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Nostrils (3 words)
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Double Gets as Heredoc (51 words)
From John Joyce in [ruby-talk:245343]:
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Hpricot and Markaby Elope (3 words)
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Rubinius and Its Helpful Dev'il (54 words)
Whoa, the rubini.us site is all fleshed out with forums and a wiki and the like.
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The Hpricot and Sandbox Mailing Lists (100 words)
I know a lot of you have questions about how to use Hpricot.
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Stream Copy YouTube, Revver, Etc. (3 words)
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Ola's Clever Hpricot Hack (96 words)
If you’re running JRuby from trunk, try this:
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SuperRedCloth 1.160 Gems (93 words)
With the help and goodwill of the RedCloth mailing list, it has been decided that RedCloth 4 will end
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When Rageling, Bring a Bird Beak (139 words)
While bunking inside Ragel, I’m starting to see the handiness of its lookahead operator.
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And Now, Hpricot 0.5 is Yours (155 words)
Ach. Prih. Kott! With much, much, much.
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SuperRedCloth (47 words)
I’m sick of RedCloth being my most nauseating library!!
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I've Read Your Horoscope and You're No Hacker (118 words)
What’s up with this job posting which demands a Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius or Aquarius?
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Instiki to Junebug (67 words)
Want to move from Instiki to Junebug? I exported my Instiki as a zip of . -
Christoffer's Hpricot Goodies (92 words)
So, in what ways have you guys extended Hpricot?
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Oh Yeah: Irb Applet (128 words)
You’re going to ask yourself, “What’s the point?” And, sure, go ahead.
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FreakyFreaky Now Resumes Its Usual Sandly Self (162 words)
I know it’s been out of sorts for the past month, but the big checkin is, in fact, IN.
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Visitors Who Steal Ruby Off to New VMs (104 words)
m possible into something Squeak Smalltalk can load and run, and hey, it adds 3+4 and comes up with 7.
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PickPocket, a Marshal Ransack Hack (659 words)
Today’s hack is a Marshal hack, which is a highly common (but quite untapped)
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Denver Accord (528 words)
Takahashi, Matz, Ko1, Urabe, Ogino and me I talked about a plan of the near future
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Evan's Camping Slides (118 words)
The very campsmart and railswise Evan Weaver has put up his Camping slides from a Philly gathering.
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A Lambda Camcorder (61 words)
Beware magic-haters, a hack from Mike Williams, wherein you do a bunch of method calls on an -
Ripping Up Wikipedia, Subjugating It (262 words)
There’s an article that covers taking apart Wikipedia pages with Hpricot on the blog of Shane
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Camping is Still Your 4k Pinkyframework! (878 words)
See, still just 3909 bytes! And, yet, a sizeworthy CHANGELOG!
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Hack This Sign On a Remote Wood Floor (118 words)
Hey, whoa, Aaron Patterson’s got a great hack! -
(String < Enumerable).nil? (134 words)
So, it sounds like the 1.
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Open Up Your Wiki and We'll Finish it For You (274 words)
I’m hoping the Freaky Freaky Sandbox will avail me of having to finish anything ever again.
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Hoodwink.d Nameplates & Rollups (189 words)
To the Hoodwink.rs: Please deinstall then reinstall.
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The Ruby-GDB Arms Race Now At a Standoff (261 words)
Generous Mauricio gives:
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Sandbox Has a New Patch (286 words)
What was a two-line patch has now become rather significant.
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:symbol.is_a? String (57 words)
gt;> :symbol.is_a?
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Trimming Off the Internet (205 words)
Anyone wondering about MouseHole 2? Rany Keddo has posted some instructions for winding it up.
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The Sandbox is Loading Gems and Acting Less Freaky (198 words)
I really hoped that 1.8.
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Marshalling Ruby 2.0 Codes (200 words)
We’re all eager to see YARV spout real live bytecode, but ko1 has a fun sort of inbetween
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Ruby 1.8.5 is Real Close, Here's Preview 4. (128 words)
Today Matz announced 1.8.5-preview 4.
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Camping Gets J'd, Placing It at the Very Epicenter of Hate! (208 words)
Oh, this is wise. So, Camping already had two INCREDIBLY GOOD reasons for hating it.
