General articles about ruby. Not too technical
I know I sound like an old coot whose afraid of change, but there is something that doesn’t feel right for me with the new Single Page Application craze. It’s like all of a sudden, we’ve decided that web applications are crappy and that we want a return to traditional client/server applications. It’s a if […]
During all these years, Capistrano has been for me a magical gnome that I invoke by saying “cap deploy, my magical friend!” and then I close my eyes, sing a happy song in my head and when the gnome has finished his magic, I hit F5 to see if all went well. And of course, […]
Before I start, let me get something straight: I’m not saying it would be a good or bad idea… I’m just asking the question. I must say that my first experience with a significant whitespace language was a disaster. The first time I had to use Python was on a server via ssh. I was […]
One of our projects, called Mon Curling, is a web application that helps recreational curling leagues with their schedules, results and standings. One thing that the app was NOT doing was to generate the schedule automatically. Instead, the league manager had to generate his schedule beforehand and enter all the matches manually in our interface. […]
Update: You can follow the discussion on Hacker news I guess I won’t make a lot of friends by saying this but my first impression with Ruby 1.9 was awful. Since we had to configure a new server, we thought it was the perfect occasion to install ruby 1.9 and see how our current web […]
Hello everyone, For the past few months this blog has been pretty much dead. I could give you tons of excuses as for why it has been so but that’s all they would be, mere excuses! And I assure you that you would not find any of them very convincing. I received several comments recently […]
simplyglobal : A simple globalization plugin for Rails The following is a guest post from Dan Simard Sometimes, you have to reinvent the wheel. It’s really sad to say and you will probably hate me for saying that (and I know that you’ll do because I hate myself for it). I’ve written a new globalization […]
It’s been a while since the latest release of XMPP4r. I was starting to think that the development for this great library had been stopped. Fortunately, version 0.4 has been released on August 5th 2008. We’re going to try this new version internally and eventually use it for TimmyOnTime. I am personnally hoping for less […]
Being a Linux/Ubuntu user, i cannot use the praised Textmate editor to develop ruby applications. I tried a lot of editors, some of them being very good ones, but in the end I always end up using gedit. gedit is great… but it is rather limited features-wise. Recently I have tried Komodo Edit and I […]
I feel so weird. Maybe it’s just the side-effects of eating that old, pinky-brown colored and talking piece of raw meat that was sitting in the corner of my kitchen since a month or two… but as strange as it may sound, I think it’s something else. I think it is something related to Rails […]