http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ http://swik.net/Ruby%2FO%26%23039%3BReilly+Ruby+Blog Ruby Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:09:19 -0800 Wed, 21 Dec 2005 01:09:19 -0800 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Becoming+a+Sexy+Programmer%3A+Menus/cgiab There are many ways that you can create menus for your website. The way I used to do it was by using tables and having a menu item for every menu item. This way I had come to find out... Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:14:25 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Becoming+a+Sexy+Programmer%3A+Slideshows/cf50h As a Rails programmer, I have been using Prototype and Scriptaculous for over a year and a half, solely because it comes packages with Rails and has helpers. About 3 months ago, I discovered JQuery, which is another Javascript library... Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:12:18 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Becoming+a+Sexy+Programmer%3A+Slideshows/cf4mr As a Rails programmer, I have been using Prototype and Scriptaculous for over a year and a half, solely because it comes packages with Rails and has helpers. About 3 months ago, I discovered JQuery, which is another Javascript library... Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:12:09 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Sexy+layouts+for+the+not-so-sexy+programmer/cfvjb I've worked with a ton of programmers in the past, and most of them don't know a lot about web design. My brother, for example, is an insanely good programmer. However, every time I see his web applications, I have... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:12:01 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Simplify+your+error+tracking+with+HopToad/ce01c I recently ran in to a blog article which referenced an online application called HopToad (http://www.hoptoadapp.com). HopToad is an online application that plugs directly into your Rails application and collects all errors that are thrown in your app in a... Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:03:55 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Polygamous+assert_latest/cdz88 Polygamous and explicitly-associated assert_latest{} blocks work great in integration tests and end-to-end tests. Short test cases must call a whole lot of code, and then assert that all of it created only the correct output records. assert_latest{} lets you list exactly what you expect, without redundant lines in your test case, just to look up and inspect the created records. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:00:27 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Inspect+My+SQL/cdxcp inspect_sql helps one of TDD's major strengths. It helps tests make your code's internals more visible. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:00:57 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Growl+Driven+Development/cdwfn Using Whisper Driven Development, you type a little, you hit a button to save all files (we configured F5), and you keep typing. When you hear "yeah", you know your last save contained good code - according to your tests! Any edits you make since then are questionable. So, like good TDD zealots, you start hitting the test button more often. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:00:40 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Ruby+Mendicant+%3A+Prawn%27s+First+Release%21/cbpvy I'm happy to announce I just cut the first alpha release of Prawn. It is chock full of features, and since the release notes are fairly detailed with good links, I've just pasted them for your review after the cut.... Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:07:55 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Ruby+Mendicant%3A+Permian+Prawn/b9r2g I'm happy to announce that the Prawn PDF library has hit another milestone on the Ruby Mendicant project roadmap. This time we'll look at Prawn's shiny new table drawing support, as well as some of the other features that have... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:46:15 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Ruby+Mendicant%3A+Proterozoic+Prawn/b6s47 Continuing on a theme, this post brings you the latest news from Prawn, the Ruby PDF library currently being developed under the auspices of the Ruby Mendicant project. The news this time around focuses on m17n progress, TTF font embedding,... Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:02:30 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/A+quick+Ruby+hack+to+steal+some+OS+X+goodness/b6pyc I really like the open command on OS X, but I was too lazy to look for its Linux equivalent. Actually, my solution probably took less time than sifting through a google search: system(case ARGV[0] when /\.pdf/ "epdfview" when /\.html/... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:04:18 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Ruby+Mendicant%3A+Archaean+Prawn/b5wcw Several weeks ago I wrote about the first development checkpoint for Prawn, the PDF library currently being developed for the Ruby Mendicant project. I've finally reached the second checkpoint, which involves basic text rendering operations, and this post describes these... Mon, 26 May 2008 20:12:48 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Is+QWERTY+harming+language+design%3F/b4zen One of the rather unique features of the Fortress1 programming language is that it has builtin support for Unicode operators. For example, instead of using "==" you would use U+2261. After reading the spec, and a recent thread on ruby-core,... Sun, 11 May 2008 22:12:26 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Ruby+Mendicant%3A+Hadean+Prawn/b4trn Back in March, I announced the Ruby Mendicant project after several readers of this blog encouraged me to pursue the idea. For those who didn't see the follow up details elsewhere, here's the readers digest version: Thanks to 70 donors,... Sat, 03 May 2008 11:10:00 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Surprising+Contender%3A+NetBeans+as+a+Ruby%2BMySQL+IDE/b4sgk I'm sure you don't believe it, doesn't seem like NetBeans is going to take the Ruby developer world by storm, but Sun seems to be pouring money into Ruby support. I'm skeptical that the Ruby community is going to embrace... Thu, 01 May 2008 16:09:23 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Help+Lessig+Tag+Congress/b4sgj Sorry, it isn't entirely Ruby related... it is Python Django to be specific, but it is a message aimed at you ("the wiki-worker types") from Lawrence Lessig recruiting people to tag members of Congress at Change-Congress.org: Today we're launching the... Thu, 01 May 2008 16:09:23 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/A+Ruby+WTF/b4o09 While working on Prawn, I ran into this (not-so) fun little gotcha: >> 1.to_sym => nil >> 101241.to_sym => nil Anyone cool enough to tell me what this feature is all about? Update: I guess it isn't totally clear what... Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:29:25 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Help+Lessig+Tag+Congress/b4ofi Sorry, it isn't entirely Ruby related... it is Python Django to be specific, but it is a message aimed at you ("the wiki-worker types") from Lawrence Lessig recruiting people to tag members of Congress at Change-Congress.org: Today we're launching the... Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:22:06 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/Surprising+Contender%3A+NetBeans+as+a+Ruby%2BMySQL+IDE/b4n7r I'm sure you don't believe it, doesn't seem like NetBeans is going to take the Ruby developer world by storm, but Sun seems to be pouring money into Ruby support. I'm skeptical that the Ruby community is going to embrace... Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:21:59 -0700 http://swik.net/Ruby/O%27Reilly+Ruby+Blog/mod_rails+for+Apache+is+now+a+Reality/b38bk The long-awaited mod_rails for apache was released yesterday by Phusion, a Netherlands based IT company. As many of you have already done, I hopped on board to see how it worked and was amazed on how easy it was to... Sat, 12 Apr 2008 17:50:56 -0700