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Wares About (141 words)
mfp: The wmii devels do not want to link against xft (it is deemed a piece of crap, just like 99.
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How to Follow Cardinal Around These Days (31 words)
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Autorequire is Basically Gone, Everyone (183 words)
I’ve had a handful of e-mail about the Hpricot gem not working.
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Hpricot the OhFourth (250 words)
Well, here’s a new release of Hpricot: 0.4. This I didn’t expect.
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Handing Out IRB Like It's Sardines (300 words)
I’m sort of obsessed with getting people into a Ruby prompt without any installation.
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Sandbox's Init and Import (276 words)
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Those Fortunate Portlanders 2 (83 words)
O’Reilly Radar says there’s also a tour of Free Geek on Friday.
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Nikolai's UTF-8 Lib is All Ready (147 words)
str.reverse.
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Hpricot and Sandbox for Win32 (171 words)
Mauricio checked in some Rakefiles for cross-compiling to win32, so I’ve got some win32 gems -
The Standard (Freaky, But Not FreakyFreaky) Sandbox (221 words)
Before I get into how to lock down the sandbox, let’s talk about what kinds of nifty things you
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FrkyFrkyBox'n ][ (234 words)
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The Thrilling Freaky-Freaky Sandbox Hack!! (311 words)
Holy cats, I’m proud to offer you this sensational hack today.
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Monkeypytching? (120 words)
So now some Pythonistas want monkeypatching! Will the snakes recoil? -
Mucking With Unicode for 1.8 (307 words)
The idea here with this little project is to enhance the strings in Ruby 1.8 to support encodings.
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The Camping Server (258 words)
Lately, I’ve been writing little Camping apps that I can just drop in a directory and they get
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Methods That Self-Destruct (198 words)
Expiring a method. And let’s keep meta out of this.
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p^P is Pastie Straight from Vim (60 words)
Sensational: You just select the text you want in vim, then hit p^P and (if you’ve got xclip
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Mail Plugin for Ruby-Wmii (148 words)
Using Mauricio’s ruby-wmii?
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rb2js (48 words)
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Okay, Give Hpricot 0.2 a Go (303 words)
This time I’m giving a balloon out which can be used for quick testing.
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Hpricot 0.1 (91 words)
gem install hpricot --source code.whytheluckystiff.
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The Early Inhabitants of Balloon (66 words)
Install a script for launching balloons.
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Balloon (90 words)
Create new scripts from the home page.
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Try Ruby in Second Life (94 words)
Oh, here we go. Teach your avatar Ruby and double the population of Rubyists at once.
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Counting At The Cloak 'N' Bind (342 words)
So Method#to_proc is basically totally bankrupt.
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Here's Ruby 1.8.5 Preview 1 (157 words)
Hear this: Ruby 1.8.5-preview1 is out.
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Speeding Up Builder 2.0 (206 words)
This week I’m trying to break the skids off of Markaby.
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A Few Wmii-3 Hacks (637 words)
ybe even more so amongst Rubyists, which would often kill for a Mac — their third or fourth one)
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Nearing RubyGems 0.9.0 (79 words)
Hobbyists and testers, come on:
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Mosquito & Decamp (70 words)
Mosquito, a little testing setup for Camping.
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Less method_missing in Markaby (214 words)
gt;> salect :onclick => 'javascript:alert("GIMMICK!")
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Markaby's Magic-Permeation Branch (267 words)
So, Markaby is so magical it hurts, right?
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Stick it in Your ~/.irbrc: MethodFinder (132 words)
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If You're Too Small For a Normal Doorway (30 words)
svn co http://code.whytheluckystiff.
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Fictohedron: Writing Team Novels with the Help of a Spam Filter (723 words)
You feed a pile of books through a spam filter. Half are books you favor.
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Park Place Does Torrents, It's Called 0.7 (147 words)
gem install parkplace --source code.whytheluckystiff.
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HsSyck from Audrey Tang (157 words)
So, YAML support for Haskell. Right here.
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High Performance WEBrick on BSD (79 words)
Here’s a great hack by Eric Hodel: High Performance WEBrick (at the very bottom.)
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Park Place is Sure Glossy in Trunk (116 words)
From the latest checkin:
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If You Want to Tell Your Friend About Camping But Unfortunately His Headphones Are Too Loud (802 words)
st changes have been previously described, many minor bugfixes, large file downloading and uploading.
