I just got back from Pune after attending the third Rubyconf India (well, that was last Monday; I managed to keep this post in drafts for a week), and - having attended all three conferences - I have to say, this conference keeps getting better every year. For me, the highlights of this year’s Rubyconf [...]
I spend the day on Saturday at ThoughtWorks Chennai attending a code retreat. This is the first time I've attended a code retreat and I had a lot of fun at the event. This code retreat was organized in many different cities across the world as part of the Global Day of Code Retreat (Dec [...]
[This is the 4th part of a series of posts about writing a Ruby gem. The introductory post about this tutorial contains links to each part of the tutorial. Previous post - Publishing to Rubygems.org.] So far in this tutorial we haven’t written any code that would be useful in solving Sudoku. The reason is [...]
[This is a part of a series of posts about writing a Ruby gem. The introductory post about this tutorial contains links to each part of the tutorial. Previous post - Gem specifications.] In the previous post, we saw how to set up the gemspec and also installed the empty gem into our rubygems directory. [...]
[This is the first part of a series of posts about writing a Ruby gem. The introductory post about this tutorial contains links to each part of the tutorial. Next post: Adding some code.] The first thing to do when creating a new gem is to create a file called gemspec that contains information about [...]
Creating a Ruby gem is a lot easier than it seems. Many tutorials about writing gems recommend using something like Jeweler or Hoe to create the structure of the gem for you. Using such tools will make it much easier to get started with a gem, but building a gem from scratch will help you [...]
I haven't been able to post updates here regularly enough on the afternoon day 1, so I don't think there's much point in having a separate post for day 2. I'll be posting updates from day 2 here and this time I'll post reverse chronologically. Day 2 5.00pm Nick Sieger is about to present the [...]
Often enough in the Rails community you hear people saying that following the Rails way of doing things will make life much easier. As the title suggests, this is the book that teaches you how to develop Rails 3 applications in "the Rails way". This book is not for beginners. Readers should at least know [...]
If you are new to Ruby programming, Eloquent Ruby should be the book you read right after you finish your introductory Ruby book. It's not a beginner's tutorial, but with a little background on Ruby, it would be easy to follow. This is one of the better programming books I've read. It has plenty of [...]
I have always used erb for my Rails templates, but today I decided to try HAML. I was pleasantly surprised by how little work there is to get it to work. First add the following line to the Gemfile and run bundle install. gem 'haml' Let's suppose this is the ERB code for the application [...]