Ruby is an interpreted object-oriented programming language often used for web development. It also offers many scripting features to process plain text and serialized files, or manage system tasks. It is simple
Y'all are a real 'gem' in the Ruby community.”Hunter Stewart “I've read countless blogs, and watched many other videos to try and understand blocks, but they all seem to either be filled with assumptions or never provide any depth to their explanations. I always found myself with no...
One way that the community has worked around the limitations of existing Ruby implementations is to write extension modules in the C programming language. These are statically compiled and then dynamically linked into the Ruby implementation. Compared to equivalent Ruby, this C code is often more ef...
There are some misconceptions in the Ruby community about this question surrounding MRI’s GIL. If you only take one thing away from this article today, let it be this: The GIL does not make your Ruby code thread-safe.Read More This Week in Ruby: Matz on Ruby 2.0, Numerous Conference C...
Dedicated to Ruby community 03Mar / 2012 Deploy Spree 1.0 on Heroku I am in the process of moving my digital house to the new Octopress-based ruby-journal.com, there are many things to clean up and migrate but I guess for now I will do double-post on this site and the new site....
and make the changes to support Qt5/Qt6. This will be really difficult as the Smoke libraries used in this project do not work well with C++11+. Its been a fun 10 years maintaining this for the Ruby community, but at this point I would recommend using Python if you want to create ...
Update February 13th: Join the discussion on Hacker News If you’re part of the Ruby On Rails community for a long time, you’ve probably read tons of articles about testing Rails application (less these days, though). Although there always have been diverging opinions on the matter, it se...
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Dave Thomas is a cornerstone of the Ruby community, and is personally responsible for many of its innovative directions and initiatives. He and original co-author Andy Hunt are founders of the Pragmatic Programmers and the Pragmatic Bookshelf. Chad Fowler is co-director of Ruby Central, Inc., ...
A special thanks to Mike Clark and Ara Howard for inspiring this project. Mike Clark wrote an excellent blog post about learning Ruby through unit testing. This sparked an idea that has taken a bit to solidify, that of bringing new rubyists into the community through testing. Ara Howard then...