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Park Place, the S3 Clone You've Been Always Almost Wanting to Save Fifteen Cents With! (453 words)
Yes yeah, that’s right. Put that dime away and put especially that clunky nickel away.
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Ruby Classes as Directories, Methods as Files (115 words)
A fantastic hack by Shinichiro H!
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What's in Camping 1.4? (306 words)
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YARV No Longer an Acronym for "You Acknowledge the Reek of Vapors" (191 words)
Good thing gabriele renzi is out there, because I’ve been off my shoe this week.
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People Piling in the Very Last Car (127 words)
The caboo.se blog has kept a lot of activity happening, staffed with a pile of Railsers who’ve
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Mauricio Skips Recursion With YARV's Hidden Levels! (123 words)
Mauricio’s found some CFLAGS in YARV which will power-up the opcodes to give Ruby a highly
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Manners for IRB (57 words)
Okay, well, yesterday’s discussion went pretty positively, so you can throw this file in as
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Ideas for Ruby 2 Manners (307 words)
If I could clean up the little quacks that Ruby gives here and there.
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Franchise.d (67 words)
gem install camping markaby --source code.whytheluckystiff.
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Markaby 0.3 (128 words)
Now that Markaby’s had some life experiences, Tim and I have sucker-punched it a bit here and
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Ezra's Where Plugin is Out (95 words)
Okay, well, KLAAABOOM, more Ruby. For spelling out queries. Lotsa operator mischief.
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Day Camp at Mongrel National Park (207 words)
Zed and I worked over the weekend on smoothing out the divide between Camping (the 4k web framework)
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Twisted, Piping Forum, Goes by the Name of Fugi (196 words)
You can say you invented tumblelogging way back in the paleolithic era all you want, Chris Neukirchen
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[EVALUATION] - E06 - RDOC REFRAMING (182 words)
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Injecting a Hash Backwards and the Merge Block (238 words)
Here’s a fun snippet cooked up for the Camping 1.
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Mongrel's Going to Kill Webrick, Give It a Month (187 words)
You’ve got to see for yourself this web server Zed Shaw is working on.
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UTF-8 Plugin for Rails, Fine for Ruby 1.8 (174 words)
Here’s the story thus far. Ruby has no Unicode support in 1.8 (except for Regexps)
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Showing Perfect Time (782 words)
What timezone do your site’s timestamps show? Or have you opted to just say three months ago?
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Markaby for Rails (560 words)
You know that WebPage code I’ve been playing with lately?
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Trust Metrics Mixin #1: PageRank (816 words)
Here’s today’s challenge.
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Language Hopping with YAML (247 words)
So far, 2006 is shaping up to be a great year for YAML, due to recent work at a Chupei hackathon to
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The Slice Matcher (132 words)
String#[] and slice both hand you back matches, right?
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Son of WebPage (168 words)
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Interesting: Try Python is Coming Along (254 words)
Other adventurous folks taming snakes are letting us tease those snakes in the open jungle!
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Heh, Mmmnn, Perl People (57 words)
From the Jifty pages: -
Oh, Hey, Learn to Program is Really Out! (247 words)
Well, Chris Pine’s book is for sale, you can even get the PDF within seconds from the praggies.
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Easy Web Making (184 words)
So, I’ve been working on distilling an HTML maker library for beginners.
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In and Out Filters for Hacked mod_ruby (218 words)
MouseHole R&D has hacked some input and output filters for Apache:
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Become a Try Ruby Narrator Straightaway (237 words)
Concerning Try Ruby. You should now find a list of tutorials in the TUTORIALS constant.
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A Block Costume (456 words)
We follow Block, who goes into a cloak room and emerges with a change of fashion.
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Why Wait for Christmas? (Don't!) (198 words)
If I know you, you don’t have Ruby 1.8.3 installed. And why not? -
Try Ruby is Done, Makes HTML Now (120 words)
Just wrapped things up. I’m really pleased with the last half of this tutorial.
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Two new method names relevant to Range (223 words)
Matz wants good names for two new method on his blog(2005-12-10).
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Varnish Dry on Wink'd 1.6 (182 words)
hing more satisfying than watching a flurry of winks land on a blog that has just closed its comments.
