Category Archives: Ruby

RJS Templates for Rails

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I recently got a free copy of RJS Templates for Rails from the Milwaukee Ruby User’s Group. O’Reilly has a program that makes books available for free to Users Groups, which is a really nice thing (of course they bank … Continue reading →

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Rails on Rails

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Geoff Lane

If Ruby on Rails is all about optimizing the development of web applications, then what would happen if you optimized Rails? Well, it would get streamlined. Streamlined is a generator for Rails that can be used to easily create sites … Continue reading →

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MKE Ruby Group

Posted on July 13, 2006 by Geoff Lane

The Milwaukee Ruby User’s Group had it’s first official meeting last night. A few people showed up and we talked about some of our favorite ruby features. I talked about Metaprogramming a bit. There was also a good discussion about … Continue reading →

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Milwaukee Wisconsin Ruby Brigade

Posted on June 7, 2006 by Geoff Lane

Ok, so I don’t know what the name is really going to be, but it looks like there is going to be a Ruby User’s group in Milwaukee. There was a kick-off meeting tonight that was well attended for a … Continue reading →

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Rails 1.1 Released

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Geoff Lane

Yeah, so I’m sure everyone who cares already knows that Ruby on Rails 1.1 has been released. Congratulations to the core team for what appears to be a quality release. They are building on their strengths for sure and offering … Continue reading →

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Ruby 1.8 (today) vs C# 3.0 (some future date)

Posted on March 25, 2006 by Geoff Lane

One of the big features I keep hearing .NET developers talk about is something called Language Integrated Query (LINQ). LINQ is an Object Query Language (OQL) technology that is slated to be integrated into .NET 3.0. In the general sense … Continue reading →

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Ruby Features You’ll Wish You Had In Other Languages

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Geoff Lane

Three Ruby related posts in a row! Yes, I’m currently enamored with this colorful little language. If you know people that know (or you yourself know) languages like Smalltalk and Lisp, you’ll often hear them curse when they use other … Continue reading →

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Ruby Quiz Metaprogramming Challenge

Posted on February 19, 2006 by Geoff Lane

Check out the Ruby Quiz run by James Edward Gray II. It’s a weekly ‘quiz’ that runs on the ruby-talk mailing list each week. I think this is a great idea for any language, but especially emerging languages full of … Continue reading →

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Ruby SOAP4R For Web Services

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Geoff Lane

Web Services are about sharing. SOAP Web Services are about interoperability. If you don’t need to share information or services and if you don’t need to interoperate with other systems or other programming languages, then why incur the overhead of … Continue reading →

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Ruby REXML – Another Take on XML Parsing

Posted on January 25, 2006 by Geoff Lane

If you are a programmer and have not been living under a rock, you’ve heard of Ruby. There’s been a lot of hype built up around the language recently. Its even more hyped progeny Ruby on Rails highlight the strengths … Continue reading →

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