I came across Peter Norvig's article How to Write a Spelling Corrector the other day and felt that packaging it as a ruby gem would be a nice way to learn how to create gems. The gem gives you a SpellingBee class that can suggest corrections for mis-spelled words based on the frequency of words [...]
When I entered the world of ruby, I knew nothing about it. I was hired to develop web applications, and it was after I started working that my employers chose ruby on rails as the platform for the project I was to work on. I never had to make a choice about what language or [...]
While generating RESTful routes in rails, it is easy to get carried away and generate many levels of nested resources for every level of has_many associations. For instance, I recently wrote something like this in my routes file: # in config/routes.rb map.resources :first_resources do |first| first.resources :second_resources do |second| second.resources :third_resources end end Here FirstResouce [...]
Earlier this week at work I made a presentation for the non-rubyists about how to get started with ruby. There was plenty of discussion about the basics of ruby and how a newbie can get started. I had made a list of useful books and websites that people could use to get started with Ruby [...]
Those of you following this blog or my twitter stream probably know already that I spent last weekend attending RubyConf India in Bangalore. The conference was a huge success and I'm sure it helped inspire a lot of newbies like me. Day 1 Along with the rest of the team from Foradian, I took a [...]