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Rubyless Ruby (389 words)
Pardon the absence. I’m adventuring along the coast this month. (Rails 1.0 is out, wowwa!)
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Today is All Reruns (104 words)
tutorial, I’m just going to put this old reel on, which has been trapped in torrents until now.
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Mixins, But With Tablespoons (183 words)
Mauricio’s at it again.
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Try Ruby: Resets and Chapter Hops (88 words)
A couple new commands in Try Ruby! -
I Thought Process::detach Was My Friend (280 words)
So, Try Ruby has been riddled with problems. -
205,000 Lines of Ruby Code Donated in the Try Ruby Drive (326 words)
You hear that sound?
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One Small Flask of Metaprogramming Elixir (309 words)
We could make metaprogramming easier for the common streetsfolk.
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Arity Makes Good Curry (122 words)
kig just dropped this snip in the comments of the pipes discussion, which had morphed into a -
Someone's Growing an Annotator for Himself and Others (333 words)
If you haven’t already subscribed, Mauricio Fernandez’ new blog at eigenclass.
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How to Injure a Wink'r (194 words)
If it bothers you - these winkers commenting on your blog without your persuasion - you might
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Hopping Through Pipes and Closures (165 words)
Again, just an example of Ruby’s flexibility.
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Signal vs. Noise Closes Comments to Non-Hoodwink'rs (109 words)
s fun to comment on a blog when the author of the blog can’t read your comments, however: it is. -
My Repository Transplant (582 words)
I’ve moved all of my source code out of CVS and injected it all into a clean set of SVN
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JSON Closer to YAML, But No Cigar (Thanks Alot, Whitespace!) (233 words)
A while ago, I had an epiphany about all JSON being valid YAML. Great news, right?
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Real Estate Hackers Prevailing? (297 words)
The new Rails-based board game llor.nu opened a few days ago.
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MenTaL on Monads in Ruby (79 words)
Hey, there’s more Ruby to talk about. Can you believe it?
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Matz Just Sent Me a Ruby Script From 2009 (144 words)
It suddenly toppled through this DRb port I just opened!
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Ruby Cries Out (45 words)
Your exceptions are hurting Ruby, in a deep and meaningful way.
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The Sounds of Selenium Testing Your Weblickation (55 words)
I just got a note from Luke Closs about a podcast where he talks about Selenium, a tool for automated -
require 'thin_ice' (167 words)
Danger. Danger. Danger. urirequire has been released. -
Handfuls of Rails Nails (333 words)
Once we were only wading to the knee in Rails documentation.
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Ad-Hoc Plugins Repository Forming Around Rails Wiki (112 words)
The new Rails release (0.14) includes a very loose support for plugins, right?
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Fading Rollups in 3k (83 words)
moo.fx is a handful of javascript effects in 3kb, dependant on Prototype’s ~28k JS. -
The Hoodwink.d Information Booth (11 words)
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Sharing Ruby and Python Exceptions (147 words)
If you’re coming from Python and using Ruby now (or straddling the both,)
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Hoodwink.d RSS Feeds (122 words)
Rather than subscribing to bloggers, here’s an option to subscribe to commenters.
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A Tour of Ruby, Every Blink of the Eye (150 words)
I can’t think of anything more valuable for us right now.
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Named Parameters? Aren't They All Named? (139 words)
None of us wants to delve back into the block/method/param argument again, right?
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Using MouseHole on LightTPD or Apache2 (254 words)
If you’re on Linux/BSD/OSX and you’d like to give MouseHole a power-up, try out the new
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The Story of Streaming HTTP Through MouseHole (With Subsequent Adventures in Continuations and Duck Typing) (1168 words)
Hacking MouseHole has been considerably fun and challenging, especially since much of the work
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Matz is on the Plane, Weighing Dots and Arrows (141 words)
Dots or arrows? Dots or arrows?
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Takahashi Method Spreads (207 words)
Daigo first covered this phenomenon in May when he posted a video of the Ruby no Kai presenting in
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Ruby Quiz Anthology on Its Way! (148 words)
Triumphant! James Edward Gray II has played host to fifty ruby quizzes over the last year and the
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Pugs and Eigenclasses? Yessir, This Satire's Got Legs! (167 words)
Ho, oh, ho, here we go. -
YARV Compiling on the Web, Native Thread Support (125 words)
Here we go, further down the road of Ruby2.
