Articles tagged with ruby
Monday, December 10, 2007
Go ahead, cheat (It's ok!)
Though I'm fairly weened from intellisense from my .NET days, I still find myself always needing some type of reference when writing Ruby or Rails projects. There's always a browser tab with the Rails API, noobkit, or some other cheatsheet . While cheatsheets are pretty and all, they are sometimes just a hassle to find and go it when you just need that little syntax helper. So what do I do, I cheat.
This little command line tool provides a wealth of help at the tip of your fingertips.
gem install cheatThen see what cheats are available.
cheat sheetsOr just run one (I use this one a lot)
cheat strftimeThere are just hundreds out there. And you can edit (fix) one or add your own. The app is just a command line front end to a wiki. Pretty sweet.
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Ruby Debug
So one of the hardest things to do in a highly dynamic language is to debug code. If you feel the same way, check out the ruby-debug gem. Rails 2.0 now has full support for it and it’s a real “step forward, into, and out” debugger.
Here’s a great screencast to get you started. If you use cheat (which I highly recommend), simply type cheat rubydebug in the console to see all the options.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
About Ryan
Ryan Wood is a web developer and owner of Sourcescape, a small web development company in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina, where he specializes in building web pplications using Ruby on Rails and other open source tools.
He also heads up Upstate on Rails, the Ruby & Rails user group for Upstate SC.
During the day, he can be found parading as a Senior Software Architect at ClearCheck Payment Solutions where he architects and builds web applications using ColdFusion.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Backup
I was searching for some examples of DSL Ruby development and stumbled upn this little GEM. Backup is a DSL focusing on backups. It looks very well done, cut from the same mold (even using some of the same code) as capistrano.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Google does Ruby
Wow. Google Commissions Ten Ruby Libs. Here are the projects.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Upstate SC Ruby on Rails User Group
I’m happy to announce that I (and a few other brave souls) will be starting a Ruby/Rails user group for the upstate of South Carolina. We are tentatively planning to meet the 2nd Tuesday of each month starting in May.
Please join the mailing list for more details.
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Hal sips the Ruby Kool-aid
I’ve long been a fan of Hal Helms. He’s a great teacher, thinker, and “coach” of ColdFusion. I learned a lot of my good coding habits from reading his newsletter. Although I’m not doing much CF anymore, I still read it. In his most recent newsletter, he notes that his study of Ruby is shaping his view of CF. In fact, he’s gleaning from Ruby:
I also began studying Ruby, a language that is unabashedly dynamically typed and fully object-oriented. After being immersed in that heady world for a bit, I emerged to again work with ColdFusion. This time, though, undoubtedly influenced by Ruby, I decided to dispense with the pseudo-strong typing.
Go Hal. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more on this.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Rails Resources
I know most of the people who read this (all 2 of you) don’t use Rails. Maybe you want to, maybe you don’t. Either way I’m still going to talk about it. ; )
Anyway, here are a few resources to get someone started:
I’ll add more as I find them. Try it, go ahead, you know you want to.
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