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feedjira.com

Great gem to consume RSS feeds. I was missing some features on Ruby's RSS::Parser that I found in...

You know each_with_index from arrays: ['hello', 'universe'].each_with_index do |value, index| puts "#{index}: #{value}" end

So you have placed a breakpoint somewhere and now want to dig around, but not even inspecting variables is working...

makandra dev

Spreewald 1.1.0 drops the be_true and be_false matchers in order to be RSpec 3 and Ruby 2 compatible...

teohm.com

The attached post shows some alternative ways to define Strings in Ruby using the percent notation. This can be useful...

This actually works: class Klass def initialize `hi world` end def `(message) puts "Called with backticks: #{message}" end end

sysadmincasts.com

Like Railscasts or Ruby Tapas, but for Linux.

makandra dev
github.com

The debugger gem does not seem to be properly working on Ruby 2. Use byebug instead! Byebug is a simple...

If your requests blow up in Ruby or CURL, the server you're connecting to might only support requests with...

This card describes how to pass an array with multiple element to a JavaScript function, so that the first array...

In whenever you can schedule Ruby code directly like so: every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do runner "MyModel.task_to...

github.com

Provides a value container that guarantees atomic updates to this value in a multi-threaded Ruby program. Originally linked to...

Since Ruby 2.1, defining a method returns its name as a Symbol: def foo() end # => :foo define_method :foo do...

chriszetter.com

"Keyword arguments" allow naming method arguments (optionally setting a default value). By using the double-splat operator, you can collect...

makandra dev
github.com

Now supports Rails 4.1 and Ruby 2.1.

makandra dev

assignable_values now supports Rails 4.1 and Ruby 2.1.0.

Travis CI is a free continuous integration testing service. However, it is really fragile and will break more than it...

When you tell rbenv to install a Ruby it does not know about, you will get an error message.

makandra dev
github.com

EdgeRider 0.3.0 adds support for Rails 4.1 and Ruby 2.1. It forward-ports ActiveRecord::Base.scoped to Rails 4.1.

When you have a string containing umlauts which don't behave as expected (are not matched with a regexp, can...

So you want your Ruby script to install missing gems instead of dying? Take this method: def installing_missing_gems...

If you parse this Yaml ... yes: 'Totally' no: 'Nope' ... you get this Ruby hash: { true: 'Totally', false: 'Nope' }

You are probably using Ruby 1.8.7 with a too recent versions of Rubygems. Downgrade your Rubygems to the latest version...

makandra dev
tldp.org

There are 3 built-in file descriptors: stdin, stdout and stderr (std=standard). (You can define your own, see the...