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MouseHolin' Yer Writeboards (197 words)
How do you keep track of your various Writeboard documents?
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Ruby Basecamp RSS (39 words)
Since the Basecamp guest account for Ruby Development is prompting for authentication, I’ve
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Here is MouseHole 1.2 (254 words)
Here, you remember MouseHole. We all came up with it on this thread.
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Eyelashes Found on CNN.com (102 words)
Winking slows down over the weekends, but the addition of sites certainly does not. -
You've Dazzled Us, Now Here is Your Cozy Chair (167 words)
So, if you’ve purchased anything from ThinkGeek lately, you might have taken their outgoing
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Ruby 1.8.3 Has Been Released (236 words)
Ruby 1.8.3 has been released. Thank you for the developers and users.
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Wiki Shell Scripting for MouseHole (291 words)
A wiki. That stores scripts. Run them from the URL. You have a personal Yubnub.
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RailsFS After a Couple Minutes of Tooling With Fuse, Whoa (383 words)
Hot cats, I’m already in love with FuseFS.
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Ruby 1.8.3 Preview Two (115 words)
Matz is plowing toward the 1.8.3 release.
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Caught in My Filters: Poignant PDF, Korean (88 words)
While cleaning my pending messages today for one of the poignant lists, an incredible thing lept out -
The Science Which Tom Uses to Bother Us (93 words)
And he needs to bother us. Because our Rubyforge mailing lists are full of pending messages. -
Churning Ruby into EXE (282 words)
I’m greatly impressed with RubyScript2Exe by Erik Veenstra, which wraps your Ruby script and
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You Can't Catch the Wink'd, Under the Crust They've Seep'd (44 words)
Goodbye, everyone. We’re self-sufficient now. -
Where is the Public Ruby Wikiware? (133 words)
I wasted way too much time setting up the MouseHole wiki last week.
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Solidarity (Wink Wink) (85 words)
We’ve decorated a corner.
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Just a Few MouseHole Tips (187 words)
If you’re hesistant to use mouseHole since you think you’ll need to commit to using a
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MouseHole 1.1 in Plain View (304 words)
Okay, MouseHole 1.1 is ready for you.
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The Lately Hoodwink'd (98 words)
Are you craving to comment (e.g. retort) on the following Ruby-related posts?
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YAML is Parseltongue (82 words)
Hey, Python finally has a YAML implementation! PySyck came out of nowhere today. -
A MouseHole Example: Showing Alt Text (328 words)
I figured some of you might want to tinker with a simple MouseHole user script, so I translated one -
The Javascript-Ruby Connection Slims (153 words)
Yeah, Ruby and Javascript have a close proximity—flgr once gave us proof.
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Announcing the MouseHole Proxy (162 words)
MouseHole is a scriptable proxy. Like Greasemonkey, but scripts are in Ruby.
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Nearing Greasemonkey for Browser-of-Choice with the Hoodlum Proxy! (280 words)
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No, XPath on Messy HTML is Just as Easy in Ruby (136 words)
You think XPath is easier in Javascript than in Ruby when it comes to invalid HTML? -
Hoodlums IV: No Sleep Till Borken (62 words)
Not quite there yet.
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The Coast is Clear to Vocally Praise RubyGems (191 words)
For awhile, the Ruby packaging playing field was utterly undecided. -
Hoodwink'd, Day Three: Clearness of Vision (70 words)
Onslaught prizes. I will probably be sending free galoshes to the top winkers.
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Hoodwink'd, Day Two: Five Infiltrations (61 words)
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DRb Inside Stored Procs (136 words)
A message from Tim Sutherland of the Ruby Weekly News.
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If You Don't Get Symbols (130 words)
Happy Friday, everyone.
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Docs Piling Up With Regard to Ajax and Ruby (138 words)
Two excellent Javascript libs have been riding sidecar with Rails: Sam Stephenson’s Prototype -
Oocli Fantasies (249 words)
I love a few of these concepts Reyn Vlietstra has dropped on the Ruby-Talk list for an
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Thin Strand of Search-and-Replace Rails (91 words)
If you’re playing with Rails and you want to better understand Ruby blocks, as well as method
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More Drawers for Your Docs (86 words)
Want Ruby documentation always right in Firefox’s left-side pocket?
