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Object Construction and Blocks
Say you have a class with methods used to set its state. You want to be able to provide state inform...
Mutual Exclusion
Ruby's built-in threads are both useful and easy to use. However, if your threads need to communica...
Object-Oriented Regular Expressions
Start using Ruby's regular expressions, and you'll soon come across a whole menagerie of weird-loo...
Calling Methods Dynamically
C and Java programmers often find themselves writing some kind of dispatch table: do specific proces...
Ruby and the Web
Ruby is no stranger to the Internet. Not only can you write your own SMTP server, FTP daemon, or Web...
Distributed Ruby
Since we can serialize an object or a set of objects into a form suitable for out-of-process storage...
Ajax on Rails--part 2
Using form_remote_tag The form_remote_tag() helper is similar to link_to_remote() except that it als...
Ajax on Rails--part 1
In a few short months, Ajax has moved from an obscure and rarely used technology to the hottest thin...
PHP vs Ruby on Rails, Part 3
In part 1 of our series we explained how PHP is just a language, not a framework; in part 2 we talke...
PHP vs Ruby on Rails, Part 2
In part 1 we explained how PHP is just a language, yet we never really talked about Ruby , the langu...
PHP vs Ruby on Rails, Part 1
Over the last few weeks, I¡¯ve been asked by both friends and clients, ¡°So what is that thing calle...
Why Rails
WhyRails? Just look at the follow pic! and also...
LightTPD Launchd Item for Tiger
Here is a launchd item that will automatically start-up (and keep alive) LightTPD built using the Hi...
Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger
What follows are instructions for manually building and installing the following applications on Mac...
Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up a tremendous head of steam over the last ye...
Crossing borders: What's the secret sauce in Ruby on Rails?
Ruby on Rails seems to be a lightning rod for controversy. At the heart of most of the controversy l...
Ruby off the Rails
Ruby on Rails is just one facet of what makes Ruby great, just like EJB is only part of the Java ent...
