and how easy it is to write tests within the Ruby on Rails framework. In Part 1, we...
Setuptools framework, a side project of PEAK, provides easier package management and distribution than distutils. Setuptools lets you package your libraries in a single-file archive called an "egg,"...
Apple doesn't provide any APIs to read iCal's data, but you can do it yourself. This article presents a Ruby module to read iCal data and use in your own Ruby applications, including complete Cocoa...
This is the second article in a multi-part series in which we use Ruby and the Tk toolkit to develop a GUI front end for the cron task scheduler. In the first article, we learned the basics of...
This article can be considered the fourth and fifth in a series covering Ruby programming on Mac OS X. However, unlike the first three articles of this series, this tutorial can be used as a...
Ruby. Perhaps you've heard of it? "Oh, yeah, I think it's one of those new object oriented scripting languages", you say. I know a lot of you might be thinking "Not another new language! I'm...
Bindings In Ruby, bindings are explicitly made available in a Binding object. Invoking the binding method will produce a Binding object for the current local variables.
This article steps through the development of a web application using Rails. It won't teach you how to program in Ruby, but if you already know another object-oriented programming language, you...
This article shows you how to create a guestbook Web application with the Cerise Web server and the Ruby programming language. You'll use RSS 1.0 as the file format for the guestbook entries and XSLT...
Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language, talks with Bill Venners about two kinds of nameless functions in Ruby: blocks and closures.
Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language, talks with Bill Venners about morphing interfaces, using mix-ins, and the productivity benefits of being concise in Ruby.
Yukihiro Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming
language, talks with Bill Venners about Ruby's design
philosophy, including design imperfection, the danger of
orthogonality, and the...