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Ready-Patched Rite (84 words)
Gabriele Renzi points out the latest development in Ruby 2.
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RedCloth Ported to JavaScript (70 words)
Observe. His library is 16k and mine is 35k.
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Siphoning the Keywords Out (74 words)
Our PorCUpinECaSe bosom friend MenTaLguY is forsaking keywords and reveals the look of Ruby without
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Sam Ruby Funnels Down Rails (261 words)
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Walking Slide Numbers (159 words)
See how Vincent Foley makes a local copy of the slides Matz put up:
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Kwalify is YAML Schemas (120 words)
Wow, look what showed up today. Kwalify.
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Block and Lambda (474 words)
This entry is a loose summary of Matz blog : -
Lambda is a $SAFEcracker (60 words)
MenTaL sends this one in:
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WEBrick+WebDAV Handler Safely Extracted From the Wild (203 words)
Adrian Madrid originally found this Ruby app called Sarada and posted it to del.icio.us.
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Ruby is Just Plain Evolution (163 words)
Rick Nooner has dumped a bunch of thoughts on using Ruby in his distributed software and he makes a -
A Webmonkey Guy Thinks I Should Write for Webmonkey (349 words)
Yeah, okay, here’s a good one. Nice try, Terminator II with the Dracula collar.
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User-Defined Literals in Sydney (177 words)
Evan’s just released another Sydney while the Ruby-Core list is alive with bug reports and
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Syndey, the New People's Choice Ruby (258 words)
Evan Webb has done this neat thing where he’s branched Ruby 1.
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Stuffing Your Hand Down the Disposal (439 words)
Since we have our heads tilted in the direction of ruby+gc, Eustáquio “TaQ” Rangel
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Ruby-Lisp Hybrid Pix (109 words)
Wild, here’s another shot of that envisioning of Ruby in the parenthetical, posted by Slyphon
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RubyVM Just Months Away (217 words)
Ko1 is (firmly) back in the saddle.
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The Fully Upturned Bin (126 words)
I have something for you.
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Wow, Do We All Get a Language? (262 words)
We’re all having a lot of fun this year making lovely hybrid languages from Ruby syntax, be it
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PNG Dimensions in a Lilliputian Angel's Eyelash (47 words)
Phantasms of pingspark conjoured by Sam Stephenson: -
Web Ontologies on an Angel's Eyelash (101 words)
Whoa, Obie Fernandez dropped a potent little bouillon cube on his blog:
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Closing in on Unicode with Jcode (217 words)
Patrick Hall has a great article on using the Jcode module for Ruby, which provides a more natural
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What Say We Help Prototype Explain Itself? (349 words)
Linkerkind is once again swarming around the Ajax+Rails article just up today, but are you aware of
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Holy Red Snakes! (Cont'd.) (151 words)
As previously reported, Python’s Enhancement #340 pitches the addition of anonymous block
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Ruby Morse.mid Maker (101 words)
Dan Berger just dropped a link to a pile of random Ruby scripts. -
Keep in Mind the Morse Code Revival (140 words)
I guess the Morse v. SMS wars are escalating! Screenshot to your left (my right)
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Digging Deep with Instance_eval (129 words)
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Rails BetaBook Hits the Spot (500 words)
Now that I’ve had a chance to go through the Rails BetaBook, I thought some of you might want a
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Hatching New Methods in Mid-air (214 words)
Ken Miller sent in a very interesting class, which creates new methods as they are needed.
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Oh, Source for Popular Codesharing App Unveiled in Obscure Four-letter Link on a Blog Somewhere (101 words)
Yeah, the source code for Peter Cooper’s code-sharing site (now at version 0.2)
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Lighttpd+Rails Launcher (56 words)
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The Rabbit Will Die in Smalltalk (207 words)
Like anyone else who plays Dwemthy’s Array, Darren Hobbs plays a rabbit who is going to die at
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Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, Chapter Six (155 words)
The foxes are back.
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Backpack Accepts YAML Payload (203 words)
The Backpack Weblog just posted a complete Backpack API for Ruby [mirror] which is terrifically
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Autrijus Raising Perl6 as a Real Puppy Should (177 words)
Okay, well, from my point of view, from where I’m at in my life, the most baffling, dazzling, -
Hopscotching Arrays with Flip-Flops (192 words)
Hehe. You’re going to love this! (Warning: some of you are going to hate this.)
