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...
What I would’ve loved I had known when I first met Ruby
Motivation Everytime I’m learning a new language, the first thing I try to learn is how this new language implements OOP, and now it’s Ruby’s turn. Before joining the company, I had been playing with Java for some...