• Slim v1.2.0 released

    Updated: 2012-03-30 17:02:18
    Just released Slim v1.2.0 which includes support for dynamic attributes. Changes

  • RESTful thinking considered harmful

    Updated: 2012-03-30 16:23:36
    I wrote an article discussing how prioritizing RESTful design principles over designing for the process your app is supporting, can lead to bugs and security issues.

  • Global Hack Day #3, Thursday April 5

    Updated: 2012-03-30 02:33:03
    RubyFlow The Ruby Community Blog Home Submit Sign Up Log In leaders Global Hack Day 3, Thursday April 5 Posted by seacreature on March 30, 2012 5 comments The idea of having weekly or monthly hack nights has worked great for Ruby users groups all over the world , but the folks at Mendicant University feel like the internet deserves a similar kind of event . Our next gathering is on Thursday April 5 from 18:00 02:00 UTC , in the mendicant channel on Freenode . Please join us if you can You can bring your own project to share and work on , or you can help others by offering code reviews and patches to their projects . For details , please see this Mendicant University community post Comments Hi , How are you hope you are fine and in perfect condition of health over there , My name is Kristy

  • Dancing with data, anyone?

    Updated: 2012-03-29 22:15:50
    Okay, again. This is not Ruby. However this could be very useful in conjunction with a Ruby Backend for the data. Dance.js is a data-driven visualization framework. It's basically a flavor of Backbone.js, but enriched with some of the ideas of the very popular D3.js visualization framework. Don't miss the Barchart Dance.

  • Solve online puzzles with Rubeque!

    Updated: 2012-03-29 19:56:14
    Over at Rake Routes I've written a blog post about Rubeque, the new Ruby puzzle site.

  • Help Yehuda Katz make Rails on OS X easy again! (on Kickstarter)

    Updated: 2012-03-29 05:01:54
    RubyFlow The Ruby Community Blog Home Submit Sign Up Log In leaders Help Yehuda Katz make Rails on OS X easy again on Kickstarter Posted by chaostheory on March 29, 2012 1 comment Yehuda wants to develop an easy to use and install Mac app , to help make Rails easy to develop with on the Mac again I am planning on taking some time off of work to work on this project . I will dedicate sustained effort until I can ship an initial release , and then dedicate a number of hours a week on the project during its initial bootstrapping phase . My goal is to use this time to transition the project over to maintenance by the community in the github rails organization . Check out the details on Kickstarter Comments Hi , How are you hope you are fine and in perfect condition of health over there , My

  • References to Methods in Ruby

    Updated: 2012-03-29 03:23:09
    Trick question: How do you take a reference to a method in Ruby?  It's a trick question because a method cannot exist on its on in Ruby.  Ruby doesn't have "function pointers."  You might guess that you can simply store the object and a symbol with the method name, and you'd be right.  Or a proc object that calls the method on the object, and again you'd be right.  But Ruby provides a better and more expressive solution.

  • master slave replication in rails

    Updated: 2012-03-28 14:42:47
    I just created a new post master slave replication in rails to introduce maser slave replication, how to use in rails, and the solution to replication lag.

  • Ruby Lugdunum 2012 - Ruby Conf in Lyon, France

    Updated: 2012-03-27 16:04:21
    Ruby Lugdunum (a.k.a Rulu) will be back on June 22 - 23 in Lyon, France. Rulu 2012 is a two-day single-track conference on Ruby featuring great talks, awesome food and time to hack together! CFPs are open and early bird tickets will be on sale on Tuesday! More infos on Rulu.eu.

  • Ruby On REST 5: Learn Hypermedia By Making Fruit Salad

    Updated: 2012-03-27 12:00:55
    Discussing the concept of REST and hypermedia we learn what is a hypermedia type, why HAL+JSON makes our life easier and how to fix a yummy fruit salad.

  • Generating Random Numbers in Ruby

    Updated: 2012-03-27 04:51:53
    While no computer program can generate truly random numbers (at least without the aid of an external source of entropy), Ruby does provide easy access to a pseudorandom number generated (PRNG).  With this, you can generate a sequence of numbers (typically integers) that will seem random to any human being.  This can be particularly useful in simulations and games, and occasionally useful in unit tests.

  • Cryptographic Hashes in Ruby

    Updated: 2012-03-27 04:49:17
    Cryptographic hashes (not to be confused with key/value pair hashes) can be useful for checking the integrity of a file and to store passwords for authentication purposes.  While Ruby does provide native support for a few algorithms natively, a much more useful and complete set of algorithms are provided via the OpenSSL library.

  • Where's _why?

    Updated: 2012-03-15 20:30:46
    It's been a long time since Why the lucky stiff (AKA _why) left us in 2009, without a peep from him leaving the entire Ruby community to scramble and wonder why someone so great and who gave us so much great stuff (Hpricot, Hackety Hack, Shoes, Camping, Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby, Try Ruby, and the list goes on) would leave so suddenly.  If you weren't part of the community pre-2009, it's just so hard to imagine how much of a character this guy really way.  Long story short, he was great and now he's gone....Read Full Post

  • Ruby Programming 32nd Batch: Registrations now open

    Updated: 2012-03-12 00:43:47
    Registrations are now open for RubyLearning’s popular Ruby programming course. This is an intensive, online course for beginners that helps you get started with Ruby programming. Here is what Sandra Randall (Butler), a participant who just graduated, has to say – “You kindly offered me the opportunity to join your Ruby course. I’m new to [...] (Powered by LaunchBit)

  • Password Security Primer

    Updated: 2012-03-11 22:12:07
    With all of the security breaches lately (I'm thinking specifically about the Sony intrusion, as well as a few other gaming sites), password security is a topic you might want to brush up on.  There is a right way and and wrong way to store your authentication information.  If your site is compromised and an attacker makes off with your password database, it's your users that will suffer.  And it's not a hard thing to fix, so you really should be learning as much as you can about password security.

  • Base64 in Ruby

    Updated: 2012-03-07 03:50:03
    Base64 is a way to represent binary data in an ASCII form.  It's used to do things like email files (the email protocols like SMTP and POP are ASCII-only), send binary data in URLs, it's used in HTTP itself, etc.  Ruby provides a few easy methods to encode and decode Base64 data, as well as providing the functionality as part of the String#pack and String#unpack methods.

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