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Cleaned in a Gross Way (268 words)
Florian Groß is disassembling and analyzing the obfuscated Ruby contest winners! -
The Ruby Track at OSCON (126 words)
So this is how it goes.
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Any? and All? for MySQL (108 words)
Seisyll Wyn sends in a tidy MySQL hack:
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Sparklines for Minimalists (2360 words)
If you’ve read Joe Gregorio’s Sparklines in data: URIs in Python, then you know that
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Holy Red Snakes! (222 words)
Gabriele Renzi wrote in about Guido van Rossum’s PEP #340 Anonymous Block Statements proposal
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Gonzui is Epic Soaring Birdflight Through RAA (280 words)
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New GC (86 words)
Translated from matz blog, 2005-04-22
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Attr for Classes (97 words)
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Undead.rb (66 words)
While browsing the bigbold collection of Ruby snips, a very interesting battle pitting Ruby’s
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Deploying Rails (145 words)
If you’re keeping your Rails application in a source code repository, Tobias Luetke has a
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SVN Bindings for Ruby (105 words)
Kouhei Sutou and Garrett Rooney have Subversion bindings for Ruby. Has anyone used these?
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Charlie the Smiling Fish is Chosen by Seven People, Continues Smiling (111 words)
The sad thing about this year’s International Obfuscated Ruby Code Contest is that there were -
Erb Caching in a Handful (154 words)
Dr. Eric Hodel has a brief class for caching compiled ERb templates. -
Seeing Metaclasses Clearly (160 words)
If you’re new to metaprogramming in Ruby and you’d like to start nursing a deep
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Seaside's Object-Oriented View Source (166 words)
So the world is in upheaval over their previous web frameworks and we can all cite examples of vocal
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Enumerate Side-by-side with SyncEnumerator (141 words)
Kenneth Kunz shined a light on the SyncEnumerator class, which comes with the standard library.
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Stop, For Blogging's Sake (152 words)
Blogging has mutated into simpler forms (specifically, link- and mob- and aud- and vid- variant)
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Housing Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 (114 words)
I have a laptop running Gentoo.
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YAML is JSON (229 words)
So, let’s presume you don’t use YAML because of its use of whitespace.
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HOWTO Rake (or) pls keep going jim! (208 words)
You should learn to Rake. I’ve been meaning to switch everything over for some time now. -
Over Object Class (137 words)
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Shugo's Ruby-Prof (113 words)
Hot tip from Jeremy Kemper on Ruby-Talk: -
Poignant as PDF (97 words)
Jim Fisher has rolled his own PDF of the current edition of the (Poignant) Guide.
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Discussions On Block Local Variable And Method Search Rule Of Ruby2 (88 words)
Sasada tai-tyou has collected Matz’s suggestions of Ruby21 from his -
Nobu Grades My Homework (749 words)
It’s like I’ve got these superintellegent falcons looking over my shoulders.
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Chipping Away At Hash Keys Reveals Human Futility (149 words)
For the last few days, the Hobix list has been stumped trying to uncover why Ruby keeps throwing up a
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Rewriting the Web with Greasemonkey, Rails and WEBrick (198 words)
Here’s a bountiful wellspring of hot chowdery ideas.
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Method Check: Date#succ (288 words)
Date#succ has saved the day for me in calendaring operations.
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Dwemthy's Array, a Ruby MINI_DUNGEON (109 words)
Do you really think you can defeat the drgn??
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Scripting Portupgrade with Ruby (288 words)
I guess it’s hard to top RubyX when it comes to an OS alliance with Ruby.
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Ruby 2.0 block local variable (360 words)
Translated from matz blog, 2005-03-09
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Cleaner Erb Syntax (131 words)
I know alot of you out there are using Erb syntax for your rthtml files in Rails.
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Category in Objective-C (160 words)
Translated from matz blog, 2005-03-04
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Object#blank? (428 words)
So, I’d like to submit Object#blank? as an RCR.
