Archive for the ‘ ruby ’ Category
Getting ImageMagick onto your computer would be so incredibly difficult I would often just forgo the entire thing and pray that image manipulation would sort of work on the server. Well, no more. Claudio Poli has written a great bash script to install the whole thing with one command. Clone this repo and execute it. [ READ MORE ]
Every tech blog should have a post about a Twitter client. Here’s mine. To be fair, my client has only eight seven lines of code, so it rocks. [ READ MORE ]
Do you know what pagination links are? They are at the bottom of web pages and allow you to scroll to a next page, and scroll back when you’re at some deep-linked page. In Rails development, you use something called Will Paginate. It has a default set of pagination links, and sometimes these just won’t [ READ MORE ]
Sorry for the acronym soup, but part of my job is research and development of new website building techniques. I have found a neat and fast way of maintaining websites in the nanoc + haml + vlad combo. [ READ MORE ]
Try Googling for the title of this post! A lot has been said about using Ruby to connect to your gmailbox. In short: with Ruby 1.8 you can’t. With Ruby 1.9 it’s broken. This post led me to the right path. [ READ MORE ]
or “why I love unit tests”. An ode to agile software development. [ READ MORE ]
A post like this one is the stuff of dreams. A guy starts coding a project because he believes in it. It starts to become a success, but his employer is bought by Microsoft. Microsoft offers the guy a huge salary to retain him as an employee. Guy declines. Guy follows his heart and builds [ READ MORE ]
Every day the power of the Ruby programming language amazes me. It makes programming so much simpler. Example. [ READ MORE ]
When connecting to services and APIs, I tend to follow the rule that simpler is always better. SOAP is one of these services where you don’t need any more complexity than strictly required. This post eventually led me on the right path. [ READ MORE ]
For all the apparent ‘l33tness’ the rcov tool is in a pretty sad state. Unusable, even. I get bus errors all the time and I know from experience I am not the only one. Why was this a good tool to use? [ READ MORE ]
