Crafting gems with jeweler
A few days ago I was just wondering what the best way to craft a Gem was, and I figured out it doesn't really matter. Any way you take will lead you to the same place, yet, I really liked an special way to do it: I found JEWELER....
Using rbenv to manage your rubies
While working with ruby, you have some alternatives to manage your binaries, but as you think of them, I hope you are not really considering delegating this task directly to your OS package manager since it is discouraged, otherwise...
One File Web Page with Rack
There are times when you need to quickly create small Ruby web applications. You can do that in many different ways like, creating a Rails, Sinatra or Rack application. I like Rack, it gives you more than enough tools to build a web...
How to Sinatra + Haml + Compass(SCSS) + Blueprint
Last week, I spent about half a day trying to get Sinatra working with Compass and Blueprint. At first, it was a pain in the ass because the documentation is pretty lame. But after some reading here and there and trying via command...
Building a basic DSL to create callbacks in Ruby
Do you know what a Domain Specific Language(DSL) is and how to implement one in Ruby?. This article aims to provide a slight introduction to this topic. It is divided in 3 sections, first we'll define what a DSL is, second we'll...
Improving your development life with Ruby Enterprise Edition
Have you ever wondered if you can do something to make your ruby development even faster? Are you tired of waiting for rspec to finish? Is your rails application eating more and more memory and you have to restart your app once in...
Rack Basics – A Rack Introduction
Rack provides a minimal interface between web servers supporting Ruby. It contains a full stack of middleware components. Using Rack middleware you can build applications that directly interact with a HTTP requests environment and...