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C-Style For Loops Are Messed Up! (135 words)
After coding in Ruby for four years now, it’s finally beginning to dawn on me how syntactically
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Minimizing Row Displacement Dispatch Tables (261 words)
Translated from matz blog, 2005-02-21:
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Killer Hobix Tutorial (in English and French) (219 words)
Frederick Ros has done an incredible job thoroughly exploring the basics of Hobix (the blogging
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Whoa, SCRIPT_LINES__?! (161 words)
Did you know this? I had no idea.
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YAML in Cocoa (30 words)
Will Thimbleby has got Syck hooked up with Cocoa! Where do these people come from?
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Function Call (203 words)
Translated from matz blog, 2005-02-18:
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Using RedCloth 3 (605 words)
Yeah, I get a lot of e-mail about problems with RedCloth.
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Builder Singleton Hacks (273 words)
Those tinkling chimes you hear mean it’s time on RedHanded for special thanks to Jim Weirich
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Method Check: Param Hacks (144 words)
It’s all about finding out where Ruby’s syntax is flexible, isn’t it?
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Using Authentication with Open-uri (106 words)
Obviously big fans of open-uri around here.
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Rails on Lighttpd (with FreeBSD Instructions) (266 words)
Jason Hoffman of the red-friendly server farm TextDrive, has a thorough expository of one
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Frosted MiniColons (181 words)
It must have been around revision 1.260 of parse.y that colons came into expression play.
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RedCloth.swift? (110 words)
Alexey Verkhovsky, the new foreman on Instiki is helping pushing me from behind to get RedCloth 3. -
Rails and .Net in Perfect Harmony (203 words)
Now is a time for healing.
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The Best of method_missing (244 words)
I never use method_missing. Maybe twice.
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Daemonize (94 words)
Here’s one from an RAA dig a few weeks ago.
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One Small Serving of WebApp Tips (174 words)
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A Callcc w/ Dill Havarti and Ham (166 words)
An old one, but worth repeating if you’ve yet to understand continuations:
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Syck CVS is Buildable (194 words)
Allo, friends. Great news. The new Syck is buildable. Yes, it has some problems.
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Static Typing (210 words)
From Matz blog
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Search By Language and License (169 words)
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So, Mail Attachments (128 words)
A couple days ago, the topic was RubyMail. Dan Berger’s question was: how to do attachments. -
Reading Hal Fulton's The Ruby Way Online (166 words)
I recently got my hands on a copy of Hal Fulton’s The Ruby Way, published in 2002 by Sams
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Using Etags With Open-uri (352 words)
If you just joined us, we’re fawning over Tanaka-san’s code lately.
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Everyone Thinks Numeric Suffixes Are Neat Right Now (227 words)
And they are neat.
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Valgrind + Ruby (63 words)
Oh, one other bit from Tanaka-san: valgrind-ruby.
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Building YARV 0.1.0 (183 words)
Sasada Koichi just released his first proper version of his Ruby bytecode compiler and virtual
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Principle Of List Surprise (63 words)
Two array-related behaviors that took me off-guard this week.
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Futurism: Unicode In Ruby (111 words)
When asked about the future of Unicode in Ruby 1.9/2.
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Serializing To Ruby Code (151 words)
Amid a discussion on the list about XML v. YAML (hope they declare a winner!) -
Torching Yer Werdprreyss Blahhg (41 words)
Huh, wordpress-to-hobix.rb just got here. It’s got a lever!!
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MP3 Encoding From A Great Distance (109 words)
Okay, focus. We’re lookin for more real-world tutorials, remember?
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YAML 1.1 Working Draft (551 words)
Hey, look what you didn’t know was coming: YAML 1.1.
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DRb & instance_eval (130 words)
There is a nice, little, documented security hole in DRb.
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Method Check: defined? (417 words)
How would it be if, today, I blew you away with a Ruby keyword, huh?
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Officialized PaginationHelper (138 words)
Regarding the story last week on the PaginationHelper for Rails, its author has updated the code and
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SQLite3 Tremors (78 words)
SQLite3 is fast upon us.
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Centralized Logging With WEBrick (320 words)
WEBrick is sittin pretty. We owe it dearly.
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Automating Your Rails Upgrade (138 words)
If you’re going to be upgrading from Rails 0.8.5 to 0.9. -
Method Check: String#sum (168 words)
String#sum( n = 16 ) computes an n-bit checksum for a string.
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A Pagination Helper For Rails (261 words)
Looking for some quick pagination for your Rails application?
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