Tag: ruby
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BBC News... without the sport
A lightweight Ruby program to republish the BBC News RSS feed... but without the sports articles.
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Linda Liukas, Hello Ruby and the magic of coding
Linda Liukas's best-selling Hello Ruby books teach children that computers are fun and coding can be a magical experience.
BBC News
See the original article to watch a great video interview with Linda Liukas. Linda is the founder of Rails Girls and author of a number of books encouraging children to learn computer programming (which … -
The Ruby Story
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By 2005, Ruby had become more popular, but it was still not a mainstream programming language. That changed with the release of Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails was the “killer app” for Ruby, and it did more than any other project to popularize Ruby. After the release of Ruby on Rails, interest in Ruby … -
Why it is just lazy to bad-mouth Ruby on Rails
It's inevitable these days: we will see an article proclaiming the demise of Ruby on Rails every once in a while. It's the easiest click bait, like this one from TNW.Now, you may say "another Ruby fanboy." That's fair, but a terrible argument, as it's a poor and common argumentum ad hominem. And on the …
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Rails is f*cking boring! I love it.
Together with a friend I recently built Dropshare Cloud. We offer online storage for the file and screenshot sharing app Dropshare for macOS/iOS. After trying out Django for getting started (we both had some experience using Django) I decided to rewrite the codebase in Rails. My past experience developing in Rails made the process quick — and …
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15 Weird Things About Ruby That You Should Know
Ruby is an amazing language with a lot of interesting details that you may not have seen before...
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What Does Jack FM Sound Like?
Does Jack FM, Dan's favourite local radio station, always play the same old stuff? Let's find out with the help of some data mining...
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Ruby is still great! · Hendrik Mans
I realized something today:
Ruby is still great.
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks digging into some of the newer/fancier/shinier technologies that have been in the limelight of the development world lately – specifically Elixir, Phoenix and Elm – and while I’ve thoroughly enjoyed them all (and instantly had a bunch of fun ideas for things … -
Non-Rails Frameworks in Ruby: Cuba, Sinatra, Padrino, Lotus
It’s common for a Ruby developer to describe themselves as a Rails developer. It’s also common for someone’s entire Ruby experience to be through Rails. Rails began in 2003 by David Heinemeier Hansson, quickly becoming the most popular web framework and also serving as an introduction to Ruby for many developers.
Rails is great. I use … -
My Favourite Ruby (am I doing this right?)
[this post was originally made to a private subreddit]
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The Hardest Hangman
What's the hardest possible word to guess in Hangman? Many have wondered, but Dan felt the need to find out for sure.
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Too Ruby
If the Ruby programming language were a chef, it would make the best tie dyed cakes in the world. Sadly, it isn't, but it still makes for some mighty "readable" code.
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Kitty
~$ sudo gem install kitty
Successfully installed kitty-0.0.2
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for kitty-0.0.2...
Installing RDoc documentation for kitty-0.0.2...
~$ kitty
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(. \
\ |
\ |___(\--/)
__/ ( . . )
"'._. '-.O.'
'-. \ "|\
'.,,/'.,,
~$ kitty
/\_/\
/\ / o o \
//\\ \~(*)~/
` \/ ^ /
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\ '|| ||
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Hiding In Plain "Site"
I've written a program called PicInHTML, which makes web pages with concealed images which are shown when text on the page is selected. What's clever about these page are how they work: they're a single file, with no dependence on images nor Javascript, and they work by leveraging the little-used ::selected CSS selector. Each individual …
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SSL Client Certificate Authentication In Ruby On Rails
I've been playing with using client-side SSL certificates (installed into your web browser) as a means to authenticate against a Ruby on Rails-powered application. This subject is geeky and of limited interest even to the people who read this blog (with the possible exception of Ruth, who may find herself doing exactly this as part …